Stephanie Rankin

Stephanie and colleagues developed and launched the CSS in 2003 as a comprehensive academic support services resource for faculty, staff, and students. Academic Advising, Career Services, Counseling Services, Disability Services, and Learning Services comprise the CSS. Stephanie is a member of the college’s Enrollment Management and Retention Committees and chairs the Campus Wellness Network (CWN). […]

Lisa Endersby

Lisa is currently a doctoral student pursuing a PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Windsor. Her work is within the stream of Cognition and Learning, where she is exploring online communities of practice as a medium for professional development for student affairs professionals. She is also the National Chair of the NASPA Technology […]

Handling Institutional or Program Teach-Outs with Dignity

For students and staff, institution and academic program closures often come with little warning. They can trigger shock and grief. If you’re an institutional leader, these same closures can leave you feeling disoriented and unprepared. How do you shift your focus from retaining students to getting rid of students? For something so complex, how do […]

Kristin Jones

Krissy leads the development and implementation of competency-based and performance-based programs. Over the past several years, she has led multiple programs through the research, design, development and implementation of various institutional programs, along with outside corporation and district partnerships at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Previously, Krissy was a curriculum and instruction coach for […]

Wendy Dittmann, Ed.D.

Wendy is responsible, with the advisement of the major program committee, for the curriculum of the management program at UW-Stout, and is charged with aiding students in meeting all requirements of the program. She is also a lecturer in the operations and management department on topics including online and interactive television delivery of courses. Wendy […]

Margie Bader

Margie completed a master’s in social service at Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research in Pennsylvania. She is a South African qualified counseling psychologist. Margie’s career spans more than twenty years in the fields of education and counseling at the university and college level, both in Johannesburg and Toronto. A highlight of […]

Taking a Proactive Approach to Leading Change

In the current environment, change is no longer an infrequent ‘initiative’ that needs managing—it is all around us, it is constant, and it is not going away. But this does not mean that leaders should give up their autonomy: In too many cases, we experience change as happening to us (reactive stance) instead of proactively […]

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