Kathie Shafer has served as vice president for operations for Messiah College since 2005. In her 26 years of experience in higher education, beginning in conference and event planning, she has overseen the management of the custodial staff, department of safety, facility management, construction programs, and the crisis management team. As vice president for operations, Kathie has succeeded in developing both a reserve maintenance fund and a long-term maintenance plan funded out of energy savings.
Ed oversees the creation and distribution of high-quality, technology-based distance learning products and services to students and educational institutions worldwide. Prior to this, he served as the executive dean of distance learning for the Dallas TeleCollege. In this capacity, Ed oversaw the design, development, and delivery of online courses for the Dallas County Community College District; developed online faculty training workshops and materials; mentored, reviewed, and evaluated the performance of online faculty; and served on various DCCCD working groups that focused on online course training, development, delivery, and quality. Under his leadership, the Dallas County Community College District, which is composed of seven separately accredited colleges, implemented Quality Matters. Over 200 faculty have been trained through this program. Ed served as a chair for Quality Matters reviews and is a certified Master Reviewer. He was also the Institutional Representative for Quality Matters. He has been serving in distance learning leadership roles for over 20 years and frequently presents at national, state, and local distance learning conferences.
In his role as an assistant director and a graduate faculty scholar at UCF’s College of Education, Kelvin has collaborated in the design of hundreds of online and blended courses over the past 13 years. Kelvin developed the BlendKit Course open courseware (http://bit.ly/blendkit) as part of UCF’s Blended Learning Toolkit. His personal research interests center on how interaction affects learner engagement, and information on his Online Course Criticism qualitative evaluation model for facilitating the scholarship of teaching and learning in online and blended environments is available online (http://onlinecoursecriticism.com).
Pamela develops and implements various programs and services for UMUC’s worldwide faculty including their new faculty orientations, faculty peer mentoring, faculty recognition awards, and a new faculty coaching program. She is one of the founding members of Maryland Consortium for Adjunct Professional Development, and has presented at several conferences, including the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, the International Conference for College Teaching and Learning, and the Maryland Distance Learning Association. She has conducted and evaluated many workshops and trainings on health education and faculty development issues in the United States and Japan. Her doctorate is in applied social psychology from The George Washington University with a specialty in health psychology.
Phil Rouble is accountable for campus and facilities planning at Algonquin College. Described as a thought leader in space management, he has presented in numerous forums on his space mining techniques, which have helped Algonquin achieve highly efficient space optimization. In particular, Phil has learned to leverage the game-changing power of Excel pivot tables and data analysis to optimize physical space resources (bricks). Phil is now turning his attention to building capacity in digital space (clicks) and to integrating the planning of “bricks and clicks” space. Before joining Algonquin, Phil spent 10 years as a full-time professor teaching in a community college. Phil holds degrees in civil engineering (structural) and architecture. His professional interests include learning, teaching, strategic and tactical planning, sustainable development, and adapting digital technologies to enable more effective facilities planning and design.
Mark Frydenberg is a senior lecturer of computer information systems at Bentley University, and the director of its Learning and Technology Sandbox. A classroom innovator, Mark recently introduced a multidisciplinary Web 2.0 course where business and liberal arts students explore social media and Web 2.0 technologies, their use in the enterprise, and their influence on society. He is the author of Web 2.0 Concepts and Applications, a textbook published by Cengage Learning. His research centers on Web 2.0 literacy and engaging students with new technology. Mark has spoken about teaching and learning with new technologies at conferences and events throughout the US and Europe. Find him online at http://cis.bentley.edu/mfrydenberg or @checkmark on Twitter.
Cate Morrison and Johanna Webber are residence life managers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. At UBC, residence life managers are responsible for programs, activities, conduct, and residence life in residence halls. Cate works in a traditional-style residence while Johanna works in a suite-style residence. Individually, Cate and Johanna have worked to move several sustainability initiatives forward, including organic waste collection in the residence halls, sourcing local goods and products when possible, and UBC’s signature “Green Star Units” and “Do It In the Dark” programming. Cate and Johanna are emerging experts on sustainability in housing and residence life operations. Both are passionate about small steps that make a big difference and making participation in sustainable initiatives as simple as possible.
Since joining Brailsford & Dunlavey, Pete has developed methodologies that enable organizations to pursue their mission-based goals through the development and management of their own real estate assets. Pete’s experience at institutions across the country has positioned him to effectively serve as a strategic advisor for his clients in determining creative funding mechanisms, analyzing public-private partnership opportunities, and conducting bond compliance reporting for complex, multi-phase development plans. Pete’s clients have valued his ability to convert preliminary project concepts into implementable plans, often retaining him to continue serving as their program manager through the financing, professional team selection, design, and construction of capital projects. Prior to joining B&D, Pete worked at FelCor Lodging Trust Inc., where he analyzed market supply growth in numerous cities to assist in property acquisition, disposition, renovation, and re-branding decisions for the Dallas-based real estate investment trust (REIT). Pete started with B&D in the Washington, DC office and has since helped to establish regional offices in Chicago and Charlotte.
Since joining Brailsford & Dunlavey, Sam has provided planning and implementation services for more than 40 higher education institutions. This has included more than 25 student housing planning assignments and several student housing public/private partnership analyses. Currently, he is serving as an owner’s representative to Southern Oregon University on its privatized student housing and dining development that supports the planning work Sam had previously performed for the university. He has shared his experiences at national higher education conferences, including NACUBO and ACUHO. Prior to joining B&D, he worked for KST Contractors, a real estate development contracting firm, where he helped manage the implementation of contracts for several residential subdivisions. Sam received a degree in business entrepreneurship from Indiana University.
