Collaborate with all constituencies to cultivate, create, enhance, and implement partnerships with corporate and business leaders, military, the non-profit sector, P-12 education, community colleges, civic organizations, and individuals, to strengthen the institution's academic and leadership role and foster mutual benefits.Direct and meaningful professional engagement with agencies, businesses, chambers of commerce, city and county government officials, industries, and schools in the state's largest metropolitan area, including advisory board service and workforce development group participation.

Recently, I successfully completed my participation in AALI's Executive Leadership Academy, a year-long program to prepare experienced college and university C-level officers to become successful presidents and chancellors. Career Highlights:Provided visionary, dynamic yet pragmatic and steady leadership for success in strategic planning, program innovation, and personnel and budget management to address multiple challenges faced by today’s universities in engaging students to enroll, persist, and succeed academically, personally, and professionally, supported by flexible, hands-on, applied-learning environments Direct experience articulating colleges’ missions and core values, serving as an effective public spokesperson, steadfast advocate, and committed presence, to provide informed, inspirational, and team-centered leadership on campus, online, and in communities, focused on accountability, respect, diversity, and inclusion18 years of demonstrated understanding of and commitment to community colleges’ missions, prioritizing workforce development, transfer pathways, and career success, working directly with the state’s Community College System leadership and individual community colleges’ faculty, staff, and students In-depth understanding of, leadership in, and commitment to early adoption of promising nationally emerging methods and trends that increase student success inside and outside the classroom, with active engagement in friendraising and fundraising that provide resources for performance excellence and sustainability Transformed strategic plans into actions, ensured implementation, tracked and reported successes using data, balanced risks/benefits, and adjusted actions as needed, positioning universities as destinations for inspired learners and doers Managed portfolio budgets exceeding $16 million in research funding, $17 million in personnel, and helped generate universities’ revenue policies for budgets exceeding $150 million

Engaged nationally in Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored initiative tointroduce art students in gateway courses to 3D scanning, file creation/manipulation, file sharing, and printing technology, to expand and improvelearning through technology in the visual arts and open avenues for arts graduatesas sustainable, locally and globally engaged teachers, makers, and entrepreneursEstablished a rapport with multiple constituencies, including the Governor’s Office, Legislature and state agencies, institutional boards of trustees, businesses, and residents from all parts of the state to advance common agendas, including meeting business, industrial, scientific, and workforce needsGrew programs to address industry/ societal needs, expanding organizational, fiscal, and physical capacity and collaborating on data-informed strategies to ensure service to the region’s working adult students, keeping tuition costs the most affordable in the State while sustaining long-term financial stability (adding 25 new degree programs, options, and certificates during three years as Provost)Led faculty, staff, students, and wider community and worked directly with Board members in developing an AGB-compliant Statement on Civility and Inclusion, personally hosting a series of town halls and Board presentations that led to community-wide endorsement and trustee adoption of the Statement Led diversity and multicultural initiatives creating and carrying out Diversity Strategic Plan to increase support for success of underrepresented populations Managed complex and diverse relationships, built consensus, and practiced unquestionable integrity, applying an open-door, active-listening approach

Led Offices of Academic Affairs, Graduate Studies, and International Programs, providing multiple-campus coordination, planning, and policy development and oversight.Supervised and coordinated all aspects of graduate education within the university and worked with all graduate programs to implement policies that support the recruitment and academic achievement of graduate students.Led Graduate Council and its committees on policies, procedures and curriculum toward continuing improvement and innovation of graduate programs.Worked with state and national committees and associations involved with graduate studies.Exercised final authority to approve all theses and dissertations submitted for graduate degrees.Directed a network of departmental/program Graduate Program Directors to advise the Dean's Office on graduate affairs.Coordinated the university’s participation in program review of academic programs with graduate program components.Worked to create, foster, enrich and increase opportunities for graduate research on campus.

Presented and published internationally on the topic of faculty diversity; leadership in development of diversity strategic planning, mentoring for underrepresented faculty, and civility and inclusion initiatives. Teaching and research in Holocaust Studies; scholarship in Film Studies, Indigenous Studies, Irish Studies, Reformation and Counter-Reformation Studies, Post-colonial Studies and Semeiotics.

Served as Senior International Officer, Sponsored Programs Officer, and Institutional Research Board Executive Secretary for over 10 years.

I fostered collaboration across interest groups to form consensus among multiple program constituencies with competing needs, thereby identifying common grounds for allocating resources to realize the creation of a Humanities and World Cultures Institute. Coordinated with executive leadership team to expand Honors Programs, Laptop Campus initiative and Residential College initiatives.

Served as Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and also served on the following college-wide committees:Chair: Computer Resource and International Education Committees. Member: Assessment Committee, Campus Fiber Optics Subcommittee of the Computer Resource Committee, Curriculum Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Institutional Self-Study Team, Nursing Program Accreditation Committee and Presidential Scholarship Committee.Faculty representative/ liaison to Board of Trustees.

Taught English, English as a Second Language, German and World Literature. Also served as Coordinator for English as a Second Language.

Transcribed 450-year-old texts employing self-developed proprietary fonts.

Taught German and Dutch language, literature and culture

Coordinated and taught third-year component in study abroad program in Austria.

Taught three semesters of stand-alone German language sections

Taught high school English to German students prepping for exit exams under the auspices of the Fulbright-Kommission and Pädagogischer Austauschdienst.