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Katherine McKee

Associate Professor, Leadership Educator, NC State University

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

Professor, Department of Horticulture, NC State University

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.

Association Between Financial Aid and Graduation Rates: An Analysis of North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Joseph Opoku Gakpo

Ph.D. Candidate, NC State University

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

Associate Professor of Finance, Programme Chair, Dublin City University

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.

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Veena A

Associate Professor at the School of Business at RV University, India.

Veena A, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the School of Business at RV University, India.

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Juliette Price

Juliette Price

Founding Director, NASH Center for Postsecondary Improvement

Juliette Price serves as the Senior Improvement Science Coach at the Institute for Systems Innovation and Improvement at the National Association of Higher Education Systems, helping bring the discipline of improvement science and quality improvement methods into the higher education sector. She designed the NASH Improvement Model, which builds off of industry-leading improvement models and theory, and incorporates NASH’s expertise in how public higher education systems and campuses function as a key driver of economic mobility and democracy.

Price deeply believes that solutions to our most complex issues can be designed through systems thinking, collaborative problem solving, creating data-informed solutions, and bringing concepts and processes across sectors. She currently holds multiple roles across different sectors, including in health care, higher education, and social care.

Price focuses on using improvement science to help organizations improve and reach optimum performance. She is trained in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Improvement Model and routinely trains teams in the Model for Improvement and leads improvement collaboratives across many disciplines. She is a member of the American Society for Quality.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences on a wide variety of topics and provides training as a way to extend her acquired knowledge to others.

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Peter Wolk

LAW OFFICE OF PETER C. WOLK

Mr. Wolk is a lawyer who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College (CT), earned a Master of
Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Nonprofit Administration, Planning, and
Social Policy, and graduated with a juris doctor degree cum laude from American University’s Law

School.

Mr. Wolk’s practice focuses on tax exempt organizations. He represents the interests of national,
regional, and local nonprofit organizations of all kinds, including membership organizations, medical
societies, community charities, trade groups, Internet watchdog groups, educational groups, religious
organizations, international relief groups, amateur sports organizations, higher education entities,

health and environmental nonprofits, social welfare groups, and scientific research groups.

In his law practice, Mr. Wolk advises clients on day-to-day and strategic governance, inter-entity
transactions, joint ventures, nonprofit formation, corporate documents, mergers, tax, fund raising,
employment issues, intellectual property, overseeing outside litigation counsel, contracts, Board
meetings, and the permissible range of activities for tax-exempt organizations. His expertise extends
into conducting Board training retreats, legal audits, and strategic planning sessions. He has taught and

counseled scores of nonprofits of different tax status.

He teaches Nonprofit Law and Governance at American University and has taught Nonprofit Law for
the D.C. Bar for over 20 years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross

National Capital Chapter, and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington.

Mr. Wolk has twice been honored as Volunteer of the Year for the Arts, was lead legal counsel for the
enactment of the D.C. Nonprofit Volunteer Immunity Law, and has written The Art of Creating
Nonprofit Organizations (Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts), How to Develop Self-Sustaining Nonprofit Organizations (U.S. Department of Energy, Clean Cities Program), The Paper Chase: Non-

Profit Filings, Forms & Record Keeping, and served as Special Editor of Developing Fundraising Policies and Procedures.

He is the author of two editions of The Formbook for College and University Attorneys, comprised of

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.

His bar leadership activities have been honored by both the American Bar Association and the District

of Columbia Bar Association.

Mr. Wolk is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the
United States Supreme Court.

Kay Eilers

Associate Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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

Seth Zlotocha

University Registrar, Marquette University

University Registrar, Marquette University

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Tim Haight

Assistant Director of Financial Aid, Swarthmore College

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 

2025 SEM-EP Graduate

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Dr. Shelly Hsu

University Registrar - California State University, Fullerton

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.

Oleksii Golikov

Product Manager, Ellucian Transfer

Josh Gardiner

Director of Product Management, Ellucian

Khanoosh Venghat

Product Lead - QDox & Intelligent Document Processing, Quantiphi

Brian Herndon

National Sales Leader - Public Sector, Quantiphi

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Dr. Sasha Galbraith

CEO of Galbraith Management Consultants

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

Director of APSU’s GIS Center

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

Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Virginia Military Institute

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.

Using Esri Research to Enhance Campus Strategic Enrollment Marketing Efforts

 

 

Christy Walker

Dean of Equity & Well-Being at Central Oregon Community College

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.

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