Mark Simpson Email & Phone Number

Woods Cross, UT, US

Gainesville, Florida, US

As the lead consultant for the Streamlining Academic Management (SAM) initiative at the University of Florida, my role has been to unite campus units around a common vision that prioritizes student success and administrative efficiency. The SAM initiative is focused on empowering student success, improving administrative operations, fostering innovation.

Simpson Consulting marks a new chapter in my three-decade tenure in higher education — fueling innovation for both academic institutions and EdTech ventures. I specialize in consulting engagements that guide higher education institutions and EdTech startups toward strategic success, with a focus on enrollment management and student success. Grounded in a.

Ogden, UT, US

In addition to my education administrative leadership roles, I am deeply committed to learning the complexities and challenges facing deans, department chairs, faculty and students. This passion has led me into the role of an educator where I can immerse myself in these issues at the course instruction level. Courses Taught:SOC 1010 - Introduction to.

Ogden, UT, US

• Transformed the culture of the University and Registrar’s Team into a more service-oriented and student user experience model in partnership with a team by directing and mentoring a team of 40 employees comprised of.
• Drove improvements to the overall student experience across the following departments and operations: Academic Records, Class Scheduling, Exit/Discontinuance Counseling, Graduation, Degree Audit, NCAA Eligibility.
• Improved student retention by reducing early exits through the development of intervention strategies.
• Enhanced graduate education program administrative operation in collaboration with the Faculty Senate and Graduate Council.
• Created a new stream of motivated Associates degree students to enroll from technical and liberal arts colleges by designing new contractual degree pathways.
• Streamlined transcript and degree delivery processes to provide 24/7 transcript electronic production service and to mail diplomas two days after final grades.

Austin, TX, US

• Directly responsible for the Office of the Registrar and Texas One Stop (which comprises all student-facing services for Financial Aid, Bursar, and Registrar). Conducted a 360º assessment of the Office of the Registrar.
• Provided strategic oversight for the implementation of the new Texas One Stop.
• Lead the university’s revision of our academic calendar – resulting in federal and state compliance, a new term/sub-term model, a full week of fall break, final exam model switching from 3 to 2-hour exams while also.
• Oversaw the university’s pandemic response to course scheduling, registration, and grading to ensure safety of our faculty and students while maintaining the integrity of our academic programs.
• Focused development of a student-centered inclusive identity solution – including the implementation of self-service chosen name, pronouns, name pronunciation, and diploma names.
• Overhauled a spiraling deficit spending budget to one generating profit while also fixing significant salary inequity amongst staff and established a base salary model that responded to the overwhelming rise in the.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Member of AACRAO’s staff directing the development of the annual Technology and Transfer conference. My purpose is to cultivate the professional development and network of practitioners and scholars in higher education’s enrollment, retention, and technology communities.

Ames, Iowa, US

Directly responsible for registration, academic records, scheduling, commencement, residency for tuition purposes, tuition assessment, graduation, NCAA certification, veteran’s certification, veteran’s center, chief data steward for all student records, and product lead for the university’s student information system. Oversaw enrollment projections.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Elevated the University’s collaboration and success for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs operations ensuring our departments, faculty, staff, students and external partner interests were represented in annual.
• Revamped foundational processes by leading a comprehensive audit of potential inefficiencies to best customize better enrollment processes.
• Ensured enrollment and student affairs efforts were accurately tracked using laser-focused KPIs.
• Mastered the usage of gathering, analyzing and manipulating business intelligence to create better data and predictive models to proactively evaluate and identify key strategic successes and areas of improvement.
• Rallied department leadership teams to align with new standard operating procedures for optimizing recruitment, enrollment, advising, retention and completion processes.Proactively made a strategic position change in.
• Championed over a dozen projects focused on generating a 360 degree view of our students - enabling early intervention, intrusive advising, and laser-focused student engagement, success and completion.

Established reputation as an exceptional linguist, flight commander, quality information specialist, and team leader with direct responsibilities in the translation, analysis, and reporting of communications to national-level consumers.

Provo, UT, US

Product lead for several modules within the university’s development of their a new student information system called AIM. As the project functional lead, we centralized degree audit, advising, academic planning and registration processes through the design and implementation of a new integrated MyMap application that provided students with unprecedented.

Ephraim, UT, US

• Chief enrollment officer who continuously analyzed and improved admissions, scholarship, recruitment and student marketing efforts. Previous role as a Career Services Job Developer from 1994 – 1996. Consistently.
• Expanded recruitment territories to foster increased enrollment and to cultivate enhanced student demographic, socioeconomic, racial, and academic diversity.
• Built a world-class student ambassador program.
• Boosted conversion and yield rates through the implementation of our strategic outreach service and contact response team.

Abd In Sociology Phd

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Education Leadership And Foundations

Bachelor'S Of Science, Social Psychology

Associate Of Science, Social Psychology

Associate Of Applied Science, Communications Applications Technology