As Vice President for Diversity, Mary Ontiveros reports to the President and leads Colorado State’s diversity efforts. Her duties include leading diversity planning, assessment, evaluation, accountability, and developing strategic alliances and partnerships. She coordinates activities among on-campus units, commissions, committees, and task forces; she also represents the University through networking and collaboration with outside communities, schools, and organizations. An alumna of CSU, Mary has served in leadership positions including Executive Director of Admissions, an affiliate faculty member in the School of Education and as Associate Vice President in the Division of Enrollment & Access. She chairs numerous university committees, councils and task forces aimed at advancing an institutional agenda for inclusive excellence. Mary chairs the University’s Consultation Team for Incidents of Bias, the President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Inclusive Physical and Virtual Campus Committee that was instrumental in passing an institutional policy aimed at addressing universal design. As VPD she spearheaded the development of the institution’s Principles of Community. She is co-founder of the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Diversity officers in Higher Education and is active at the national level of that organization. She serves on the steering committee of CoCEAL (Colorado […]
Rob has more than twenty years of experience providing marketing communications counsel and creative services for the nonprofit and higher education sectors. He is known nationally for his role in advancing the understanding and validity of effective marketing and branding practices in higher education. Rob is a frequent presenter at national conferences, a leading contributor to industry periodicals including CASE Currents and AGB Trusteeship, and manager of the nation’s only survey of marketing practices in higher education.
Dave Newport is director of the Environmental Center at the University of Colorado Boulder — the nation’s first, largest, and most accomplished center of its kind. Dave chairs the university’s Carbon Neutrality Working Group, led the creation of CU’s climate action plan, and is a faculty associate in the Environmental Studies department, where he teaches a course in carbon neutrality planning for higher education. He is secretary of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and is one of the three original co-creators of the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Ratings System, or STARS, that is emerging as higher education’s gold standard for assessing campus sustainability. Dave led the University of Colorado team that compiled the nation’s first STARS Gold sustainability assessment award last year. CU has also been ranked as the nation’s No. 1 green campus by Sierra magazine, and is consistently rated among the nations greenest campus by an array of other ranking systems.
Nell Fry is a recent graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. After receiving her Bachelor of Science in business management, she began her work with Georgia Tech Dining Services as its first full-time sustainability coordinator. This opportunity has allowed Nell to work with stakeholders across campus and throughout Atlanta to create more sustainable dining services for students on the GT campus. During her time as a student at Georgia Tech, Nell served as the president of Students Organizing for Sustainability and the head of the Sustainable Dining Committee. Throughout her time at Tech, she worked on a variety of projects regarding sustainable food on campus such as: operating a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA), helping the Georgia Tech Earth Day event move toward zero waste, and starting a campus garden.
Margaret has worked in the Center for International Programs at Kalamazoo College for over ten years in a variety of positions. Currently, she manages the Kalamazoo study abroad programs in China, France, India, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Thailand. Margaret received her BA in international studies from Emory University and a PhD in educational leadership, research, and technology from Western Michigan University. Her interest and passion for international education began with her experience living, working, and studying in Berlin for four years. Professional interests include promoting non-traditional study abroad sites, short-term study abroad programming, international service learning projects, and conducting research about the impact and experience of study abroad on US college students. Other AI contributions: Evacuation Planning Procedures for Study Abroad Emergencies
Known to many as the “FERPA Princess,” Ms. Garrett is a popular speaker at industry conferences on the topic of FERPA and she has recently served as the President of PACRAO (Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers). Her professional career began at the University of Southern California as an admissions counselor. She also worked for Whittier College, moving up through assistant and associate directors of admissions and director of recruitment positions. In 1996, she became associate director of admissions at the University of Oregon and took a position at Lane Community College in 2000 as director of enrollment services. This position turned into the associate dean of student affairs, enrollment, and student financial services in 2008. Garrett served as the executive dean of student affairs at Lane Community College from 2010-2012 and recently returned to her enrollment services roots for her current position.
At the University of Iowa, Dr. Beckett works with living-learning communities and retention efforts. He previously served as associate dean of students at Miami University and coordinator of freshmen interest groups at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Missouri-Columbia, an M.A. in higher education from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in mathematics from Truman State University.
Kathy has served students in many roles—starting as a hall council leader and resident assistant through to her current position. Her responsibilities include ensuring that the on-campus living environment promotes the academic success and personal growth of its students. Within that role she has the opportunity to work with academic and student affairs partners on Clemson’s nationally recognized living-learning communities. Prior to her tenure at Clemson, Kathy held positions at the University of Florida and Albion College. Kathy’s special interests include mentoring, deconstructing student learning, and conducting research and presenting on the subject of professional development. Passionate about service to our professional associations, she has held positions on the Executive Boards of state, regional, national and international Associations, including ACUHO-I.
Prior to her UVA appointment, Dr. Inkelas was an associate professor and program director of the College Student Personnel Program, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland. Karen is the principal investigator for the National Study of Living-Learning Programs (NSLLP), which was awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), the Association of College and University Housing Officers International (ACUHO-I), and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). The NSLLP studies student outcomes associated with participation in college living-learning programs, and the 2007 NSLLP data collection included more than 50 postsecondary institutions across the United States, and more than 20,000 undergraduate respondents in over 600 living-learning programs. Karen has published numerous articles and book chapters on living-learning programs, and has spoken about her research in both invited and refereed presentations around the United States. In addition to her work with living-learning programs, Karen’s other research interests focus on the study of relationships between college environments and student outcomes. Karen obtained her B.A. and M.S. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) at the University of Michigan. She also developed […]
Scott is the academic staff member most responsible for the creation of the Chadbourne Residential College at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also helped develop two other UW-Madison residential learning communities — the International Learning Community and Bradley Learning Community. Scott has helped create many of the residentially based cross-campus academic collaborations most focused on supporting student learning at UW-Madison, including cross-college advising centers in the residence halls, class sections taught in the residence halls, and tutoring in the residence halls. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the educational leadership and policy analysis program at Madison.
