Instructors
Reggie is responsible for management of the Northern Illinois University Alumni Association, including board relations, financial and staff management, and programmatic success. Reggie started in alumni relations more than ten years ago, initially focused on geographic chapters and affinity groups, before branching out into volunteer management and engagement metrics. Drawing on his business background, he […]
Dr. Scott Sportsman serves as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Senior Director of Research and Analytics in the Enrollment Management and Student Success (EMSS) division at Miami University. As CSO, he assists the Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success with developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining division-wide priorities and high-priority initiatives and projects. […]
Before joining VCC, Dr. McNaughton was an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina and held decanal positions at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, and Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was also Vice-President Academic & Research at the University College of the North in The Pas, Manitoba, for […]
Marlene Kowalski has more than 20 years’ experience leading strategic business services and organizational transformation. She has spent the majority of her career as leader of financial operations and change in dynamic and complex environments, in both the public and private sectors. Marlene has experience in many industries including, post-secondary education (college and university), aviation, […]
Patrick Bredehoft is the Director of Alumni Interview Program at the University of Pennsylvania. In that capacity, he manages over 20,000 alumni volunteers who collectively support the Penn Admissions Office as university ambassadors. During the past eight years, he has helped to triple the size and scope of Penn’s Interview Program, while significantly improving the […]
Howard Gadlin retired after serving as Ombudsman and Director of the Center for Cooperative Resolution, at the National Institutes of Health since the beginning of 1999. Before that, from 1992 through 1998, he was University Ombudsperson and Adjunct Professor of Education at UCLA. He was also director of the UCLA Conflict Mediation Program and co-director […]
Laura Anderson provides leadership on the development and operational implementation of initiatives aimed at driving enrollment and supporting students in navigating their unique college pathways. She helped to establish the first-ever virtual recruitment strategy for World Camps Admission Services, including the development, execution, and management of webinars that grew from two webinars in AY 2013-14 […]
Milton D. Cox is founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at Miami University where he initiated and continues to direct the annual Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching, now in its 39th year. He is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, […]
Eduardo Prieto is an enrollment management professional whose twenty-six year career in higher education has included service at both public and private higher education institutions in four different states. In his current role, he is responsible for all enrollment functions, including undergraduate admissions, recruitment, and financial aid. Eduardo has led or been part of record-setting […]
Jennifer Schoen is passionate about helping first-generation college students get into and graduate from college. Jennifer has spent the last 30 years in higher education working with underrepresented students in both admission and retention roles. Currently, Jennifer is the director of the Opportunity Scholarship and Outreach Office at Northeastern University in Boston. She coordinates an […]
