Katherine McKee, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Leadership Educator in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University. She is the co-coordinator of The Oaks Leadership Scholars and co-editor of the book, Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy, and Activism.
Association Between Financial Aid and Graduation Rates: An Analysis of North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
John Dole, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, North Carolina State University. He is former interim dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and former Associate Dean of Academic Programs.
Joseph Opoku Gakpo is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University. He is a Graduate Research Assistant on the Student Success Project — a North Carolina Agricultural Foundation-funded project investigating factors that predict agricultural and life sciences students’ chances of success.
Sandeep Rao, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Programme Chair of the MSc in Finance at the DCU Business School in Dublin City University, Ireland.
Signaling of AEducation Institutions in India
Veena A, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the School of Business at RV University, India.
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health and environmental nonprofits, social welfare groups, and scientific research groups.
counseled scores of nonprofits of different tax status.
National Capital Chapter, and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington.
Profit Filings, Forms & Record Keeping, and served as Special Editor of Developing Fundraising Policies and Procedures.
approximately 700 pages of nonprofit contract and other legal forms.
He worked and testified on the revision of the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Code.
of Columbia Bar Association.
Since 2021, Eilers has been Associate Vice Chancellor and leader of the Division of Strategic Enrollment Management and Student Success, which is comprised of 11 departments and approximately 160 full-time employees.
Serving as the university’s chief enrollment officer, she spearheads the institution’s strategic enrollment management (SEM) planning process. During her tenure, UWM has increased incoming domestic student enrollment, fortified the institutional student aid strategy (including the introduction of the Milwaukee Tuition Promise program), reorganized career and experiential education services for students, and strengthened the university’s student success infrastructure.
Capstone: Ready or Not: Institutional self-assessment on readiness for SEM planning
2025 SEM-EP Graduate
University Registrar, Marquette University
Tim Haight is currently an Assistant Director of Financial Aid at Swarthmore College. He started his career in financial aid at the Community College of Allegheny County in 2018. He holds a B.A. in English Writing and an M.Ed in Higher Education Management, both from the University of Pittsburgh.
Capstone: Literature Review on The Impact of Course Scheduling on Strategic Enrollment Management
Shelly Hsu is the University Registrar at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), where she directs all facets of academic records, registration, transfer credit evaluation, degree audit, and enrollment reporting for more than 40,000 students. With 17 years of progressive leadership in public research and comprehensive universities, she excels at streamlining policy, technology, and service to advance student success. Hsu’s tenure at CSUF is defined by innovation and measurable results. She led the first CSU‑system launch of the uAchieve Planner, giving undergraduates term‑by‑term roadmaps that integrate seamlessly with PeopleSoft registration.
Her team’s automation of transfer‑credit workflows, cutting evaluation turnaround time, partnered with IT to batch undergraduate degree conferral, which awarded 9,000 degrees in a single night with zero manual touchpoints annually. Shelly is an active member of ̽»¨Â¥, PACRAO (where she currently serves as Vice President for Membership), and EDUCAUSE. Shelly earned her Ed.D. from California State University Fullerton, M.Ed. from Ohio University, and a B.A. from National Taipei University. Outside the office, she mentors emerging higher‑ed leaders, and enjoys exploring Southern California with her husband and daughter.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith is the CEO of Galbraith Management Consultants, an international consulting firm specializing in solving strategy and organization design challenges across corporate, business unit and geographical levels. Her expertise in strategy and organization design has enabled her to develop a particular focus on senior executive women and women entrepreneurs. She provides consulting and training services to large multi-national organizations on management and corporate performance issues. Dr. Galbraith is the author of Anatomy of a Business: What it is, what it does and how it works, an instructive and entertaining look at business from every angle for the layperson. She has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Huffington Post. Her writings explore women-founded and -designed organizations and how they differ from traditional, masculine organizations.
Michael Wilson is the Director of APSU’s GIS Center and has worked on numerous local, state, and federal projects and grants. In the past 20 years, he has mentored and trained numerous APSU graduates who are now working in both the public and private sectors. Wilson received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, his M.S. in Geosciences from Murray State University, and his B.S. in Geology from Kutztown University.
Using Esri Research to Enhance Campus Strategic Enrollment Marketing Efforts
Andrew L. Luna is Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Virginia Military Institute. He has served nearly 40 years in in higher education, with almost 30 of those years in institutional research. He has published research studies on many topics including market research, assessment, quality improvement, and salary studies. Luna received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in higher education administration and his M.A. and B.A. degrees in journalism all from The University of Alabama.
Christy Walker is the Dean of Equity & Well-Being at Central Oregon Community College. Her professional background includes administrative and leadership positions within the office of diversity and inclusion and student affairs. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in tourism and outdoor leadership with a focus on experiential education from Oregon State University-Cascades and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from Portland State University. She facilitates various trainings on equity, diversity, and inclusion for COCC and the Central Oregon community.
Avanza, The Good Road, and LEAD: College Access Programs the SEM Connection
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