Director, Academic & Community Engagement
Principal Investigator, IME Becas Grant
Office locationDunlap-Mathis, 129A,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: Ethnic Identity Development; Multicultural Student Affairs; Fraternity and Sorority Life; Student Development & Involvement; Housing & Residence Life; Migrant Education; Latinx and diverse student issues in higher education; student recruitment, retention, & success programs.
Dr. Christian Bello Escobar (Dr. CBE) [two-word unhyphenated last name] was born in Acapulco, Mexico, and has lived most of his life in the Atlanta metro area. He arrived at UNG in early 2014 and served in various roles in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs until late 2015, when he became the director of the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP).
In 2016, he took leadership of the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) and became the inaugural UNG director of Migrant [Federal Student Success] Programs and Services. Both programs are funded through the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Migrant Education, and administered through UNG’s University College. He rewrote the CAMP grant in 2020 and the HEP grant in 2021. As a result, he received both HEP and CAMP grant renewals totaling $4.5 million to continue to serve the migrant, seasonal, and temporary farmworkers of the north Georgia region.
Before arriving at UNG, he worked in Undergraduate Admissions at Georgia State University (2009-2011), at the University of West Georgia (2011-2013), and at Indiana University – Bloomington (2013-2014), both in Housing and Residence Life.
He currently serves in two capacities within the University System of Georgia. He is the Director of Academic & Community Engagement for the College of Education (COE) and the Principal Investigator for the IME Becas grant at UNG. The IME Becas is a grant program implemented by the government of Mexico to support low-income Latinx students living in the United States who are completing basic education, higher education, or technological careers. In the COE role, he establishes and supports initiatives to increase COE student success through Student Case Management and first-year student services while building and maintaining partnerships to increase the COE’s enrollment, outreach, fund development, and student engagement. He also serves as an adjunct faculty of Teacher Education and Psychology for Georgia Highlands College.