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West Lafayette, In, Us

West Lafayette, In, Us

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Serve on the Purdue Veterinary Medicine Administrative Council• Implement strategic plans and collect/interpret impact metrics of events• Administer continuing education programming for veterinary professionals• Work directly with faculty to plan and provide education opportunities for clients, stakeholders, and the general public• Assess the impact of existing and new educational and training programs• Facilitate communications and foster relationships with internal/external constituents• Manage live, synchronous events, as well as virtual conferences and symposiums• Develop asynchronous online educational models• Ensure quality control of compliance in documentation for all activities• Act as the College administrator for the continuing education online portal through The World Continuing Education Alliance• Effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously

West Lafayette, In

• Supervise five master’s level professionals• Chair and oversee residential curriculum for a system of over 14,000 residents• Chair leadership series of 5 key-note speaker events and a service learning event with students, faculty, staff and alumni• Chair professional staff competencies workgroup• Serve on senior level crisis response on-call • Manage and assist with recruitment of professional staff• Propose, review and approve budget, purchasing and travel• Chair student staff recruitment committee tasked with recruiting 340+ student staff• Direct vision and path of neighborhood, including development of curricular events• Oversee wellness checks and student in crisis response for neighborhood• Work with faculty in residence to provide opportunities for residents to engage• Utilize Maxient to ensure proper handling of conduct cases by hearing officers• Act as hearing officer for high level conduct • Supervise preschool director and ESL program instructor (2015-2017)• Collaborate with facilities and administration assistant directors to ensure student concerns are properly addressed• Attend weekly meetings with fire department, police department and dean of students to discuss high level student concerns and crisis situations

Morehead, Ky

• Train and supervise six professional master’s level staff members• Design and implement campus-wide assessment to determine satisfaction of housing facilities, programs and policies• Plan and implement recruitment and selection of professional and student staff• Oversee training programs for professional and student staff• Implement comprehensive residence education programming model• Serve as member of crisis management on-call• Utilize Datatel and Colleague to make room assignments and room changes• Bill students for damages and core changes via Datatel• Upload and maintain swipe card access for all residential staff and students• Collaborate with other departments to improve retention of residential students• Maintain and update department website• Represent department at recruitment events• Manage programming budget for department• Develop and maintain student staff handbook• Plan and implement evaluation protocol for professional and student staff• Develop and implement guidelines for residence hall openings and closings• Create annual report on programs and activities provided by department• Meet with University Design & Construction regularly for renovation and new building updates and discussion• Work with athletic coaches to determine athletic housing placement• Oversee summer conference staff, including recruitment and training• Develop living-learning communities and maintain their effectiveness

Saint Louis, Mo

M.A., Higher Education Administration

Graduated with 4.0 GPA

B.S., Special Education / Elementary Education

Activities and Societies: Honors Program, Residence Life, Campus Crusade, Bradley Fellows Program