Archives: Instructors

As Duke University’s first scholarly communications officer, Kevin Smith’s principle role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators, and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing, and scholarly publishing. Before moving to Duke in 2006, Kevin, a librarian and a lawyer, served as the director of the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught constitutional law. He is a member of the provost’s Intellectual Property Board at Duke and is chair of ACRL’s Research and Scholarly Environment committee. Kevin Smith has contributed to a number of AI events both in-person and online advising hundreds of higher education administrators. His previous events include: Copyright Law: Practical Application and Training Copyright and Fair Use: Compliance Guidelines for Faculty Copyright and Faculty Rights Libraries and Copyright in a Digital Age Managing Copyright Use, Ownership, and Policy

Matthew St. Clair is the first sustainability manager for the University of California’s Office of the President; since 2004, has led sustainability efforts across the 10-campus UC system. Matthew is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Strategic Energy Innovations, a nonprofit organization implementing energy conservation programs in California. He serves on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committees on Sustainability at UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Merced. He is a co-founder of the Berkeley Environmental Alumni Network. Matthew has delivered lectures at numerous universities, been an invited keynote speaker at regional and national conferences, and has advised the U.S. House of Representatives on the formation of an Office of Sustainability for the U.S. Capitol. He has been profiled in Business Week and Business Officer magazines, and was given the 2007 Sustainability Champion award at the 6th Annual California University Sustainability Conference in June 2007. Matthew has a background in environmental policy and advocacy and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Dr. Luna currently serves as associate vice president for student affairs and academic support at the University of South Carolina. He also holds a clinical faculty appointment in the College of Education and teaches in the higher education and student affairs administration graduate programs. Gene has direct responsibility for the student success center and early intervention programs, housing and residence education, student conduct, academic integrity, national student exchange, student health center, counseling center, student disability services, sexual health and violence prevention, student engagement, and a campus initiative to promote health and wellness called Healthy Carolina. He has been extensively involved with the redesign of the general education requirements for students and was co-author of a proposal adopted as the university’s Quality Enhancement Program within its recent SACS re-accreditation. Gene has published more than 30 articles and recently edited a monograph titled Learning Initiatives in the Residential Environment.

Jen currently teaches at The Ohio State University, where she has taught an undergraduate leadership course using service learning. She previously worked for Ohio Campus Compact, a nonprofit coalition of Ohio colleges and universities that aims to educate students in civic responsibility. Her professional areas of interest and scholarship focus on critical and social justice frameworks applied to service learning, the scholarship of engagement, and building just and inclusive communities. In 2004, she was recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award by The College of Education at OSU. She has also held a variety of student affairs positions at William and Mary, Grinnell College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Jen’s doctoral dissertation focused on racially underrepresented college students’ experiences in service learning.

Erik Range has presented at several national conferences on topics surrounding retention of at-risk populations, the first-year experience for minority males, and the benefits of summer bridge programs in retaining students of color. Erik has been the assistant director of the Upward Bound program at the University of Miami and, more recently, worked as the coordinator in the Multicultural Academic and Support Services Program at the University of Central Florida. At UCF, he assisted in the development of a newly funded Upward Bound program. He also coordinated UCF’s Brother to Brother and Seizing Opportunities for Achievement and Retention programs. Both programs assist students from multicultural, first-generation, and low-income backgrounds in navigating through the collegiate experience.

Jeff is responsible for overseeing university-wide principal and planned giving efforts at Oregon State. Previously, in his role at Georgetown University, his management resulted in approximately $500 million of planned gift commitments and receipts including $248 million for a $1 billion comprehensive campaign. Before arriving at Georgetown in 1995, Jeff spent 11 years in Denver directing the planned giving program for the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. As a past member of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning, (formerly the National Committee on Planned Giving), Jeff has served as president, sat on the board for five years, and acted as chair of the 10th National Conference in New Orleans. Jeff is a past president and board member of the National Capital Gift Planning Council of Greater Washington.

David is responsible for all data security matters at Boston College. He was nominated for the Information Security Executive of the Year award in 2005 and 2006, and he has spoken on security topics at the Campus Technology Conference, RSA Conference, EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Professionals Conference, and Network World IT Roadmap. Previously, he was director of professional services, Americas, for Baltimore Technology and manager of the Network Consulting group at Bolt Beranek & Newman, where he consulted with a variety of Fortune 500 companies on network and security issues.

Travis manages the day-to-day IT audit function for Boston College, serving on the college-wide Data Security and Emergency Management Committees to provide audit insight and expertise. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s (ISACA) New England Chapter Board of Directors. Previously, he was a senior business consultant at the public accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP, performing internal and IT control evaluations for global Fortune 1000 companies.

Mrs. Holmes has spent more than 14 years assisting alumni and students in reaching their career goals. In her current role, she has grown her office’s reach from 300 to 6,500 alumni through the innovative use of one-on-one resources and technology to leverage the institution’s broad alumni experience. Prior to arriving at Georgetown, she served as a career counselor and assistant director at Villanova University.