Dr. Romero became the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs in January 2019. She is the lead administrator on faculty matters related to professional development, career advancement, and support which include hiring, promotion, annual and five-year reviews, leadership development, and diversity initiatives for tenure-track, career-track, continuing status professionals, and academic administrators. She is co-owner of two initiatives in the Office of Strategic Initiatives: Our Best Work Environment and Hispanic-Serving Institution Faculty and Research Initiatives. Dr. Romero’s scholarly work has examined community-based participatory action research methods to end health disparities in underprivileged communities. In addition to authoring two books and publishing numerous research articles, her externally funded research agenda has looked to build community partnerships to help find solutions with the common goal of equity and social justice. She has received numerous awards for her leadership and service, including the Cesar Chavez Award, the Dr. Alfredo De Los Santos Award for Service and Teaching, Mujer en la Lucha Award, the Woman of the Year Award by the Hispanic Professional Action Committee, and the Richard Ruiz Diversity Leadership Faculty Award. She is currently President-Elect for the National Latinx Psychological Association. She was a member of the 2017-2018 Academic Leadership Institute cohort. Dr. Romero […]
She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of the Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series. Her book publications include the co-edited volumes: The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader; Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas; and, The Untied States: Unraveling National Identity in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming). She has also edited two books: Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes in Life Writing and Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives. Currently, she is completing an edited collection of oral histories of Hurricane María, which is under contract with Haymarket Books for inclusion in the Voice of Witness book series. Her forthcoming children’s book, Maxy Survives the Hurricane/Maxy sobrevive al huracán, was co-authored with a student and is forthcoming from the children’s imprint of Arte Público Press, Piñata Books. She is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Oral History Association Post-Secondary Teaching Award for her public humanities project, “Mi María: Puerto Rico after the Hurricane.” This project also won an inaugural Modern Language Association Innovation in the Humanities Award for outstanding course design.
Jessica joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Career Development Office (CDO) in 2017 as the Assistant Director and then transitioned to Associate Director in 2019. In her role, she supports a team of 20 by providing project and event support for the office, as well as internal reporting and assessment. Prior to her work at the Carey Business School, Jessica worked at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), supporting leadership, diversity and inclusion, residence life, and student engagement initiatives. While at MICA, she developed the graduate housing program, a community engagement living learning program, and raised thousands of dollars for the LGBT student scholarship program. Prior to moving to Maryland, Jessica worked at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa supporting new student orientation, multicultural affairs, student engagement, and residence life. Jessica also has experience assisting with leadership and professional development courses. She originally went to school for architecture and loves to apply her design thinking skills in unique ways to help solve issues that arise in higher education.
Michael has served as executive director of the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities since July 2015, where he works with Florida International University, the University of Central Florida (UCF), and the University of South Florida on collaborative projects designed to increase retention, improve graduation rates, and ensure graduates are career–ready. Prior to taking on this role, he served for four years as the director of the Office of Student Involvement at UCF, where he oversaw a comprehensive involvement program including entertainment programming, student organizations, volunteer and service programs, and student government. Michael has worked in higher education for nearly 20 years and is regularly asked to speak and present on such topics as student affairs assessment, personal career development, student engagement practices, and developing student leadership competencies. In addition to his work in student affairs at UCF, he is a faculty member in the higher education and policy studies department, where he teaches on the subject of organization and administration in higher education. He is a graduate of East Carolina University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale and earned his Ed.D. in higher education administration and policy studies at Texas A&M University–Commerce in 2011.
Dr. Adam Peck has been a student affairs professional for more than 25 years. He is the author of more than forty scholarly publications and has presented more than 100 national and international webinars. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and on campuses around the U.S. and internationally, and he served as editor and co-author of the book Engagement & Employability: Integrating Career Learning Through Co-Curricular Experiences in Postsecondary Education (NASPA Press, March 2017). He recently co-edited “Leadership Development in Student Employment, New Directions for Student Leadership” with Kathleen Callahan and currently serves as editor of the Scholarship to Practice section of The Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship. Dr. Peck earned his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Lewis University, a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.
Director of Academic Support at the University of Mount Union, uses evidence-based approaches, collaborative partnerships, and effective learning strategies to help her students achieve more.
Catherine is responsible for promoting educational development through improved teaching practice. CETL serves thousands of instructors each year. In 2019, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) commended the center as a “national model for faculty development”. Catherine has directed CETL since 2011. Catherine is a late-career librarian and was formerly a public relations executive. She received her bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington. She is tenured at the level of full professor at the university library, where she coordinates information curriculum. She is very familiar with the relevant set of standards governing the field of information and communication technology (ICT) literacy, and highly experienced in the education and/or instruction of persons in this field. She served on the international cut score panel that set standards for the Educational Testing Service’s (ETS) iCritical Thinking, the first commercial assessment of information literacy. Her current scholarship focuses on the role that self-awareness plays in development of faculty teaching identity, including self-regulation (SRL) of faculty as expert learners. In 2015, Professor Haras was named a Distinguished Teaching and Learning Advisor with the American Council on Education (ACE) and edited an […]
Rick has 30 years of experience developing teams and writing proposals to federal, private, and corporate foundations as well as international funding sources. He has helped hundreds of faculty become competitive. Rick has significantly contributed to over $100M in external awards across a broad range of funding agencies: NSF, NIH, DoD, Department of Energy, Department of Education, State Department, Department of Health and Human Services, as well as state, private, and international funding sources. Rick has been a leader in global research while at Texas A&M University, University of North Texas, and Mississippi State University. He previously served as an East Asia program manager at the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. He has also served as PI and Co-PI on NSF, Department of Education, State Department, as well as private funding. Rick’s experience includes designing and delivering workshops on how to be successful in competing for grants and contracts, what makes for a successful international research or development proposal, understanding the review process, and determining how to assess declined proposals. He has directly helped hundreds of faculty be successful with proposals to federal agencies, private foundations, and foreign funders, through strategies for fundraising, international […]
Melody serves as the Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Wesleyan is the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. Melody has spent her career empowering women to succeed, and her work at Wesleyan is a natural fit for her passion for helping women find and use their voice. As Provost, she oversees all academic and student affairs areas of the college and is responsible for strategic planning, development of new programs, and leading a world class faculty in educating women. Prior to serving Wesleyan, Melody worked as a Professor of Psychology and Provost at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She also served for three years as Vice President of Mission Services at Goodwill of the Heartland, where she led a team successfully through a disruptive change. A native of California, Melody earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Master of Arts and Ph.D. in social psychology from Claremont Graduate University. Her research areas of interest include assessment of academic programs, change management, and women’s friendships.
David is the Associate Director in the Academic and Student Affairs office, where he leads the Harris Writing Program. In his role, he works with faculty to develop and evaluate writing-focused assignments, assists students in improving their writing skills, and trains and manages the Writing Program Teaching Assistants, among other duties. Prior to joining Harris, David worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, first as a Senior Communications Specialist and then as a Strategic Planning and Foresight Analyst. For nearly nine years, he taught public policy writing, consulted with researchers on the design and execution of governmental audits and evaluations, facilitated message development exercises, and wrote and edited reports and testimonies for the U.S. Congress. For six years, he also taught public policy writing at Johns Hopkins University, and in 2017, he wrote Public Policy Writing That Matters, a handbook for anyone passionate about using writing to effect real and lasting policy changes. David graduated from the University of Chicago’s MA Program in the Social Sciences in 2010, and he finished his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he studied history, social science, and studio art.
