Beth Throne, J.D.

In 2011, Beth returned to Franklin & Marshall College (F&M), her alma mater, charged with reenvisioning the way the college prepares students for life, and not just work, after college. This challenge resulted in the creation of F&M’s Office of Student and Post-Graduate Development (OSPGD). Launched in 2012, OSPGD absorbed F&M’s Career Services office, along […]

Fundraising for Department Chairs

At its core, fundraising is storytelling. How effectively you tell your story, who you choose to tell your story to, and how you demonstrate the impact of fundraising dollars once raised will ultimately determine your success as a fundraiser. The good news is you are already doing much of this work by advocating internally at […]

Amy Poland

Amy has led the St. Joseph’s College Online team from the launch of the online campus in 2015 with less than 100 students to a campus of over 500 students today. Beyond leading her own team, her responsibilities include working collaboratively with marketing, enrollment management, informational technology, and academics to deliver high-quality online courses and […]

Dr. Chris Davis

In over two decades in higher education, Dr. Davis has served in a variety of leadership and faculty roles at multiple universities in both the non-profit and for-profit sector. He started his career in higher education as an adjunct faculty member at Baker College in Michigan in 1997. He joined the faculty at Baker full-time […]

Emily Dennis, Ph.D.

Emily provides leadership, design, development, implementation, change management and ongoing improvement efforts for employee and high potential talent development, workforce identification, and succession planning efforts.  Prior to joining CMU in 2019, Emily served as a HR Partner and Talent Development Manager at West Virginia University and worked as a Professional Development Manager for the Pennsylvania […]

Report: The Skills Future Higher-Ed Leaders Need to Succeed

How do you lead when there is no map? When the territory is unknown? The swift pace of change and the complexity of the challenges facing our colleges and universities is immense, and is testing the abilities of our institutions’ leaders. The playbook of the past does not offer a sustainable path forward for all […]

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

Create an Alumni Volunteer Experience that Fosters Life-Long Engagement with Your Institution Enjoy this recorded 3-part series, plus a bonus Q&A recorded session for 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 […]

Learning Hubs | Go in depth on key issues

LEARNING HUBS Go in depth on key issues Watch video interviews with the experts, read our best articles and reports, see upcoming conferences, and peruse our books and assessments. Academic Affairs Is Your Academic Program Portfolio Still Relevant? You Acted, We Answered: Moving Instruction Online Advancement Advancement Training, Resources, and Experts You Can Count on […]

Mary McGuinness

Mary McGuinness creates environments for innovation, taps multiple intelligences, and provokes new ways of thinking and doing. She helps her clients to maximize their potential to create and execute ambitious plans for themselves, and for the organizations and teams they lead. Mary is a leadership development specialist and ICF-certified executive coach who partners with her […]

Martin Margala

Martin received the M.S. degree in microelectronics from Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 1990 and 1998, respectively. Between 1998 and 2007, he was with the University of Alberta and the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. He […]