Individual Award

Hilda Meija Abreu, Ph.D., is the associate dean for admissions, student life and inclusivity for MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, or CVM, acting as a catalyst for change and new initiatives promoting evidence based practice in enrollment management, student affairs and diversity, equity and inclusion. She is responsible for streamlining the infrastructure to enhance student affairs, club activities and scholarships and is chair on the Committee on Student Admissions and serves ex-officio on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.

Abreu has overseen many changes to CVM processes and programs including the addition of DEI into the search committee process, leading difficult discussions about DEI in annual assessment and promotion criteria, supporting efforts to recruit underrepresented minorities to the veterinary school and empowering student clubs to address DEI at the ground level. She also helped develop the 2016-22 DEI Strategic Plan, the first ever implemented within CVM, which has now elevated and prioritized DEI initiatives in the new CVM and MSU strategic plans that will carry the college into the next decade and beyond.