With nearly 12 years of experience at a variety of institutions, Roxie has worked to support diverse students, faculty, and staff through innovative programming and educational opportunities. In 2018 they received the Omicron Delta Kappa Campus Impact award for their work serving undocumented students and students with disabilities. At Rowan University Roxie leads the SJICR team as they work to support the identity development, academic success, and college completion of all who seek to be educated at Rowan. A true practitioner of intersectionality, Roxie works to infuse the voices of multiply marginalized people into all that they do. They have been active in social justice movements around anti-racism, sexuality, gender/identity, disability, fat, class, and religion for over a decade. They are also a certified conflict mediator and intercultural communications specialist.
Lisa Scott currently serves as the Vice President of Institutional Equity & Inclusion and Student Success at Luther College. Previous to Luther College, she held a variety of positions at Susquehanna University including vice president for student success and engagement, assistant provost for retention, assistant to the president and chief diversity officer. Lisa has also served as chief diversity officer at Denison University and at Bloomsburg University. Lisa’s research interests include senior leadership at predominantly white universities with a focus on Black women leaders and the influence of organizational culture on efforts to build inclusive and equitable institutions. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and both a master’s and bachelor’s degree in education from Cambridge College in Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Ebonée Williams serves as the Director-Virtual Experience and Peer Engagement Initiatives at UC San Diego. As a principal advisor to the Vice Chancellor and Student Affairs Leadership Team, she leads a variety of initiatives and strategic projects that facilitate change and positively enhance access to on-campus remote and virtual student experiences. She provides expert recommendations and develops short- and long-term goals and strategic plans, including the implementation of student-centered programs. Dr. Williams has contributed to UC San Diego for over 15 years, through the Jacobs School of Engineering, Sixth College and the Graduate Division, as well as the UC-wide Council of UC Staff Assemblies. Dr. Williams served as the interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Retention and Success and as Director of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center at UC San Diego’s Division of Engineering. She is an active member of the American Society of Engineering Education, the Community of Practice for Leadership Education for the 21st Century Engineer, the National Association of Multicultural Program Advocates, and the National Society of Black Engineers. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, an M.S. in Industrial Business Management from Lille Business School in France, and a […]
Together, let’s transform higher education to be more just, engaged, and nimble through innovation, culture change, and change management. Dr. Amanda Moore McBride is a seasoned leader in higher education with nearly 25 years of administrative experience at the intersection of academic leadership, faculty development, and community engagement. Currently serving as professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, McBride has a distinguished history in leadership roles—from most recently as dean at the University of Denver to associate dean at the Brown School of Social Work, the founding executive director of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, and research director at the Center for Social Development, all at Washington University in St. Louis. Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in managing change, fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, and centering wellness in both institutional and community contexts. Dr. McBride is an internationally-recognized expert in civic and community engagement, with over 100 publications focused on national service, service learning, and promoting inclusion in education. She has consulted for organizations such as the United States Corporation for National and Community Service, Social Science Research Council, the Brookings Institution, and the United […]
Bryan Hanson is an ombuds, educator, mediator, facilitator, and leader in the field of conflict engagement. Currently, Bryan is the ombuds for the Graduate School at Virginia Tech. In this role, he works with members of the Graduate School community so they may engage in and manage conflict in a constructive way. This is achieved through conversations aimed at creating a greater understanding of the university system and a deeper awareness of productive ways to communicate the concerns related to the conflicts experienced.
Durga has had an accomplished career at Wentworth Institute of Technology, where she has worn many hats over 19 years, from faculty in Computer Science and Networking, to her appointment a year ago as Special Assistant to the Provost for Graduate Programs, Dean of Graduate Education, and Dean of the School of Computing & Data Science. While faculty, she received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the President’s Award for Excellence in Service, and was also named Woman of the Year. She has been a faculty mentor, a senator, a search committee chair, a member of the community standards board, and graduate coordinator. As Special Assistant to the Provost for Graduate programs, Durga acted as an architect to the restructuring of graduate programs and provided strategic guidance to the University. She was instrumental in revamping and launching the master’s degrees in Civil Engineering, Applied Computer Science, and Project Management as 4+1 programs. She led the effort for the University to be certified for Integrated Path to Architecture licensure, which brings the university national spotlight as one of the best places for Architecture Education. She has also been instrumental in creating a new portfolio of graduate scholarships, academic excellence, and […]
A nationally recognized leader in the field of special education, Elizabeth served as assistant dean, chair, and director of the Department of Special Education—undergraduate and graduate—at Simmons College in Boston prior to joining Bay Path as the Dean of Faculty for the Burlington campus. She has been the principal investigator on several federal grants; conducted numerous program curriculum evaluations; chaired college accreditation evaluations; and served as a grant reader for several state and federal grants in Washington, DC; and was a participant at the CISSLM-IMLS International Research Symposium discussing the impact of school libraries on student learning in New York. Currently, she is co-editor of the Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, an education publication, and is a member of the national CEC finance committee for the Council of Special Education Administrators. Elizabeth’s research interests are in the areas of special education, professional development, and inclusionary practices for both educators and students. She has conducted national and local presentations and initiated programs for the practice of inclusion, and she is actively committed to training professionals to expand educational skills to educators at all levels.
In his current role, Gordon is tasked with innovating new degrees, certificates, and experiences born out of the best faculty, student, and community input to ensure the growth and value of a Boise State education. The goal of the CI+D is to incubate the most innovative and exciting ideas facing Boise State and higher education today, from new cross-disciplinary majors to new courses designed to build skills employers demand to re-imagining the future of a university. Prior to his role at Boise State, Gordon served as the Evans Family Foundation Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab. Hired as the inaugural Director in 2011, Gordon led the i-lab from launch to maturity with 600 ventures incubated and $250M raised in professional funding since opening while nurturing applied cross-disciplinary experiential learning experiences. Over the past 20 years, Gordon has leadership experience with startups, mid-sized, and Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries. He has also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Bentley University, teaching marketing to MBA and undergraduate students. He graduated from Brown University (BA) and earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
William has been involved in bringing Norwich’s curriculum to the online environment and in developing new continuing and distributed education programs serving students in several fields, particularly for the military. He currently leads 24 degree programs and six certificate programs for over 1,600 students in the university’s online programs. Norwich University also serves a significant proportion of military students as one of the U.S. Senior Military Colleges, and birthplace of ROTC. William has been involved in online education for over 20 years and helped build the current College of Graduate and Continuing Studies from a few master’s programs into a more comprehensive set of offerings at the undergraduate and master’s level since assuming his current leadership duties in 2005. He is presently leading the implementation of several new degree programs, a continuing and professional education unit, geographic expansion, and incorporation of best practices in online education and program structure for residential programs post-pandemic. In addition, William serves on accreditation teams for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and on the New England Board of Higher Education, State Authorization and Reciprocity Agreement Regional Steering Committee, and as a founding member of the Board of Trustees for The Holy Spirit […]
