Catie oversees the student outreach department and with her staff, advises the three alumni association student organizations, the student alumni association, Georgia Tech Student Foundation, and the Georgia Tech student ambassadors. The essential function of the student outreach department is to guide and work with students, alumni, campus partners, and alumni association colleagues to promote student involvement and lifelong loyalty to Georgia Tech. Her advisement of the alumni association student organization has resulted in multiple awards and recognitions for the student groups over the last four years. This recognition includes the following National CASE ASAP awards: Outstanding Organization – Student Foundation, Outstanding External Program for Expert Jackets (SAA), Outstanding Internal Program for Dinner Jackets (SAA), and Outstanding Internal Program for Mentor Jackets (SAA). The students and the student organizations have also earned seventeen District CASE ASAP awards over the same time period, and Catie won the distinction of Outstanding Advisor in 2014. In the past four years, both the alumni association student organizations and the campus relations staff have been honored at the Institute level at the Up with the White and Gold Awards program. Catie has also been asked to write a chapter for an upcoming CASE publication, Student […]
Laura Giglio oversees the Georgia Tech Student Foundation and the Georgia Tech Student Alumni Association Mentor Jackets program. Laura began her work with the Alumni Association student organizations as a student leader, where she served on the Student Foundation Board of Trustees and was a founding member of the Student Alumni Association. Laura graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Electrical Engineering and earned her Master’s in Electrical Engineering. Laura worked as a consultant for two years before she returned to the Alumni Association to work with the student programs.
Omar Andujar is a certified compliance and ethics professional (CCEP) with over a decade of experience in developing and leading institutional initiatives and compliance efforts within the higher education and non-profit sectors. In his current role, he is chiefly responsible for the overall operation of enterprise-wide Protection of Minors efforts at the University of Connecticut. Prior to this, Omar worked at the University of Florida where he directed the implementation and day-to-day operation of enterprise-wide Protection of Minors efforts for programs serving nearly 250,000 minors. Mr. Andujar has frequently presented and published articles on developing and managing Protection of Minors efforts within Institutions of Higher Education. He has experience in creating and delivering onsite and virtual training for groups across diverse industries, and has designed online registration systems aimed at centrally tracking programs, analyzing performance trends, and validating compliance. Throughout his career, he has carried out extensive compliance monitoring activities for programs sponsored by various regulatory agencies and bodies, including youth-related programs in Institution of Higher Education, Early Childhood Education centers, and Therapeutic Foster Care programs. Mr. Andujar is a founding member of the Youth Protection Network for Higher Education and serves on the Board of Directors for Mental Health […]
Dawn has held this position since joining Vanderbilt University in June 2013 with the creation of the position. Her role includes oversight and administration of the Protection of Minors Policy and its compliance applications to all University and third party programs interacting with minors. In addition, her office supports programs by providing resources for training and education, advising on and disseminating best practices, and coordinating the response involving perceived, potential, and actual occurrence risks to minors. She has 15 years of prior experience in roles related to program management, policy, education, and grant administration. She earned her M.S. degree in Criminal Justice at Virginia Commonwealth University, while working at a runaway and placement shelter for at-risk adolescents and holds a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice from Texas Christian University. Ms. Riddle is a member of the University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA), the Youth Protection Network in Higher Education, the American Camp Association, the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Nashville Child Protection Coalition. Dawn has served on the Board of Directors for the Davis House Child Advocacy Center for seven years. Ms. Riddle’s recent related presentations include internal training to research groups, residential education staff, students, […]
Sandy Weaver’s responsibilities include validating and maintaining a comprehensive inventory of all youth activities occurring on Penn State campuses as well as university-sponsored activities off-campus. She also is responsible for ensuring that youth programs and their participants comply with university policies and procedures, particularly those related to the safety and security of non-student minors. Sandy’s previous experiences in education and training, children’s services, and compliance bring a unique and significant skill set to this position. Her work in the guardian ad litem program involved the oversight of a group of trained, independent advocates who promoted the best interests of abused, neglected, and dependent children within a state court system. Experiences in compliance, in children’s mental health services at a statewide level and the continuing medical education system at a national level, included oversight of the development and monitoring of policies and procedures. Additional responsibilities have included working with large corporations and educational institutions in the development and implementation of processes to meet requirements of corporate integrity agreements. When combined, these experiences have created a strong foundation for a long-term commitment to the safety and well-being of children.
Sarah Montès is passionate about the power of advising to help students reach their full potential and achieve academic success. During the past seven years, she has served as the principle academic advisor for hundreds of Tulane University’s undergraduate students across a wide-range of disciplines. Additionally, she has successfully transformed a variety of advising, retention, and graduation processes. One program she developed, “MAP- Maximizing Academic Potential,” was an academic success program for students facing loss of scholarship or academic probation. This program is the grandparent of Tulane’s innovative “Tulane Academic Success Center” which now offers professional success coaching, supplemental instruction, tutoring, academic recharge, and other academic support services for a wide range of Tulane’s full-time undergraduate students. She has also developed a robust system for improving the response of various university units to students who are demonstrating academic risk factors. Montès leads the liberal arts and exploratory advising team, a team of twelve advisors, and has partnered with Amjad Ayoubi and others to integrate career and academic advising, with the aim of achieving “career advising for all,” a holistic approach to advising students from freshman year to senior year. This integration creates a proactive dynamic that guides students to find […]
In addition to her current position, Stephanie Atella, MPH, CHES, is the project director for a campus grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. During her time as a public health professional, her work has focused on violence prevention, sexual health, and gender-based violence. She is a certified health education specialist and a trained rape victim advocate and domestic violence advocate in the state of Illinois. At Loyola, Stephanie coordinates sexual assault advocacy services, as well as training and education on campus around Title IX and the Clery Act. Stephanie served as a primary negotiator on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for Clery Act updates under the Violence Against Women Act.
Between 2104 and December 2018, Emily Richardson was responsible for the Hayworth Center for Online Learning at Queens University of Charlotte, focused on five fully online programs at the graduate level. Prior to this position, she was the associate vice president for Boundless Learning at Stetson University for two years. She began her education career at Widener University where she spent twenty-one years, initially teaching in the School of Hospitality Management. She also served as dean of the University College, a home for non-traditional students, prior to her departure. Currently she is working as an adjunct faculty teaching online for one of her previous institutions. Richardson started her career in the hotel management industry, where she spent time in multiple positions throughout the United States and worked for companies such as Hyatt Hotels, Harvey House Hotels and RockResorts. Her emphasis during most of her hospitality career was on training for customer service employees.
Justin manages the University of Ottawa’s strategic initiative to become, and remain, a recognized leader in service excellence. The university is committed to putting students at the center of its educational mission and strengthening every element of the student connection. As a skilled facilitator and motivational change agent, Justin collaborates with all university sectors to implement a range of continuous improvement strategies. These include annual student experience measurements, strategic solutions, action planning, improving processes, employee standards and performance metrics, employee rewards and recognition, training and communications. From front-line employees to senior administrators, all levels of the university are implicated in the success of the Service Excellence initiative. Justin’s drive to improve customer service for students started with his own student experience. A two-time graduate from the University of Ottawa, he was a dedicated advocate for improvements to the student experience over the course of his studies. Today, he brings forward his in-depth knowledge of student needs to encourage university employees to take the time to listen to the students and put themselves in their shoes.
John Barnshaw is the president of Systematic Research Solutions, a data solutions and consulting organization designed to facilitate unit and institutional improvement for public, private, and non-profit institutions. Barnshaw also serves as the senior program officer and senior higher education researcher at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), where he directs the Faculty Compensation Survey, the largest and most established independent study of faculty salary and benefits for two- and four-year institutions of higher education in the United States. Prior to joining the AAUP, Dr. Barnshaw directed the National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity (Delaware Cost Study), a longitudinal benchmarking study that explores faculty teaching, separately budgeted research and public service, and cost at the discipline level for four-year institutions. Dr. Barnshaw blends his wealth of experience in data alignment, statistical modeling, and research with his knowledge of higher education best (and worst) practices to facilitate unit and institutional improvement for those looking to use their extant resources as efficiently as possible.
