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Expanding and augmenting the work of the Network in preparing leaders in social work. This is through a contract with Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work.

• Provided a vision to enhance access and affordability by lowering MSW credit hours to 49 (from 60) to prepare early career professionals• Conceptualized, as part of the Greater Good Initiative, MA in Public Service Leadership with tracks in Disaster Management/Emergency Preparedness and Global Social Development – Launch in Fall 2022• Appointed member of the Social Work Education Health Futures Lab Advisory Committee - Portland State University - Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation• Chair of Task Force to create a new College by subsuming up to 4 professional schools (Paused)• Chair of Task Force to streamline university wide Institutes, Centers, and Clinics (Ongoing)• Part of a team in developing a Middle East-South Asia Strategy for inbound and outbound recruitment for LUC• Provided vision and engaged various stakeholders to invest, develop and implement the first online bi-lingual (English/Spanish) MSW program in the US Mainland. Advocated with President and start-up received: $750,000• Helped move the School up in US News & World Report rankings to #28 from #53 in five years.• Reorganized budget to reallocate resources to institute 2 Ph.D scholarships (Ignatian Fellows for Social Justice) to recruit and engage African American; LatinX; and Native American scholar-students• Reconstituted organizational structure to align and augment faculty/staff into roles that are more operationally efficient and responsive to stakeholders and the mission of the University.• Use PowerBI tools to analyze data on program resources to improve efficiency, enhance, maintain, consolidate, and/or sunset programs (Carthage College, WI campus).

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• Under guidance from the Provost's Office, negotiated with corporate entities through RFP’s to select an Online Program Management Company to plan, develop and implement online programs for the university; Launched the first online MSW program with differential tuition, in Nevada, to enable students to earn a graduate degree with lower student debt primarily from rural and frontier locations across the country• Increased MSW enrollment from 45 students to 240 student in 3 years• Worked with HUD and non-profit agencies and provided thought leadership to institute a Community Land Trust in the City of Reno to curb gentrification

• Worked with a team to develop the first MSW program in a public university in San Antonio tailored to non-traditional; first generation students (mainly LatinX).• Expanded scholarship opportunities for study abroad for the university• Consultant with the US Army Base in San Antonio to provide training on cultural competence for their officers.

• Co-developed and taught an interdisciplinary course with the College of Law on “Human Trafficking”. Live, interactive class with students and faculty from Indonesia; Germany; and the US - 2001.• As chair of the 13th International Symposium of the International Consortium for Social Development in Mumbai, India, facilitated academic and logistical aspects of the conference.

Organized and chaired 5 (five) Technology in Social Work Education & Practice conferences; Edited 3 books; Launched the first online, open source, journal, 'Electronic Journal of Social Work" (not in function anymore due to leadership priority change); Leadership in distance education nationally

Social Worker in the broadest sense of the word: Case Manager; Community Organizer; Public Education Practitioner; Public Relations; Fund Raising; Field Internship Supervisor (Students from Ohio State); Researcher.