As a Librarian, Project Leader and Manager at Aaron Cohen Associates (ACA), Alex Cohen heads a library-consulting firm with over 40 years of experience working with all types of libraries. His expertise includes space-planning assessments, improving efficiency, and special collection/archives management; academic libraries worldwide have benefited from his work. His goal is to ensure that […]
Serving as a laboratory planner and designer at RFD, Mark combines his broad architectural experience with a keen personal interest in serving the science and technology community. With over thirty years of planning, design, and project management experience, Mark has been responsible for over four million square feet of new and renovated research, educational, government, […]
Faramarz Vakili is the director of campus sustainability operations and the associate director of the Physical Plant Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His responsibilities include overseeing facilities maintenance, in-house remodeling, utilities generation and distribution, fleet management, and sustainability operations on a campus of 300 buildings and over 20 million gross square feet of instructional […]
By Gordon E. Harvey, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor & Department Chair,Jacksonville State University Thinking about becoming a department chair? Here’s what I wish someone had told me when I started. As a junior faculty member, I envisioned a life of teaching and writing, but never one of supervision and leadership. To be sure, I still teach […]
Department budgeting requires more than just tracking revenue and expenses in a spreadsheet. This video course presents you with the tools, tips, and knowledge you need to plan for, create, manage, and communicate about your department’s budget in a strategic and meaningful way, ensuring the needs of your students, faculty, and staff are fully met. […]
Andrea has more than eleven years of event planning and fundraising experience. Andrea recently changed roles at Marquette, where she was previously the director of the affinity-based giving team. In that role, she led a team of three that was responsible for Marquette’s alumni reunion giving program, affinity giving, parent programming and fundraising, faculty and […]
In her current position, Laura directs the college’s workforce development, contract training, and outreach to business and industry. She also has served as a consultant to the Global Corporate College, a network of colleges providing training solutions for national and international business. She developed and managed the nationally recognized workforce development program “School at Work,” […]
As Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management and Director of Student Financial Services, Brent Shock provides leadership to the offices of Student Financial Assistance and the Bursar. In addition to ensuring compliance with the awarding of federal, state, and University aid programs, he works closely with EMSS senior leadership to ensure that enrollment and student […]
As institutions deal with depleting capital funding sources, public private partnerships (P3s) remain a particularly viable source of capital funding for the housing sector. However, as competition in the private sector grows, institutions must leverage the RFP process to ensure their needs are met within a financially sustainable project. To do this, colleges and universities […]
Ms. Kopecky, previously held the position of Vice President for Academic Operations and Finance at California State University Fullerton. There she served as the Academic Affairs division manager for fiscal and facility resources for 150 departments, serving more than 40,000 students at CSUF. With 25 years of education management experience (including strategic initiatives, planning and […]
