As the Executive Director she is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating programs and training activities on human relations, with particular emphasis on diversity, equity, and intergroup communication issues. Bouis also serves as internal consultant and resource person on race relations, Asian American community issues, and multicultural organizational development to individuals, campus units and student organizations. She was Co-Director of the Diversity Initiative, a campus-wide institutionalized effort to build a more inclusive learning community. The Diversity Initiative has been a nationally recognized model program by the Ford Foundation, the American Council on Education and by President Clinton's Initiative on Race. She initiated the highly successful campus Intergroup Dialogue Program (IDP) designed to help members of social identity groups with a history of conflict or potential conflict to build mutual understanding. She is a faculty advisor to the UMCP Asian American Student Union and the past President of the Asian Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Student Association, organizations which she founded. She is currently the chair of the President's Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues (PCEMI). This Commission advises the University President on issues of concern to ethnic minority groups on campus. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 1984, Bouis was affiliated with Stanford University as a researcher, community outreach coordinator, and instructor in the Special Languages Department.

At the University of Maryland, College Park, Ms. Bouis received the Outstanding Advisor Award (1993); Asian Achievement Award for Outstanding Service (1992, 1993, 1994); the Woman of Color Award (1995, 2006) for outstanding contributions to the minority community; and the Outstanding Associate Staff Award (1996) presented at the Faculty and Staff Convocation in October, 1996.

Gloria Bouis can be reached at (301) 405-2842 and through email at gbouis@umd.edu .