Mitchell Gilbert Email & Phone Number

Hinsdale, IL, US

 Supervise the work of the Regulatory Affairs team and the State Authorization team Create and manage university and department strategic initiatives. Create and maintain strategic partnerships with associations and institutions to further advance WGU’s strategic initiatives. Provided guidance on proposed or implemented legislation or regulatory.

Create and manage university and department strategic initiatives. Create and maintain strategic partnerships with associations and institutions to further advance WGU’s strategic initiatives. Provided guidance on proposed or implemented legislation or regulatory changes to the VP of Compliance & Accreditation, functional area leadership, and Government.

• Supervise the work of the Compliance Specialists.
• Ensure data analytics for regulatory tracking, trust index, and risk-benefit analyses are up-to-date;
• Maintain a multi-state tracking system to monitor pending changes and changes to legislation, regulation, and policies/procedures that may or will affect WGU’s students and operations.
• Monitor and report on planned or implemented changes in the standards and requirements of national, regional, and state approval agencies across the entire country.
• Provided guidance on proposed or implemented legislation or regulatory changes to the VP of Compliance & Accreditation, functional area leadership, and Government Relations personnel
• In collaboration with functional-area managers, build and maintain strategic, external relationships;

• Lead a team of 4 employees
• Maintain a multi-state tracking system to monitor chatter, pending changes, and changes to legislation, regulation, and policies/procedures that may or will affect WGU’s students and operations. Monitor and report on.
• Develop a trust index matrix
• Represent the University at state board meeting and spoke on the position of WGU has taken on any of their proposed regulation changes
• In conjunction with other personnel and departments, prepared annual, ad hoc, and program reports for national, regional, and state approval agencies
• Assisted in the preparation of site visits Presentations:

• Created and maintain a multi-state tracking system to monitor chatter, pending changes, and changes to legislation, regulation, and policies/procedures that may or will affect WGU’s students and operations. Monitor and.
• Represent the University at state board meeting and spoke on the position of WGU has taken on any of their proposed regulation changes
• In conjunction with other personnel and departments, prepared annual, ad hoc, and program reports for national, regional, and state approval agencies
• Assisted in the preparation of site visits Presentations:
• WCET Annual Conference – Denver, CO. - October 2017 – Topic: Managing Compliance Buy-In to Systems and Tools

• Managed a team of five employees. I train new staff members, assign projects to the team, hold weekly individual meetings with each team member to discuss their projects, complete mid-year and annual performance.
• Supports the Vice President of State Licensing in providing leadership to the sub-department
• Supports EDMC institutions in their state licensing regulatory processes, helps ensure that institutions are in compliance with applicable statutes and regulations, and serves as an advisor on applicable regulatory.
• Provide overall operational leadership, project management, and coordination of day-to-day state licensing activities for all four EDMC systems, including monitoring workflow to ensure that quality submissions are.
• Preserve relationships with regulatory agencies, working to enhance EDMC’s standing with each.
• Provide consultative guidance on proposed rules and regulations

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for maintaining compliance for each of EDMC's three online schools which covers all state agencies across the country
• Manage and train online sub department staff
• Build online sub department from scratch
• Coordinate each of EDMC's three online schools new program fee budget
• Prepare state applications for new campuses, annual license renewals, change of ownership and new programs
• Provide consultative guidance and feedback on school generated applications

• Responsible for maintaining compliance for each of EDMC's three online schools which covers all state agencies across the country
• Manage and train online sub department staff
• Build online sub department from scratch
• Project manager state licensing efforts to have licensure for our online schools to comply with new DOE regulations
• Prepare state applications for new campuses, annual license renewals, change of ownership and new programs
• Provide consultative guidance and feedback on school generated applications

• Responsible for 30 plus schools covering 10 states on the West Coast
• Conduct regulatory compliance audits of EDMC operating units
• Prepare state applications for new campuses, annual license renewals, change of ownership and new programs
• Provide consultative guidance and feedback on school generated applications
• Represent EDMC at state board meetings
• Advise, assist and recommend due diligence activities

• Manage the development and implementation of administrative and operational policies that are consistent and compliant with regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Conduct regulatory compliance audits of EDMC operating units
• Prepare state applications for new campuses, annual license renewals, change of ownership and new programs
• Provide consultative guidance and feedback on school generated applications
• Represent EDMC at state board meetings
• Create and maintain relationships with state board members

• Taught grades K - 8 in various subjects
• Responsible for class sizes of 20 to 30

• Created survey to measure the public's satisfaction of the various village departments
• Analyzed data and reported findings to Village Clerk

• Coordinated the campaigns downstate strategy to 95 of the state's 102 counties.
• Assisted with the supervision of 15 interns
• Wrote, edit, and published weekly campaign update mailings to each of my counties volunteer field workers
• Found surrogates for political functions in my regions to the place of the candidate when the candidate was unable to attend
• Assisted with the coordination of the Election Day strategies with each of my counties regional party headquarters.

• Prepared files for upcoming cases
• Filed cases reports once verdict was determined
• Accompany attorneys to court to with the pre-court filing I completed

Masters Of Public Administration, Public Administration; Concentration Government Management

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science