• Drawing on academic experience in nearly a dozen nations, provided insight into international best practices to clients in four countries;• Conducted needs assessment with management, faculty, students, and staff in the areas of admissions, marketing, student services, library resources, instructional technology, pedagogy, and academic programming;• Presented on such subjects as higher education in the digital era; improving student service with technological tools; innovation, creativity, and sustainability; effectively managing marketing and increasing enrollment; adapting to emerging trends in higher education data management; student research methods; equipping faculty with library databases; and 21st-century tools for tertiary educators;• Developed online and blended business curriculum according to international best practices, training faculty in advanced digital pedagogy;• Advised senior leadership regarding comprehensive communication systems, student information systems, learning management systems, organizational structures, human resource policies, departmental budgets, community culture-shaping, and practices in celebrating success; and • Engaged Board members on issues of governance, committee structures, succession planning, presidential selection, and fundraising.

Second-largest academic division, with approximately 50 full-time and 50 part-time facultycovering 8 programs with over 800 students and 40% of General Education (33 units). Responsible for• Building internship placement programs integrated with academic curriculum, and • Leading Academic Program Reviews (five-year assessment) across 7 programs.

• Coordinate conversations on faculty policy (such as promotion criteria) between administrators, personnel committees, departments, and individual faculty;• Promote consistency in coaching and advising faculty on promotion across all levels;• Implement industry best practices to tailor individual faculty development plans;• Oversee and promote faculty professional development, including processing travel requests, administering faculty travel budget line, and partnering with chairs to support faculty scholarship;• Support collaborative research among faculty, across disciplines, and involving students;• Train faculty in strategies for securing internal and external grants;• Partner with Advancement and external entities to pursue grants related to the liberal arts.

• Sponsored innovation rooted in historical commitments to whole-person, liberal arts education;• Identified best practices regarding faculty load and compensation, using data from a wide range of private liberal arts and public U.S. institutions;• Identified best practices for structuring academic administration, as defined by 30 provosts and presidents nationwide; and• Drafted the executive profile and Board brief for the Dean of the new School of Sciences, Technology and Health.

• Educated executive leadership, faculty, and staff about disruptive market forces in such areas as transformative technologies, unbundled educational alternatives, micro-credentialing, and affordability;• Designed university responses to such factors as competency-based education, emerging freelance markets, shifting demographics, and non-traditional student needs;• Established regular communication and collaboration between the Provost’s office, deans, and senior directors of non-academic divisions; • Mapped and integrated workflows in support services such as Marketing and Enrollment Management;• Built evaluation and implementation processes for new programs with input from academic leadership, Enrollment Management, Facilities Planning, Finance, Financial Aid, IT, Marketing, and the Registrar;• Improved processes and development plans through input from Advancement, Digital Learning, Information Technology, Library, Student Services, University Assessment, and University Planning;• Created cross-campus buy-in for and participation in new program development;• Shifted development strategies based on market data, determination of indirect costs, enrollment trends, and accreditation requirements;• Led faculty exploration of and training in new delivery modalities and methods, such as flipped classrooms, screencasting, and individualized digital curriculum; • Expedited consideration and/or approval of 23 new low-residency (online, blended, or off-campus) and 15 traditional programs;• Assisted $9.4 million drive for enhanced technology in a $180m capital campaign.

• Developed integrated Fall and Spring courses involving over a dozen professors from as many disciplines;• Coordinated curriculum and programming with IRIS Inquiry and IRIS Online (below).

• Built teams to design, teach, film, edit, market, and assess interdisciplinary, integrated curriculum with high production values crafted for digital markets;• Supervised assessment of courses using both IRIS and departmental PLOs;• Increased gender diversity with 4 female staff leaders (of 6 full-time hires);• Built team consisting of Operations Manager, Coordinator of Online Learning and Assessment, Logistics and Recruitment Coordinator, Marketing and Communications Strategist, Production Manager, Lead Editor, Audio-Visual Technician, film crew, and student workers;• Coordinated with Digital Learning, University Communications & Marketing, Finance, and academic departments to advance strategic university goals.

• Launched interdisciplinary, team-taught core curriculum program integrating faith and learning across numerous fields with application to daily life;• Coordinated curriculum with some 6 deans and 13 chairs for interterm, semester, and summer classes, using traditional, blended, and online delivery;• Grew program from 7 to 12 integrated interterm courses involving over 30 professors in 16 disciplines serving over 1,000 students from 40 majors;• Consistently received outstanding student qualitative and quantitative feedback (averaging 4.91/5.0).

• Led academic futurist think-tank comprising 12 faculty leaders;• Developed 29 proposals for institutional advancement, including modular trimesters, offerings for non-traditional students, 3+1 degrees, and a four-year graduation guarantee.

• Supervised 11 full-time faculty and 29–35 adjuncts;• Secured funding for three new faculty and staff positions;• Developed concentrations in Honors Graduate School Preparation and Global and Ethnic Literatures;• Founded and led the off-campus Biola Shakespeare program for 12 years;• Facilitated research programs for faculty and students at Downing College and Tyndale House, Cambridge, U.K.• Founded departmental and regional student conferences;• Founded academic and creative student journals, with editorial teams;• Established alumni and internship student coordinators;• Created and led the Professional Development Task Force;• Created and led 6 student organizations, including the Guild of English Scholars;• Sponsored 4 student and alumni organizations, including Mu Kappa;• Organized 12 interdisciplinary faculty-student honors discussion groups;• Served as External Examiner for the WASC Self-Study of Azusa Pacific University’s English Department;• Led 11 teams in WASC five-year, 507-page, departmental accreditation study; • Served on the WASC Single Subjects Standards Committee and WASC Educational Effectiveness Draft Reviewing Team;• Participated in WASC Workshops of the Meaning, Quality, & Integrity of Degrees; and Teaching and Assessing the English Major;• Hired 4 minority and/or international female faculty (of 4 faculty hires total);• Participated in the Coalition of the Willing for Diversity Leadership, and the Gender Climate Reading Group; and• Developed departmental fundraising strategies and endowment accounts.

• Established a consortium for the study of medieval sermons, securing a National Endowment for the Humanities’ Collaborative Research Grant, a NEH Fellowship, a CCCU Initiative Grant, and institutional funding for research and publications;• Supervised a team of 42 faculty and students at 15 institutions in 5 countries, editing texts from primary manuscripts in 11 international libraries;• Used digital enhancement and TEI/XML encoding to edit Anglo-Saxon homilies.