Edwin Mayes

As director, Edwin is responsible for the leadership and vision of programs for first year and transfer students and parents and families. He works closely with the student success initiative, enrollment management, residence life, and other internal and external partners to support students’ successful transition from high school through their first year at the university. […]

Create an Alumni Volunteer Experience that Fosters Life-Long Engagement with Your Institution

ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS Training Package Enjoy this recorded 3-part series, plus a bonus Q&A recording available only to members, which will provide strategies and new approaches to improve alumni volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and recognition, so you can get the most out of your relationships with your volunteers. Alumni volunteers are critical to the success of any […]

Karen M. Whitney, EdD

I work with higher education leaders to be courageous, confident, successful leaders. Throughout her 40-year career in higher education, Dr. Karen Whitney has held a variety of executive and leadership positions with increasing levels of responsibility, beginning as a Director to Associate Vice President, Vice Chancellor, President, and Chancellor. Karen is a nationally recognized organizational […]

Enrolling and Supporting Women in STEM: Practical Steps to Take

During a tour early this summer of the Colorado School of Mines, I had the opportunity to hear from a number of women enrolled in the geophysics and engineering programs there, and to speak with Stephanie Berry, the former director of CSM’s innovative WISEM (Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics) program. WISEM is certainly a program […]

Diane J. Goldsmith

Diane has over 25 years experience in higher education in a variety of roles including teaching, student affairs, strategic planning, research, grant writing, and e-learning. Until July 2011, she served as the executive director of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC), a state higher education consortium whose mission is to promote quality e-learning. She led […]

Supporting Adjunct Faculty: A Training for Department Chairs

Most academic departments today employ adjunct faculty, but few Chairs are well-versed in the ins and outs of managing them. Adjuncts face unique challenges orienting to and integrating within the department, and as a Chair you must figure out how to support them effectively to ensure maximum productivity and a positive experience for both students […]

Michael Kabbaz

In his role as Senior Vice President, Kabbaz serves as the University’s first chief enrollment and retention officer and a member of the President’s Executive Cabinet and Council of Academic Deans. Kabbaz provides leadership to the Offices of Admission, Bursar, Career Center, Enrollment Communication and Marketing, Enrollment Operations, One Stop Services, Enrollment Research and Analytics, […]

Graduate Enrollment Marketing: Non-Digital Tactics That Work

Marketing graduate degree programs is both an art and a science, and we wanted to take a deep look at who is doing this well — and how they’re doing it. In this series of four articles (you’re reading the fourth), we ask an expert panel four questions to explore the changing landscape of graduate […]

Dr. Peter Cornish

Dr. Peter Cornish is currently enjoying an 18-month sabbatical in Saskatoon after serving in the Director position at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 2003. Memorial’s Student Wellness and Counselling Centre is an academic and service unit with a focus on interprofessional wellness programming, training, and research. His clinical and research interests include online mental health, […]

5 Key Skills to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Team

The need for interdisciplinary research is growing. As a research development professional (RDP), figuring out how to bring partners across disciplines together to fuel creativity and collaboration is tricky. You’re managing tensions around roles and credit, and you’re helping to translate between researchers who may value very different things. Join us online to learn and […]