Valerie Gil

Valerie Gill serves IU as the Associate Vice President for Business Partnerships. In this role, she provides the strategic direction, oversight, and infrastructure for university efforts to create dynamic business partnerships, as well as oversee IU’s Office of Licensing and Trademarks. Valerie joined IU in 2008 as Indiana University’s Director of Licensing and Trademarks. In […]

4 Things STEAM Could Achieve on Your Campus

Ask any ten academic professionals, “What is STEAM?” and you are likely to get ten different answers. Yet, intuitively, they would agree that STEAM is important and probably have incorporated at least one STEAM facility into their master planning. (Broadly speaking, STEAM represents the productive intersection of STEM with the arts and humanities.  Other definitions […]

Ashlyn W. Sowell

For over twenty-five years Ashlyn W. Sowell has enjoyed a career in development. Her first position was as Director of Development for The Children’s House at Johns Hopkins and The Grant-A-Wish Foundation (now known as the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation). From there she moved to her alma mater, Duke University, serving as Annual Fund […]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Do the Work. Be Part of the Solution.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Do the work to be part of the solution. ON-DEMAND TRAINING Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Engaging in Dialogue About Race and Bias Join us for this training to gain confidence in entering conversations about race and inequity. See for yourself why 9 out of 10 customers recommend our online learning.   […]

Deirdre G. Pitts, Ph.D., SCP-IPMA

Deirdre has over 30 years of experience in Human Resource administration in the areas of retail management, health administration, municipal government, and higher education. In her current role, Deirdre is responsible for the coordination of programs that assist faculty in the advancement of their career paths, including the successful achievement of promotion and tenure. Her […]

Kathleen Diemer

Kathleen Diemer, CFRE, currently serves as Associate Vice President of Advancement Relations at George Mason University. In her role at Mason, she oversees the donor relations, advancement communications, prospect research and management, and information technology and reporting teams. In addition, she played a key role in helping to steer the success of the university’s $500 […]

William E. Culton, Jr.

As General Counsel of Corvias Group, Bill is known for his insatiable appetite for knowledge and keen focus on providing legal services and support to help our businesses grow and improve. Bill joined Corvias in 2001 and leads the company’s in-house and outside teams responsible for legal oversight of business strategy, transactions, operations and litigation. […]

Andrew T. Phillips

Mr. Phillips joined JLL in May 2015 as a Vice President with the Public Institutions group. Located in San Diego, CA, he provides real estate development, financial and market analysis, and neighborhood revitalization advisory services to public sector and higher education clients in the western United States. He currently performs analysis on alternative public and […]

FERPA Checklist: What Can Never Be Shared

In Academic Impressions’ online FERPA training (you can order this online training here), FERPA expert Helen Garrett, the university registrar and chief officer of enrollment information services at the University of Washington, and recent president of PACRAO (the Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers), gave a thorough review of the fundamentals of FERPA regulations […]

O’Neil Outar

O’Neil A.S. Outar serves as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at the Rhode Island School of Design. As a member of the President’s Cabinet, his responsibilities include fundraising, alumni and family relations, and Museum engagement. Under his leadership since 2018, opportunities for alumni and family engagement have expanded dramatically, and RISD has had the best […]