Drawing on experience as a high school and junior high school teacher; university admissions, enrollment, and recruitment director; and community college student services vice president, Kevin is an advocate for college access and student service quality initiatives. Under his leadership, St. Clair formed high school partnerships for early college and middle college programs; joined Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national organization that helps community colleges identify strategies to improve student success, close achievement gaps, and increase retention, persistence, and completion rates; and was awarded a five-year TRiO Student Support Services grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help disadvantaged students succeed in higher education. Kevin has presented more than 70 sessions at conferences and colleges and written more than a dozen articles and book chapters on topics such as at-risk students, continuous quality improvement, mentoring, retention, strategic planning, and student success. He holds a doctorate in higher, adult, and lifelong education from Michigan State University.
Lucie Lapovsky is an economist who consults, writes, and speaks widely on issues related to higher education finance, strategy, governance, and enrollment management. She also specializes in searches for chief financial officers and writes and speaks on issues related to women’s leadership. Her clients include public and private colleges and universities throughout the United States and various companies and organizations throughout the world. Recent CFO searches have been conducted for University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Drew University, Sarah Lawrence College, Saint Mary’s College in Indiana, Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, and Portland State University in Oregon. In addition, she is actively engaged in research on tuition discounting and cost containment in higher education. She served as president of Mercy College, a multi-campus institution of 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students with campuses in New York City, Westchester, and online from 1999 to 2004. Lucie has almost thirty years of experience in higher education finance in both the public and private sectors of higher education. Prior to coming to Mercy College, she served as vice president for finance at Goucher College, and worked at the University of Maryland at College Park, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the Maryland State Department of […]
Dennis has led the University of South Carolina’s Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support since 1983. He earned his doctorate in education from Carolina, his master’s degree in counseling/student personnel services from West Georgia College and his bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Armstrong Atlantic State University. Dennis has received numerous national, regional, state, and university awards; he most recently received the Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Service as a Dean at the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education annual meeting. This is his fourth award from NASPA.
Ray has numerous national presentations and publications in online and technology-enhanced learning to his name, and he has published the popular Online Learning Update and Educational Technology blogs for the past decade. Ray was a Sloan Consortium Distinguished Scholar in Online Learning 2002-03, recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the “Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual,” University of Southern Maine “Visiting Scholar in Online Learning” 2006-09, and co-founder of the New Century Learning Consortium. Most recently, he was named the inaugural 2010 recipient of the Sloan Consortium’s highest individual award – the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award. Ray is an inaugural Sloan Consortium Fellow.
Dr. Jennifer Jones is currently an adjunct faculty at Minnesota State University, Mankato and works with colleges and universities with the implementation of early alert systems. Previously, Jennifer was a clinical assistant professor of higher education at the University of Alabama and also served as the director of academic retention at UA for three years. In that role, she evaluated student retention data to create, implement, and manage appropriate support programs for first-year students struggling to acclimate to campus life, primarily managing a Web-based retention program designed to engage first-year students in an online community and connect them with campus resources and information. Additionally, Jennifer garnered significant work experience in residential life and university development through positions at the College of William and Mary, Hamline University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Eastern Illinois.
Andrew came to Cornell in early 2010 to spearhead the integration of social media and mobile technology into the division’s strategic plan. Previously, Andrew spent eight years with the Princeton University Alumni Association in a number of diverse roles. He sits on the CASE Commission on Alumni Relations, co-chairs the CASE Task Force on Social Media, and will chair the 2011 CASE Social Media & Community conference. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University.
Frances Mueller is an assistant vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs at the University of Michigan, responsible for overseeing space management and capital planning for the Ann Arbor campus on behalf of the Office of the Provost and the executive vice president for academic affairs. Prior to this role, she was the project manager for the University of Michigan Space Utilization Initiative, a multi-year, campus-wide initiative that established institutional policies, business practices, systems, and creative solutions to manage general fund space more effectively, slow building growth, and contain space-related operating expenses. Frances has worked for the University of Michigan for several years in leadership roles emphasizing change management, business process improvement, and policy development, and has broad, campus-wide experience and perspective from working in the Business and Finance Division, Division of Student Affairs, and currently, the Office of the Provost.
Robert C. Dickeson provides counsel from multiple leadership perspectives: chair of the governor’s cabinets in two states, university president, business CEO, and foundation executive. Dickeson served as the director of the department of administration and chair of the cabinet of Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt; and chief of staff, executive director of the office of state planning and budget, and chair of the cabinet of Colorado Gov. Roy Romer. He served in administrative posts at three universities and was president of the University of Northern Colorado from 1981-91. He served as president and CEO of Noel-Levitz Centers Inc., division president of USA Enterprises Inc., and senior vice president of USA Group Inc., heading the USA Group Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, he was co-founder and senior vice president of Lumina Foundation for Education. While at Lumina Foundation, he led the national initiative on college costs, based on his monograph, Collision Course: Rising College Costs Threaten America’s Future and Require Shared Solutions (Lumina Foundation, 2004). His book, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999, 2010) was based on his extensive consulting experiences including serving several hundred two- and four-year colleges (private and public) and corporations ranging from hospitals to bank holding […]
