Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez

Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez is the associate vice president for Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness at Broward College. Rincones-Gómez oversees the institution's research, planning and effectiveness processes to help improve student access, engagement, retention and completion while helping to address the factors that impact student success and designing specific interventions and/or policy to assist the College's students.

Rincones-Gómez comes to Broward College from Achieving the Dream, Inc. (ATD) where he served as the national director of data coaching and was responsible for directing all aspects of ATD's data coaching, including recruiting, training, and mentoring a team of more than 30 senior data coaches. He has more than 16 years of national and international leadership experience working with student success, assessment, strategic planning, and evaluation-related projects from the private, nonprofit and higher education sectors.

He has been awarded with several honors and educational scholarships at the national and international level. He has also written a variety of publications in Spanish, English, and Chinese on leadership, organizational engineering, and evaluation approaches that bring stakeholder groups together. In addition, he has significant teaching experience at the developmental, undergraduate and graduate levels.

He earned his Ph.D. in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design receiving a Provost's Special Recognition and an Outstanding Dissertation Award by Phi Delta Kappa Honor Society. Also, as part of his educational background, he earned his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and his Specialist and Master's degrees in Project Management in Engineering with Summa Cum Laude Honors. Furthermore, he received a President's Special Recognition for his second Master's degree in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design.