For over twenty-five years Ashlyn W. Sowell has enjoyed a career in development. Her first position was as Director of Development for The Children’s House at Johns Hopkins and The Grant-A-Wish Foundation (now known as the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation). From there she moved to her alma mater, Duke University, serving as Annual Fund Director at The Fuqua School of Business and a Major Gift Officer at the Medical Center during Duke’s $2 billion campaign. In 2006, Ashlyn joined the development staff at Gettysburg College where she held several key positions. As Associate Vice President for Development & Campaign Director, Ashlyn led the planning, leadership, and public phases of Gettysburg’s $150 million campaign, working closely with the president and board of trustees. Her move back to Johns Hopkins as Senior Director of Development for the Department of Medicine and the Heart & Vascular Institute in 2015 took her career full circle back to working in health care with grateful patients during the Rising to the Challenge Campaign. In 2018, she accepted a newly created role to work closely with Donor and Volunteer Engagement, Special Events, and Donor Communications and to begin planning for the institution’s next campaign. She is […]
As a principal with NelsonNygaard Consulting Associates, a transportation planning firm devoted to the creation of livable communities, Patrick has led the development of innovative transportation plans for numerous universities, cities, downtowns, and transit-oriented developments. His campus planning work includes transportation plans and studies for University of California, Berkeley; Pomona College; Fuller Seminary; California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; and California State University, San Marcos. He also served as lead transportation planner on the Occidental College Master Plan team; the resulting plan received the 2007 Merit Award for Excellence in Planning for an Established Campus from the Society for College and University Planning and the American Institute of Architects. With his colleagues Jeffrey Tumlin and Adam Millard-Ball, he is the author of “Solving Campus Parking Shortages: New Solutions for an Old Problem” (published in Planning for Higher Education, Society for College and University Planning). Patrick’s work is characterized by careful cost-benefit analysis, and recognition that transportation plans must support wider community goals, rather than seeing transportation as an end in itself. In addition to his work as a practitioner, he has also taught the American Institute of Certified Planners’ short courses on parking management.
Marty plays a significant role in strategic IT planning, metrics, and organizational improvement efforts within the Office of Information Technologies, and across campus at the University of Notre Dame. He has presented at numerous conferences and seminars, and taught courses on organization development throughout the United States. His latest book, Don’t Manage…Coach (2016) is a great complement to his other books:The Professional Development Toolbox: Unlocking simple truths (2014), Metrics: How to Improve Key Business Results (2011), and Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity (2009), a book which delves into the difficulties organizations have with enterprise-wide change, He has written on IT metrics for EDUCAUSE Quarterly, EdTech, and Cutter Consortium. Marty is also president of the Consortium for the Establishment of Information Technology Performance Standards.
Rebecca Bernstein, of University at Buffalo Communications, serves as UB’s Web strategist and spearheaded the creation of the University at Buffalo’s Web Team, which is responsible for developing and managing UB’s digital presence, including its externally focused, top-level Web, social media, and mobile presences. Ms. Bernstein has been with the University at Buffalo since 1981 and has been involved in its Web presence since 1994. She has been recognized nationally for her design and Web work with more than She just recently received a Gold award from CASE, which was her 100th award, more Web development awards than any other higher ed institution. Awarded recognition includes the grand gold for interactive media from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Best University Web Site from the Web Marketing Association, IBM Best Practices Partner (for MyUB, UB’s student services portal), and inclusion of her work in collections of best-designed websites. Ms. Bernstein’s vision has been written about in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Educause, CASE Currents, Web Content Management, and other media, and she has lectured at national conferences, most recently at the ADAPE conference as a keynote speaker.
As senior online academic advisor at Webster University, Tyann works primarily with graduate students and coordinates workload and communications for a staff of full-time and adjunct advisors. Tyann is also an adjunct faculty member of the School of Communications. An expert in the field of online advising, she is the current chair of the Distance Education Advising Commission and sits on the Webinar Advisory Board for NACADA National Academic Advising Association.
Ms. Lanza-Gladney has presented at both regional and national conferences on advising, and recently co-wrote an article for NACADA on the topic of taking the time to personalize and individualize advising for online students to help them feel more connected with the institution. In her current advising position at Rowan University, she works with both online and on-ground students. She previously researched and implemented new strategies to engage and support online students as a program coordinator and advisor at Drexel University. She has also served as a counselor/coordinator at Salem Community College, working within a TRIO program assisting students who placed in developmental courses. She earned her M.S.Ed in higher education administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jennifer has over fifteen years’ experience in higher education. She has held roles in student advising, academic administration, and as a faculty member. She has written articles on proactive advising, adult learning theories, and distance learning. She has presented at SLOAN, NACADA, and AAC&U. In addition she has also delivered webinars for Academic Impressions and is a contributing author to NACADA’s advising manual. She is a member of AAC&U and NACADA. She is passionate about helping students be successful in the classroom. She teaches business related courses, where she specializes in working with at-risk students. She has also been a subject matter expert in leadership courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and is currently working on a doctorate degree in organizational leadership.
Cynthia Demetriou is the Director for Retention in the Office of Undergraduate Education and faculty advisor for Carolina Firsts, the student organization for first generation college students. She is a Carolina alumna with a Ph.D. in Education from the Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Evaluation program at UNC-Chapel Hill. She also holds a Masters degree in Education from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has taken additional coursework in educational psychology at New York University. Her research interests include applications of positive psychology in higher education, undergraduate retention, and academic motivation.
Prior to his current appointment, Chris served as Director of Admissions at West Virginia Wesleyan College, his alma mater. He has more than 15 years of experience in admissions, financial aid, and enrollment management. Additional appointments have been with Alfred University and Buena Vista University.
