Terry Metz consults for academic library and information technology organizations at colleges and small universities. He focuses primarily on organizational development, process improvement, strategic alignment, and staff development. He also provides expertise for unifying library and technology services for organizational effectiveness. Terry most recently served as university librarian at Washington and Lee University. He held prior appointments as library director at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and as vice president for library and information services at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. His cabinet-level position at Wheaton was responsible for unifying the information assets of the college both in support of the college’s academic mission and its management and operations. Terry is an EDUCAUSE Frye Fellow from the class of 2000. Terry co-authored a chapter entitled, “From Tribes to Community: On Leadership Issues Related to the Integration of Library and Computing,” inLeadership, Higher Education, and the Information Age: a New Era for Information Technology and Libraries (Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2003). He also co-authored, “Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: The Integrated IT/Library Organization.” This article appeared in the May/June 2004 issue of EDUCAUSE Review.
Rick has served as Iona’s library director for more than 10 years. Prior to that he served as the Assistant Director of Libraries for Public Service & Systems, the Systems Librarian, and Circulation Librarian. Rick is a tenured Associate Professor, and has taught courses in film, mass communication, and library instruction. He has served as a consultant and member of evaluation teams for the New York State Education Department (NYSED). An avid photographer, he has had his work displayed at juried exhibits, and an article published in The Journal of Pastoral Counseling, “Through the Woods: A Photographic Look at Resiliency.”
Since 1997, Ms. Steele has served as Vice Provost for Information Technology/CIO for Iona College. Among her responsibilities have been serving on the President’s Cabinet, establishing future goals for Information Technology and Libraries, and managing the following areas: administrative computing, academic computing, college libraries, web services, network services, data communications, telecommunications, duplicating and graphics. Ms. Steele and her team were responsible for the renovation and transformation of Iona’s two Libraries. The state of the art Libraries now provide an integrated service point for all IT and Library needs. She was also a key player on the creation of the mock trading floor in the Hagan School of Business. While serving on the President’s Cabinet, she has been involved in the many of the college’s strategic planning teams. Currently, she is serving as a Director of the implementation of the college wide strategic plan. She has created numerous IT Strategic Plans in collaboration with the Committee on Information Technology and Computing Services.
Sherry and Aaron worked together to develop TAO, based on the fundamentals of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Sherry brings the psychology perspective while Aaron’s background is in instructional design and technologies. They are both committed to online technology helping the therapeutic intervention to be as effective as possible.
Abby oversees university-wide stewardship reporting strategies and acknowledgment standards while specializing in impact communication. Her focus is to build relationships and manage projects in a way that improves efficiencies, fosters creativity, and enables her team to exceed donor expectations.
Dr. Debbie Cottrell serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas Lutheran University, a small, liberal arts-focused institution near San Antonio. Prior to coming to TLU in 2012, she worked in academic administration at colleges in Missouri, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Debbie has given recent presentations on academic program reviews and on career and academic advising. She serves on the Undergraduate Education Advisory Committee of the Higher Education Coordinating Board for the state of Texas.
In addition to her teaching duties, Sherry Jones is the creator of the experimental MOOC Rhetoric and Composition: The Persuasive Power of Video Games as Paratexts (2013), a judge for SIIA 2015 CODiE Awards “Best Game-Based Curriculum Solution” category, and the co-author of “Composition on a New Scale: Play UX Design Thinking in Online Writing Instruction (OWI) (2014).” She currently serves as the game design and psychology subject matter expert for Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, and the game studies facilitator for the #Metagame Book Club. Sherry has been named the 2015 Educator of the Year by the eLCC and has been featured in Psychology of Games, Good Games Writing, Educator Innovator, GameVortex, eCampus News, eLearning Industry, Electric Literature, and Edwin McRae. In the business world, Sherry serves as the game architecture designer and narrative designer of the Perspective Game, a massively multiplayer online role playing card game (MMORPCG) and an epistemic game designed to promote civic engagement with real world issues. Sherry can be reached on twitter @autnes or via her about.me page.
Rick, a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® and a Certified Financial Planner™, became Director of Gift Planning for Dartmouth Medical School (now the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) and Dartmouth-Hitchcock (an academic medical center) in May 2009. In early 2014, he was promoted to Director of Individual Giving and Gift Planning, where he works with donors (and manages frontline fundraisers) focused mainly on outright gifts of $50,000 to $1,000,000, as well as planned gifts of any size and type. Prior to these roles, Rick served almost four years as Associate Director of Gift Planning at Dartmouth College. Before joining Dartmouth, Rick managed a private practice as a personal financial advisor in Williston, VT and West Lebanon, NH for seven years.
Carolyn joined the annual giving staff at Colby College in 2003. She has been the director of the Colby Fund since March of 2007 and the interim director of alumni relations since May of 2014. Together, the Colby Fund team raised $6.2 million in total support for the college in FY14 ($5.2 million unrestricted) from alumni and parents of the college, with 45% of alumni participating. She has also worked in development at two other institutions—as the director of institutional advancement at St. Dominic Academy and as the assistant director of the annual fund at Brandeis University.
