Instructors
Minta McNally is associate vice president and executive director for parent programs at Wake Forest University. In her role, she manages the Wake Forest Parents’ Council, fundraising initiatives for the parent constituency, and oversees external relations with undergraduate parents. She has over 30 years experience in institutional advancement; her previous positions have included Director of the College Fund and Assistant Vice President of Alumni Activities and Annual Support.
Betsy Chapman is responsible for communications with undergraduate parents across a variety of platforms, including the Parents’ Page website and the Daily Deac blog, as well as parent content for Facebook and Twitter. She also works with the Wake Forest Parents’ Council and is responsible for the Council’s operations, meetings, and member fundraising. Betsy also manages the New Student Receptions program for incoming freshmen and their families. She has been at Wake Forest for nearly 15 years in a variety of roles serving the alumni and parent constituencies, as well as working in communications and events.
Araceli (Arci) is responsible for spatial reporting and accountability, as well as overseeing space management and optimization for the university. She works to provide effective solutions for greater space utilization, and she has been successful at partnering with other offices and departments on campus to successfully adopt new space policies that have increased their space usage and efficiency. She is also responsible for helping to educate campus customers on effective space management in an effort to meet the mission and objectives of the university. Prior to working at Tarleton State University, Arci was the Space Manager for the Space Information Resources office at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She also worked as an Independent Space Consultant for Tarleton State University before deciding to stay on as a full-time, permanent member of their staff. Her experience with space management at multiple institutions of higher learning make her skillset unique, extensive, and conscious of campus needs and objectives.
Robin provides expertise in elearning, social media, learning management systems and other educational technologies. She served as the Director of Online Quality and Community at Academic Partnerships, where she designed and developed the Faculty eCommons, Quality Course review processes and faculty development projects. Prior to working at AP, Robin was an instructional designer and educational technologist supervising online course and program development, faculty training, and provided strategic consulting in learning technologies. She has also served as a faculty member for Master’s Level educational technology and information science at Northeastern State University and the University of North Texas. Robin has more than 15 years of experience in educational technology leadership and has led numerous presentations and workshops around the country on topics such as: Social Media for Active Learning, Designing High Quality Online Courses, Mobile Learning, Game Elements for Learning and Learning with Open Educational Resources. She is a research fellow at The Texas Social Media Research Institute (TSMRI). Robin has a master’s Degree in Information Science from the University of North Texas, Post Masters Certification in Digital Content Management and is a PhD candidate at Texas Woman’s University.
Edmond Hurst has extensive experience structuring and funding higher education transactions for both public universities and private colleges, including assisting in evaluating economic considerations of P3 financing alternatives. Edmond develops and implements securities transactions throughout the country to provide funding for a variety of project types and sizes. He has served Crews clients for more than 20 years. Edmond’s primary focus is public finance where he provides municipal bond underwriting and lease financing services to state and local municipalities and non-profit corporations.
Shad Hanselman has served as the senior director of annual giving for the ASU Foundation for a New American University since August of 2010. Shad oversees all strategies related to raising gifts under $25,000, directs the Office of Annual Giving team, and serves as a resource for fundraising advice and information to the many units at Arizona State University. During his time with the ASU Foundation Shad has transformed annual giving into an affinity-based, engagement program. The ASU Foundation’s program relies heavily on experimentation and metrics to develop unique and sustainable approaches to relationship building and fundraising. Prior to joining the ASU Foundation, Shad served as the director of the annual fund at Northern Illinois University where he created the university’s first comprehensive faculty and staff giving campaign. He also oversaw programs that included the student call center, direct mail, parent giving, and student philanthropy engagement.
Tod Stevens offers insight into trends and strategies for effective planning of modern academic libraries. He has more than twenty years of architectural experience, with a focus on design, and an expertise in library planning. Tod leads Stantec Architecture’s library research and benchmarking team and has been very hands-on–conducting both primary and secondary research on libraries, visiting state-of-the-art institutions, speaking nationally, and attending American Library Association (ALA) conferences. He has attended a variety of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design Executive Education programs, focusing on planning and design of libraries. Through these endeavors, Tod is able to approach projects with progressive problem-solving techniques and is able to develop innovative solutions specific to the issues facing today’s libraries.
Lee has 45 years of leadership experience in academic libraries in Alabama, Kentucky, and Michigan, including reorganization, staff development, leadership, program innovation, and library design. Recently retired, Van Orsdel was dean of university libraries at Grand Valley State University from 2005 to 2016. Under her leadership, GVSU libraries won the 2012 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award for universities and the 2014 State Librarian’s Excellence Award. Van Orsdel supplied the vision for Grand Valley’s new main library, which was designed by Stantec Architecture. The $65 million LEED Platinum project opened in June 2013 and has since welcomed almost four million visitors. A multi-faceted post-occupancy study by Steelcase Corporation confirmed that the vision was fully realized. In September, the library was named a New Landmark Library by Library Journal.
Nancy Allen received her MLS from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and is currently the Dean and Director of University Libraries at the University of Denver. Prior to joining the DU community in 1992, she held administrative positions at Colorado State University, Wayne State University, and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Nancy was principal investigator for several major IMLS and LSTA grants for the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) and served for many years as the chair of the CDP Board. She has authored, co-authored, or edited 4 monographs, and 19 articles and chapters. Nancy has written on a range of library topics from library instruction to research resources for the study of cinema and television, and on library-museum collaboration for digitization of primary resource material held by cultural heritage organizations. She has served as a member of a number of organizational boards, including the Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors, Center for Research Libraries, and the Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) as well as the American Library Association’s governing Council.
