Brian Williams is the first Transportation Demand Management coordinator for Duke University, supporting the university and most of the Duke Health System. He helped negotiate contracts for a universal bus pass program between Duke and local/regional transit providers, and for a custom car-sharing program supported by WeCar and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He is completing a low-cost bike infrastructure project that will provide safety measures for biking on every road on campus. Brian graduated from North Carolina State University in 2001 with a BA in communications. Outside of work, he is involved with the promotion and support of electric vehicles with the Triangle Electric Auto Association in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park area.
Stephanie and colleagues developed and launched the CSS in 2003 as a comprehensive academic support services resource for faculty, staff, and students. Academic Advising, Career Services, Counseling Services, Disability Services, and Learning Services comprise the CSS. Stephanie is a member of the college’s Enrollment Management and Retention Committees and chairs the Campus Wellness Network (CWN). The CWN’s members include faculty and staff who meet on a regular basis and determine interventions for students at risk. She also teaches and advises in the college’s First Year Seminar (FYS) program, specifically developing an intensive advising seminar program in conjunction with the assistant director of academic advising. She provides annual training for FYS faculty focusing on developmental advising issues and fostering advising relationships. In 2007, she was recognized as an Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate national semifinalist by the National Resource Center for The First Year Experience and Students in Transition. Stephanie coordinates the fall and spring Early Warning Program (EWP) and academic probation student support programming. Prior to joining Elizabethtown College in 2001, Stephanie was an academic advisor at the University of South Dakota’s Academic Advising and Testing Center (1993-99). She and colleague Lucky Huber piloted the initial Freshman Seminar Program.
Grays Harbor College (GHC) takes a multifaceted approach to student success. In collaboration with student services and instruction, programs supporting the success of all students include new student orientation, FYE, peer mentoring, online learning workshops, and the early alert program. Diane is responsible for all of those programs in addition to two programs that focus on special populations: GHC’s “Prepared to Succeed” advising program is for students who place into pre-college coursework, and the “Complete and Compete” program is targeted to student-athletes at GHC. Much of this work was started when Diane served as Title III grant director from 2004-09 and has been carried forward to her current position. She is also on the Instructional Management Team, the Student Services Management Team, the advising committee, and the wellness committee. In 2000, Diane received the GHC President’s Award for Excellence as an administrator. She also started the Student Success Conference (SSC) under the Title III grant, and it is now sponsored by the GHC Learning Center.
Barry is a licensed clinical psychologist who joined Albion College in 2004. In 2006, he developed the Academic Success Program (ASP), a multidimensional program designed to promote increased success and retention in Albion College’s highest-risk students. The ASP received the 2009 Noel-Levitz Retention Excellence Award and the 2010 NACADA Outstanding Advising Program Award, identifying it as one of the most effective and cutting-edge retention programs in the country. Barry’s training and background provide him a unique perspective on the psychological dynamics underlying students’ academic performance. He specializes in both systemic and individual issues related to student success and retention. Barry provides consultation to several colleges and universities, and he routinely presents on issues related to retention, academic achievement, academic probation, and strategies and interventions to help address struggling students.
Charles has more than 30 years of experience in academic and research libraries. Since 1988, he has held a series of administrative positions in the Emory Libraries including director of instructional support services, director of planning and budget, and director of library facilities. Charles has served as library project manager for numerous construction and renovation projects, including the Center for Library and Information Resources, an addition to Emory’s main library. A member of the Committee on the Environment of Emory’s university senate, Charles served as library project manager for the renovation of the Asa Griggs Candler Library, the first LEED-certified renovation project on campus.
Ms. Parsons Vicchio has over 20 years of experience in all phases of architecture, including programming, design, documentation, construction, and interior design. During the past decade, she has focused on the architecture of libraries, museums, and visitor centers, which preserve and provide access to our cultural record and support academic and lifelong learning. She has served as faculty for the Academic Impressions library planning institute in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. She is currently leading teams for the The National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, renovations to The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s historic central building in Baltimore, and an academic library renovation. She completed three library planning initiatives earlier this year. Sandra has spoken about library and cultural facilities at national meetings for both the American Association of Museums and the American Library Association.
Wes was the library’s project officer for the $109 million William Oxley Thompson Library renovation effort from 2000 through its completion in 2009. He has served at Ohio State since 1984 and has also held positions at the New York Public Library, the Minnesota Historical Society, and Macalester College. Wes has been published widely in the literature of preservation of library materials, and he serves as an adjunct professor in the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science.
David is a computer scientist with over 16 years of experience applying a unique ethnography-based methodology for uncovering and addressing the unmet needs of researchers, undergraduates, librarians, and office workers, using in-context observations, interviews, cultural probes, and collaborative design activities. He has held positions at the Xerox PARC Research Center, the University of Rochester Libraries, and the (open-source software producing) eXtensible Catalog Organization. David is a successful grant writer with over $1 million in funding from IMLS and the Mellon Foundation, and an experienced presenter at venues including the Library of Congress, CNI, ALA, LITA, Access, and the National Library of Australia. In 2010, David was recognized as one of a group of librarians shaping the future of libraries and as an innovator who is focused upon serving user needs with a “Movers and Shakers Award” from Library Journal.
In his current role at Beloit College, Tim provides strategic leadership, creative direction and oversight to evolve, promote and celebrate the college’s brand, image and relationships to influence strategic outcomes through integrated marketing efforts, outreach, events, media, design, digital and all forms of content. Before joining Beloit College in 2017, Tim led Clarkson University’s marketing, messaging, and branding for the university with a focus on long-term strategic goals for admissions, student and alumni engagement, fundraising success, academic research, and peer outreach. Tim was also the executive creative director at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. where he helped NC State redefine its market position and transform its communications approach through vision, direction, and strategy at the intersection of the web, design, marketing, and media. Tim also served in a transition role as the interim chief communications officer at NC State where he helped evolve a staff of forty into a best-in-class internal marketing and communications agency. He started at NC State as the director of web communications, working to establish the university’s award-winning complete digital presence. Tim has worked in higher education for more than eighteen years, working at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA before […]
