Seattle, Washington
October 1-2, 2013
INVITATIONAL SYMPOSIUM:
The Journey to Completion
ACCT acknowledges with appreciation funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, and Lumina Foundation for their support of
this series.
ACCT acknowledges with appreciation Ellucian for underwriting the videotaping
of this Symposium.
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GRAND HYATT SEATTLE
Leonesa Ballroom, Level 1
October 1-2, 2013
AGENDA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2013
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
WELCOME
Jean Torgeson, Chair, ACCT Board of Directors; Trustee, North Iowa
Area Community College
J. Noah Brown, President and CEO, ACCT, DC
GREETINGS ON BEHALF OF THE FOUNDATIONS
William F. L. Moses, Program Director, Education, Kresge Foundation, MI
OVERVIEW AND GUIDANCE
Narcisa Polonio, Ed.D., Executive Vice President for
Education, Research and Board Leadership Services, ACCT, DC
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
BUFFET LUNCH
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
POLICY IMPLICATIONS UPDATE: HOW POLICIES HAVE CHANGED AS A
RESULT OF THE STUDENT SUCCESS MOVEMENT
Thomas Bailey, Ph.D., Director, Community College Research Center, Teachers
College, Columbia University, NY
David Cannon, Vice Chancellor, Finance and Data Management, Ohio
Board of Regents
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Educational Policy
Studies & Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Longanecker, Ed.D., President, Western Interstate Commission
for Higher Education, CO
Representative Larry Seaquist, Chair, House Higher Education
Committee, WA
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
FACILITATED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
BREAK
1
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
STATUS REPORT ON THE VOLUNTARY FRAMEWORK OF ACCOUNTABILITY
AND ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT
Elise Miller, Co-Facilitator, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, WA
Sidney Hacker Co-Facilitator, Senior Policy Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, WA
Richard Durán, Ed.D., President, Oxnard College, CA
Bernadette Ferro, Project Manager, Voluntary Framework for
Accountability, American Association of Community Colleges, DC
Kent Philippe, Associate Vice President, Research & Student Success,
American Association of Community Colleges, DC
Greg Smith, Ph.D., President, Central Community College, NE
3:30 p.m. – 4:55 p.m.
TOWN HALL WITH FOUNDATIONS
This town hall session is an opportunity for presidents and trustees to have an
open discussion about mutual priorities, approaches, concerns, and challenges in
working towards increasing student success and completion.
Suzanne Elise Walsh, Facilitator, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, WA
Daniel Greenstein, Director, Postsecondary Success Strategy, Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, WA
William F. L. Moses, Program Director, Education, Kresge Foundation, MI
Sheri Ranis, Ph.D., Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation
4:55 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
PREPARATION FOR DAY TWO; QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
Narcisa Polonio, Ed.D., Executive Vice President for
Education, Research and Board Leadership Services, ACCT, DC
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
RECEPTION AND NETWORKING, PRINCESSA BALLROOM, LEVEL 1
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
WORKING BREAKFAST—RECAP OF TUESDAY
FACILITATED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
TECHNOLOGY AND MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCs)
Katherine Mangan, Facilitator, National Correspondent, The Chronicle
Of Higher Education
Daphne Koller, Ph.D., Co-CEO, Co-Founder, Coursera, CA (By Videoconference)
Rebecca Petersen, Research Director, edX, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)
Shanna Smith Jaggars, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Community College
Research Center, Columbia University, NY
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
BREAK
2
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
INTERVENTIONS SUBSTANTIATED BY DATA: WHAT WORKS?
Paul Brown, Ed.D., President, Zane State College, OH
Steven L. Johnson, Ph.D., President and CEO, Sinclair Community College, OH
Steven L. VanAusdle, Ph.D., President, Walla Walla Community College, WA
Jill Wakefield, Ed.D., Chancellor, Seattle Community Colleges, WA
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
REFLECTION/SUMMARY/WHAT’S NEXT?
Q & A AND FACILITATED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Elise Miller, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WA
LeRoy Mitchell, Chair-Elect, ACCT Board of Directors, Trustee, Westchester
Community College, NY
William F. L. Moses, Program Director, Education, Kresge Foundation, MI
Sheri Ranis, Ph.D., Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation, IN
Jean Torgeson, Chair, ACCT Board of Directors; Trustee, North Iowa
Area Community College
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
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SPEAKERS
Thomas Bailey
Thomas Bailey is the George and Abby O'Neill Professor of Economics and Education at
Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also Director of the Community College
Research Center (CCRC) and of the National Center for Analysis of Postsecondary
Education and Employment (CAPSEE), established in 2011 and funded by a grant from the
Institute for Education Sciences. With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Dr.
Bailey established the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College in
1996 and since 1992 has been Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy
(IEE) at Teachers College. In June 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
appointed him chair of the Committee on Measures of Student Success, which developed
recommendations for community colleges to comply with completion rate disclosure
requirements under the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Dr. Bailey was inducted as an
AERA Fellow in 2013 and has been a member of the National Academy of Education since
2012.
His papers have appeared in a wide variety of education, policy-oriented and academic journals, and he authored or
co-authored several books on the employment and training of immigrants and the extent and effects of on-the-job
training. Professor Bailey holds a Ph.D. from MIT with specialties in education, labor economics, and econometrics.
J. Noah Brown
An experienced association executive specializing in public policy, legislative advocacy,
and strategic planning, J. Noah Brown is a nationally recognized authority on community
college governance, a contributor to national publications, and a speaker on a broad range
of topics to large audiences. Mr. Brown provides national leadership on behalf of more than
6,000 elected and appointed officials governing 1,200 community colleges throughout the
United States. Much of his work has focused on strengthening the strategic connections
between community college boards and the array of national and state organizations
important to supporting the mission of community colleges.
Mr. Brown has served on a number of boards and committees, among which are the
Washington Higher Education Secretariat and for Education Funding and the U.S. National
Commission for UNESCO, U.S. Department of State. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts
in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a Master of Public Policy
degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an Honorary Associate of Arts from Atlantic Cape
Community College in New Jersey.
Paul Brown
Dr. Paul Brown, has over 30 years’ experience in the administration of higher education
programs. Dr. Brown became Zane State College’s fifth president in January of 2004.
Under his leadership Zane State College has achieved several major milestones and
received numerous recognitions. Among the most notable are:
Zane State College received the prestigious Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student
Success Leadership Award in 2012 from Achieving the Dream. During Dr. Brown’s
tenure, Zane State College has also demonstrated impressive outcomes: Over 70%
growth in student enrollment, 90% of those students who have one full year of academic
credit graduate, job placement rates of 98% overall and 89% in primary area of study for
Zane State College alumni within six months of graduation
Brown received the 2013 College and University Professional Association for Human
Resources (CUPA-HR) inaugural Chief Executive HR Champion Award , he was
recognized as 2012 “Person of the Year” by Daily Jeffersonian for “vision, leadership, and dedication to improving
the lives of people in southeastern Ohio.”
Dr. Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maryland, Master of Arts in Public
Administration from the University of Northern Colorado, a Specialist in Education in Human Development
Counseling from the George Peabody College, and a Doctor of Education in Human Development Counseling from
Vanderbilt University.
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Dr. Brown served our country as a major in the U.S. Air Force. Major Brown was vice president in charge of
Academic Programming, Institutional Research and Accreditation at the Community College of the Air Force, the
largest community college in the world, located in Montgomery, Alabama.
David Cannon
As Vice Chancellor of Finance and Data Management, David oversees all the financial
activities and the collection of data and reporting for the Ohio Board of Regents. Those
financial duties under his control include SSI formula, budgeting, Senate Bill 6 activities
and fee pledges for bond issuances by various colleges and universities. In addition to
these financial duties, David oversees the Data Management section which works with
each college and university to collect data in the HEI system. The Board of Regents uses
that data to prepare reports and analyze data to determine policy objectives. David is also
responsible for the financial aid and audit functions of the Board of Regents.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Ohio State University, and a master’s
degree from Webster University while serving in the United States Air Force, David has
worked as the Finance Director for the City of Powell, CFO for the Auditor of State and
County Administrator for Delaware County. Prior to coming to work for the Ohio Board of Regents, David was the
CFO for Union County, North Carolina.
Richard Durán
Richard Durán, Ed.D, is President of Oxnard College, a Ventura County Community
College District campus in Oxnard, California. Dr. Durán holds an Ed.D. in Educational
Administration from the University of Northern Colorado and a Masters degree in
Education and Bachelors degree in Elementary Education from Adams State University in
Colorado. He is certified as a Community College Chief Administrative Officer,
Supervisor, and Counselor by the State of California. Past positions include Founding
President, President, Vice Chancellor, Vice President, Dean, Director, and Faculty Member.
Dr. Durán is active in numerous professional organizations, including President of the
National Community College Hispanic Council; Board Member of the American
Association of Community Colleges; Community College League of California; Economic
Development Corporation of Oxnard; Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities;
Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce; and the Oxnard Foundation. Past professional activities
include the Postsecondary Education Commission; Higher Learning Commission; American Association of
Community College Workforce Commission; American G.I. Forum, et.al.; Dr. Durán has presented on various
educational topics, including ethnic studies; career and technical education; assessment; accountability; student
success; and leadership. As president of a multicultural, comprehensive institution of higher learning, Dr. Durán has
extensive experience in serving students from diverse backgrounds and works closely with the community to
provide students the opportunity to achieve their educational goals.
Bernadette Ferro
Bernadette Ferro is project manager for the Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA)
at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). From its Washington, D.C.
headquarters, AACC represents more than 1,100 associate degree-granting institutions and
some 12 million students.
Ms. Ferro joined AACC in February 2010 to manage the VFA, which is an initiative to
identify and define the most appropriate measures for community colleges to assess their
effectiveness and performance.
Prior to joining AACC, Ms. Ferro worked in both the non-profit and private sectors as a
business development specialist and project manager for 9 years. Most recently, as a
program manager for a national science organization, Ms. Ferro led grant-funded initiatives
related to professional development and technology for community college professors, the
public understanding of science, National Science Foundation partnerships, and science education via data consortia
and online digital resources.
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Sara Goldrick-Rab
Sara Goldrick-Rab is associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at
UW-Madison. She is also the Senior Scholar at the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement
of Postsecondary Education, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty,
Center for Financial Security, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, and Wisconsin Center
for Educational Research. She is also the Project Director for the What Works
Clearinghouse's expansion into postsecondary education. As a scholar-activist and
sociologist with a deep commitment to bringing research into policy and practice, Dr.
Goldrick-Rab's research explores policies aimed at reducing socioeconomic and racial
inequalities. She was named a 2010 William T. Grant Scholar for her project "Rethinking
College Choice in America." She was also a 2006 National Academy of Education/Spencer
Foundation postdoctoral fellow. She is the co-author of Putting Poor People to Work: How
the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor (Russell Sage, 2006), which was a finalist for the C. Wright
Mills award. Her research has been published in journals such as Sociology of Education and Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis and has been financially supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
Spencer Foundation, American Educational Research Association, William T. Grant Foundation, and many others.
Daniel Greenstein
Dr. Daniel Greenstein serves as Director of Education, Postsecondary Success for the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. Greenstein oversees work to substantially increase the number
of students that acquire a postsecondary degree or certificate.
Before joining the Foundation, Greenstein was Vice Provost for Academic Planning and
Programs at the University of California Office of the President, a role in which he acted as
the director for UC Online Education – a new effort to integrate online education into the
university’s undergraduate curriculum, among other accomplishments.
Greenstein has led, in some cases founded, several internet-based academic information
services in the US (the California Digital Library) and the United Kingdom (the Arts and
Humanities Data Service), and served on boards and acted in strategic consulting roles for
educational, cultural heritage, and information organizations.
He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford (DPhil) and Pennsylvania (MA, BA) and began his professional
life as a senior lecture in Modern History at Glasgow University. Current fascinations include sustaining models for
public higher education, online undergraduate instruction, and models for supporting disruptive innovation in large
well-established organizations.
Sidney Hacker
Sidney is embedded with the Postsecondary Success Strategy as a Senior Policy Officer for
U.S. Program Advocacy. Her main focus is building awareness of the problem and
commitment to the solutions among state policymakers. Sidney graduated from the LBJ
School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and has devoted most of the last twenty
years of her professional life to state government, starting with the Texas Legislature where
she worked for five years for the House Appropriations Chair on Texas' school finance
formula problem. She then ran the Austin office of Texas' Office of State-Federal Relations
for Governor Ann Richards. Sidney then joined the Texas Performance Review, working
to reform the state's criminal justice agency, workforce development system, and utility
regulation agency, while developing ways to enhance Texas' economy. She subsequently
served as policy director for the gubernatorial campaign of Tony Sanchez, and then
managed state and local government relations for Dell Computers. She also served as Deputy Budget Director for
the City of Austin. For the last five years prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Sidney consulted with governor’s
offices and state cabinet secretaries across the country on workforce development and education issues, conducted
statewide operational performance reviews, and developed workforce and budget issues platforms for various
gubernatorial candidates.
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Steven L. Johnson
Dr. Steven Johnson is serving in his 11th year as president of Sinclair College in Dayton,
Ohio. Sinclair is one of the oldest community colleges in the nation and serves nearly
40,000 unduplicated college credit students a year, and has a $140 million annual budget.
During Dr. Johnson’s presidency, Sinclair has experienced continued extraordinary student
enrollment growth, improvement in student success rates, and a remarkable expansion of
service territory to include three learning centers and a new 70 acre campus in Mason,
Ohio. Even with significant state and community financial challenges, Sinclair offers the
lowest tuition in Ohio, has no debt, and has no significant deferred maintenance. With
3,800 employees, Sinclair is among the ten largest employers in the Dayton region and has
twice been voted by its employees as a top place to work in the area.
Dr. Johnson has been named regional leader of the year, and was named by the Dayton
Business Journal as among the top leaders of the decade for the Dayton region, and as one
of the “12 Most Influential People” of 2012. He has also been honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the National
Conference for Community and Justice. President Johnson is the past board chair of the League for Innovation in
the Community College. He is a past co-chair of the annual campaign for the United Way of Greater Dayton, and
serves on a number of local non-profit boards.
Dr. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and public relations from the University of Wisconsin-Superior,
a master’s degree in higher education administration from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in educational
administration from the University of Texas-Austin.
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
University and the co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company
that works with the best universities to connect anyone around the world with the best
education, for free. Coursera is the leading MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
platform, and has partnered with dozens of the world’s top universities to offer hundreds of
courses in a broad range of disciplines to millions of students, spanning every country in the
world. In her research life, she works in the area of machine learning and probabilistic
modeling, with applications to systems biology and personalized medicine. She is the
author of over 200 refereed publications in venues that span a range of disciplines, and has
given over 15 keynote talks at major conferences. She is the recipient of many awards,
which include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship, the ACM/Infosys award, and membership in the US National Academy of Engineering.
She was recently recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People for 2012. She is also an award
winning teacher, who pioneered in her Stanford class many of the ideas that underlie the Coursera user experience.
She received her BSc and MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her PhD from Stanford in 1994.
David A. Longanecker
David A. Longanecker has served as the president of the Western Interstate Commission
for Higher Education in Boulder, CO, since 1999. WICHE is a regional compact between
15 Western states created to assure access and excellence in higher education through
collaboration and resource sharing among the higher education systems of the West.
Previously, Longanecker served for six years as the assistant secretary for postsecondary
education at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to that he was the state higher
education executive officer (SHEEO) in Colorado and Minnesota. He was also the principal
analyst for higher education for the Congressional Budget Office. Longanecker has served
on numerous boards and commissions. He has written extensively on a range of higher
education issues. His primary interests in higher education are: expanding access to
successful completion for students within all sectors of higher education, promoting student
and institutional performance, assuring efficient and effective finance and financial aid
strategies, and fostering effective use of educational technologies, all for the purpose of sustaining the nation’s
strength in the world and increasing quality of life for all Americans, particularly those who have traditionally been
left out in the past. He holds an Ed.D. from Stanford University, an M.A. in student personnel work from George
Washington University, and a B.A. in sociology from Washington State University.
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Katie Mangan
Katie Mangan, a national correspondent based in Austin, Tex., joined The Chronicle in
1986. She covers community colleges, college completion and work-force issues, as well as
professional schools and higher-education news in the Southwest. She worked in
Washington as a Chronicle staff writer covering faculty issues before moving to Austin as a
regional correspondent. She has also written extensively about the state of legal education,
the effect of health reform on medical schools, and ethics in business education. Working in
the Chronicle’s technology section, she has written about the impact of technology on
college curricula and the ways that MOOCs are affecting the delivery of higher education.
Since joining the Students section of The Chronicle, Mangan has focused on students’
preparedness and remediation, dual enrollment, transfer, access, and completion.
Previously she covered courts and crime for The Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel
and was a reporter and world-desk editor for the Associated Press.
A 1981 graduate of Williams College, where she majored in French, Mangan spent her junior year at the Sorbonne.
Elise Miller
Elise Miller joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in May 2012 as Senior Program
Officer for Data, Postsecondary Success. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Elise
served as program director for Postsecondary Institutional Studies at the National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the Institute for Education Sciences within the U.S.
Department of Education. In that role, she oversaw the Integrated Postsecondary Education
Data System (IPEDS), the primary source for data on colleges, universities, and technical
and vocational postsecondary institutions in the United States; provided leadership to the
work of the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, a voluntary committee with
representatives from all sectors of higher education that aimed to improve data quality and
comparability at the national level; and developed and launched College Navigator, the
Department’s consumer-facing website for information about the nation’s colleges. Before
joining NCES, Elise was director of research and policy analysis at the National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities. Miller earned a master’s degree in higher education management at the University of
Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. in political theory from The Catholic University of America.
LeRoy Mitchell
LeRoy W. Mitchell is incoming chair of ACCT’s Board of Directors. He has been a
member of the ACCT Board since 2010 and previously served on a variety of committees
for ACCT. He is a member of Westchester Community College Board of Trustees and the
New York Community College Trustees. Dr. Mitchell has taught for over thirty years from
Kindergarten to Graduate level. Dr. Mitchell is a Certified Public Accountant, and a
Certified Government Financial Manager. He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree
from Iona College, and a doctorate in public administration from Wagner School of Public
Service at NYU.
William F. L. Moses
William F. L. Moses is The Kresge Foundation’s Program Director for Education, which
promotes higher education access and success for low-income, first-generation, and
underrepresented students. Previously, Bill served as executive director of the Thomas J.
Watson Foundation in Providence, Rhode Island, and as a Senior Analyst in the South
Africa division of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, DC. He also
worked as a research officer at TechnoServe in Norwalk, Connecticut, and held various
positions in the federal and Alaska state government. Bill is a graduate of Claremont
McKenna College and Yale University. He was the co-chair of the Partnership for Higher
Education in Africa and serves on the steering committee of the Africa Grantmakers’
Affinity Group.
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Rebecca Petersen
Rebecca Petersen’s work at edX is focused on managing sponsored research and proof-ofconcept projects. Her current work includes managing the pilot of MOOC courses being
adapted for on-campus learning at San Jose State University and Massachusetts Community
Colleges. She also works with the edX team on establishing best practices for course
development, design, and faculty support.
Rebecca has worked in higher education IT and online program development for the past 15
years. While at Lesley University she was the founding Director of Academic Technology.
Later she was appointed as the Director of eLearning Resources and Professional
Development where she expanded faculty development programs to include online
seminars and courses. At Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) she served as their
first Director of Faculty Development. While at WIT she created faculty programs that supported online and blended
learning course development as well facilitating faculty mentoring and communities of practice models.
Kent Phillippe
Kent Phillippe, Associate Vice President, Research and Student Success, has been
responsible for research at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) for
19 years. In his time at the association, he has been instrumental in developing a strong,
reliable research capacity at the association. He has integrated diverse national data sets
including Census, Department of Education, and Association data files to better understand
and describe community colleges, and the communities in which they reside. Kent is also
point on two major data projects for the association, the Voluntary Framework of
Accountability (VFA) and the Achieving the Dream data tools. He serves on a wide variety
of advisory panels for national research projects including the U.S. Department of
Education’s National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Beginning Postsecondary Student
longitudinal Study, and the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, as well as Department
of Labor, Lumina, and FIPSE funded projects. He obtained a B.A. in psychology from Hamline University, in St.
Paul, MN, an M.A. in clinical and counseling psychology from Southern Methodist University, and attended a
Michigan State University doctoral program where he studied Child/Family clinical psychology.
Narcisa A. Polonio
Dr. Narcisa A. Polonio is the Executive Vice President, Education, Research and Board
Leadership Services at the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT). ACCT
has a long and distinguished history of providing outstanding services to boards of trustees.
Dr. Polonio is recognized as one of the leading authorities on community college
governance and presidential leadership. She has facilitated over 300 board retreats and
presidential searches. She provides leadership for the ACCT’s Annual Leadership
Congress, publications, research projects and leadership services including Retreat
Services; Interim President Service; the Governance Leadership Institutes; and the
Governance Institute for Student Success.
Dr. Polonio previously served as the president of Harcum College (PA) and Hudson County
Community College (NJ). Other previous positions include Director of the Office of
Community Colleges, New Jersey Department of Higher Education. Dr. Polonio served for
seven years as a faculty member for the Institute for Educational Management, Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University.
Dr. Polonio served on the Board of Trustees at the College of St. Elizabeth and other advisory boards including, the
HERS national board. She has an extensive list of publications and speaks throughout the country on issues related
to governance, leadership, and diversity. Dr. Polonio attended Foothill Community College, CA, and holds a B.A. in
History from San Jose State University (CA), an M.A. from Stanford University (CA), an Ed.D. from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Sheri H. Ranis
Sheri H. Ranis is a Strategy Director at the Lumina Foundation for Education in
Indianapolis, Indiana. She has served as a Senior Program Officer in the US
Programs/Education Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as a Senior
Fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Sheri has
also worked on college access and success projects based in Washington State as a higher
education policy consultant.
From 2000-2005 Sheri was Program Director for Education at the Social Science Research
Council where she built a series of programs that examined the health of the field of
education research and established programs and a research agenda around under-served
youth and their transition to college.
Sheri grew up in the Washington, DC area and holds degrees from Smith College and
Columbia University, including a PhD in education from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and
Teachers College.
Larry Seaquist
First elected in 2006, Representative Larry Seaquist is Chair of the Higher Education
committee in the Washington State Legislature. He also serves on the House Education and
Appropriations Committees as well as on the Appropriations Sub-committee on Education.
To assure that students, teachers, and community leaders are fully consulted as the
legislature develops education policy and budgets Larry regularly convenes a “24 corners”
group of state-wide stakeholders.
A former US Navy warship captain and Pentagon Strategist, Larry has helped shape budget
and national security strategy. Additionally, working with UNESCO’s Director-General in
Paris and often with heads of state, he invested more than a decade designing and
demonstrating innovative conflict prevention and community development strategies in a
number of at-war and at-risk countries including Jordan, Palestine and Israel in the Middle
East, Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, Sri Lanka in South Asia, and Colombia in Latin America.
Translating those insights to American cities, he later worked with community and university leaders in Seattle/King
County, Washington DC, and Columbus, Ohio to pioneer locally-led community revitalization strategies.
A frequent lecturer and writer, Larry has conducted advanced seminars on innovative community and security
strategy at Harvard, Stanford, George Washington, and American Universities, military colleges, and the Evergreen
State College. He has published numerous opinion pieces in the Christian Science Monitor and other papers.
Greg P. Smith
Since 2008 Greg P. Smith has been president of Central Community College, a large rural
Nebraska public institution with three campuses and three centers serving 25 counties and
over 25,000 students annually. Smith has 25 years of community college executive
experience as executive vice president, Central Community College; dean of academic
services, Central Arizona College; vice president institutional effectiveness, planning, and
technology, Community College of Denver; director of planning and research, Colorado
Community College System. He was also a research scientist, University of Denver.
He is affiliated with the AACC Commission on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity;
Postsecondary International Network President Elect; Community College Futures
Assembly, Chair of CEO Futures Commission; American College and University
Presidents Climate Commitment Executive Committee; Sustainability Education and
Economic Development (SEED) initiative task force; Greater Nebraska Workforce
Investment Board member; Rotary Club member, past president, and Paul Harris Fellow; North Central Association,
Higher Learning Commission accreditation reviewer.
Smith holds a Ph.D., Experimental Social Psychology, University of Denver and is an alum of Dartmouth College
and Western Illinois University.
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Shanna Smith Jaggars
Shanna Smith Jaggars is the Assistant Director of the Community College Research Center
(CCRC), at Teachers College, Columbia University. CCRC strategically assesses the
challenges facing community colleges in order to contribute to the development of practice
and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students.
Currently, Dr. Jaggars' research focuses on developmental education programming and
policy, student advising and tracking systems, online learning, the labor market value of
community college coursework and credentials, and institutional improvement processes. In
particular, her recent research on online learning in the Virginia and Washington State
community college systems examined the structure and design of online instruction and its
impact on persistence and completion. Together with Tom Bailey and Davis Jenkins, she is
writing a book on redesigning open-access colleges for student success, to be published by Harvard University Press
in 2014.
Jean Torgeson
Jean Torgeson is Chair of the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Board
of Directors. Torgeson was elected to the ACCT Board of Directors in 2007. She has served
as the ACCT Central Region State, Province & Territory Coordinators/Central Region
Chair, on the ACCT Public Policy Committee, ACCT Governance and Bylaws Committee,
ACCT Member Communications and Education Committee, and as an ACCT Central
Region Nominating Committee/Member. Torgeson is a member of Iowa Association of
Community College Trustees and a member of North Iowa Area Community College
Governing Board.
Trustee Torgeson received an associate degree in nursing from North Iowa Area
Community College, a registered Nurse First Assistant National Certification from
Hawkeye Community College, and a legal Nurse Consultant National Certification from the
Vicki Milazzo Institute. Torgeson served on the Website Committee for the American Society of Plastic Surgical
Nursing, as a State Coordinator of legislative grassroots efforts for the Association of Perioperative Nursing, and as
a member of the Public Policy committee for the Iowa Nurses Association.
Steven L. VanAusdle
An Eastern Washington native, Steven VanAusdle was named President of Walla Walla
Community College in 1984. His vision has enabled the College to provide innovative
education and training in a wide variety of programs, including the nationally recognized
Center for Enology and Viticulture, which is credited for its role in developing a premium
red wine industry with over 6,000 jobs created and $230 million in earnings. An awardwinning Water and Environmental Center was also created to facilitate innovative and
collaborative solutions in the management of water and restoration of the environment.
Most recently an Energy Systems Program, with a wind energy specialty, has been
implemented and currently enrolls more than 100 students. In 2011, Walla Walla
Community College was named one of the top five community colleges in the nation by the
Aspen Institute for Community College Excellence. This year, WWCC was named cowinner of the Aspen Prize. Dr. VanAusdle currently serves as Vice Chairman of the
Washington State Economic Development Commission, as a member of the National Council on Competitiveness,
the Pacific Power Board, and the Port of Walla Walla Economic Development Committee. He earned B.S. and M.A.
degrees in Agriculture Economics from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in Education from The Ohio State
University.
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Jill Wakefield
Dr. Jill Wakefield is a visionary leader who is recognized for developing strategic
partnerships and innovative solutions and for the depth of her experience in higher
education. She became Chancellor of the Seattle Community Colleges in January 2009
after serving five years as president at South Seattle Community College, where she
directed the development of leading-edge programs and an architecturally vibrant campus.
While she was President, the college was the first in the state to offer an applied bachelor’s
degree (in Hospitality Management), and as Chancellor, she has championed several more.
She led a district-wide initiative promoting green and sustainable curriculum and programs,
and stimulated numerous grants and initiatives supporting student success and retention,
such as The Gates Foundation’s Pathway To Completion and the city’s Pathways to
Careers grants. She also created a new leadership team, hiring new college presidents to
replace interim and retiring presidents at the district’s three colleges. Prior to her service as
a college president, Wakefield held a variety of positions during a 30-year career at South,
gaining extensive knowledge of community college administration, the region, and the state’s higher education
system.
Wakefield is a community college graduate who earned her associate’s degree from Centralia College, bachelor’s
degree in education from Central Washington University, master’s degree in public administration/public policy
from the University of Washington, and doctorate in educational leadership from Seattle University.
Suzanne Walsh
Suzanne Walsh is a Deputy Director on the Postsecondary Success Team at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation where she leads the Foundation’s institutional redesign
strategies. Before joining Gates, Suzanne worked at two other foundations: Lumina
Foundation in Indianapolis where she managed the Making Opportunity Affordable
initiative, which was aimed at increasing college productivity by bringing about
fundamental change in the way higher education does business; and, The Heinz
Endowments in Pittsburgh where her diverse portfolio included community colleges,
universities, workforce development, tech commercialization and transfer, city/county
consolidation, immigration and regional economic development. She got her start in
community college work as the Coordinator of Special Projects at Cuyahoga Community
College. And she began her professional career as an attorney at Oklahoma Indian Legal Services. Suzanne has her
juris doctorate and masters in social work from Case Western Reserve University, a bachelor’s of science from
Cornell University, and an associate’s degree in applied science from Hudson Valley Community College. She is a
member of the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations board and on the advisory boards for Roadtrip Nation, as
well as education start-ups Uncollege and Sokanu. She is also a proud judge for Dance Your PhD.
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PARTICIPANTS
Kate Almanza
National Account Director
Higher Education
USA TODAY
7950 Jones Branch Road
McLean, VA 22102
[email protected]
Dan Altmayer
Trustee
Highline Community College
30941 37th Pl. SW.
Federal Way, WA 98023
[email protected]
Arthur C. Anthonisen
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Orange County Community
College
2804 Route 208, Suite A
Montgomery, NY 12549
[email protected]
James Ayers
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Parkland College
4 Oakview Ct.
Monticello, IL 61856
[email protected]
Mitchell Bailey
Chief of Staff
Sinclair Community College
444 W 3rd St
Dayton, OH 45402
[email protected]
Tom Bailey
Director
Community College Research
Center
Box 174
525 West 120th St.
New York, NY 10027
[email protected]
Thomas Baynum
President
Black Hawk College
6600 34th Ave.
Moline, IL 61265
[email protected]
Dorothy Beck
Trustee
Black Hawk College
6600 34th Ave.
Molina, IL 61265
[email protected]
Thomas Bennett
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Parkland College
2400 W. Bradley Ave.
Champaign, IL 61821
[email protected]
Greg Bever
Trustee
Community Colleges of Spokane
501 N Riverpoint Blvd
Spokane, WA 99217
[email protected]
Diane Bosak
Executive Director
Arizona Community College
Coordinating Council
dbosak@pacommunitycolleges.
org
Paul Brown
President
Zane State College
1555 Newark Rd
Zanesville, OH 43701
[email protected]
Walter G. Bumphus
President and CEO
American Association of
Community Colleges
1 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected]
Doyle Burke
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Maricopa County Community
College District
2411 West 14th St.
Tempe, AZ 85281
[email protected]
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Tom Campbell
Trustee
Green River Community College
3204 Auburn Way North
Auburn, WA 98002
[email protected]
Michael Collins
Associate Vice President
Jobs for the Future
88 Broad St.
Boston, MA 02110
[email protected]
David Cannon
Vice Chancellor, Finance and
Data Management
Ohio Board of Regents
25 S. Front Street
Columbus, OH 43215
[email protected]
Marty Cortez
Trustee
Pima Community College
4905 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85709
[email protected]
John E. Cech
Deputy Commissioner for TwoYear and Community College
Education
Montana University System
PO Box 203201
2500 Broadway
Helena, MT 59620-3201
[email protected]
Arnulfo Cedillo
Trustee
Chabot Las Positas
Community College District
7600 Dublin Blvd. 3rd Floor
Dublin, CA 94568
[email protected]
K. Ross Childs
Trustee
Northwestern Michigan College
1701 East Front Street
Traverse City, MI 49686
[email protected]
Stacey Clawson
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
500 Fifth Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98102
[email protected]
William Coleman
ACCT Board Member
Mercer County Community College
181 Claflin Ave
Ewing, NJ 08638
[email protected]
Linda Cowan
Trustee
Green River Community College
12401 SE 320th Street
Auburn , WA 98092
[email protected]
Colton Crane
ACCT Board Member
Central Wyoming College
850 Main Street
Lander, WY 82520
[email protected]
Richard Cummins
President
Columbia Basin College
2600 North 20th Avenue
Pasco, WA 99301
[email protected]
John Davies
ACCT Committee Member
Northeast Community College
PO Box 314
Pilger, NE 68768
[email protected]
Dorey Diab
President
North Central State College
2441 Kenwood Circle
Mansfield , OH 44906
[email protected]
Kirsten Diederich
ACCT Board Member
North Dakota University System
10th Floor, State Capitol
14
600 East Boulevard AveBismarck, ND 58505
[email protected]
M.J. Dolan
Executive Director
Iowa Association of Community
College Trustees
855 E. Court Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50309
[email protected]
Tim Douglas
Trustee
Whatcom Community College
2114 Williams St.
Bellingham, WA 98225
[email protected]
James Doyle
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Clark State Community College
PO Box 237
Springfield, OH 45501
[email protected]
Marcy Drummond
Lead Senior Program Officer
The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
P.O. Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
[email protected]
John Duffy
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Elgin Community College
1700 Spartan Drive
Elgin, IL 60123
[email protected]
Johanna Duncan-Poitier
Sr. Vice Chancellor, Community
Colleges and the Education
Pipeline
The State University of New York
353 Broadway, SUNY Plaza,
Suite S411A
Albany, NY 12246
[email protected]
Duane Dunn
President
Seward County Community
College/Area Technical School
PO Box 1135; 1801 N. Kansas
Liberal, KS 67905
[email protected]
Richard Duran
President
Oxnard College
4000 S. Rose Ave.
Oxnard, CA 93033
[email protected]
Stanley Edwards
ACCT Board Member
Halifax Community College
908 Country Club Road
Weldon, NC 27890
[email protected]
Eileen Ely
President
Green River Commuity College
12401 SE 320th Street
Auburn, WA 98092
[email protected]
David Emerick
Trustee
Black Hawk College
6600 34th Ave.
Molina, IL 61265
[email protected]
Kenneth Ender
President
Harper College
1200 W. Algonquin Rd.
Palantine, IL 60067
[email protected]
Brenda Even
Trustee
Pima Community College
4905 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85709
[email protected]
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Bob Evins
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Ozarka College
1927 Hwy 62-412
Highland, AR 72542
[email protected]
Nathan (Nate) Falkner
Acting West Coast Regional
Director
Single Stop USA
1825 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10035
[email protected]
Robert (Bob) Feit
ACCT Board Member
Southeast Community College
601 Madison
PO Box 106
Pickrell, NE 68422
[email protected]
Bernadette Ferro
VFA Project Manager
American Association of
Community Colleges
1 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected]
Mary Figueroa
ACCT Board Member
Riverside Community College
District
4800 Magnolia Ave
Riverside, CA 92506
[email protected]
Darcey Fugman-Small
Trustee
Walla Walla Community College
500 Tausick Way
Walla Walla, WA 99362
[email protected]
Rey Garcia
President and CEO
Texas Association of Community
Colleges
1304 San Antonio, Suite 201
Austin, TX 78701
[email protected]
Marie Foster Gnage
President
WVU Parkersburg
300 Campus Drive
Parkersburg, WV 26104
[email protected]
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Associate Professor of
Educational
Policy Studies & Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
500 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
[email protected]
Paul Gomez
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Chaffey Community College
District
8584 Calle Carabe
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
[email protected]
Pamila Fisher
ACCT Consultant
3251 Hillcrest Dr.
Bozeman, MT
59715
[email protected]
Doris Graham
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
St. Louis Community College
300 S Broadway
St Louis, MO
[email protected]
Denise Frisbee
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Portland Community College
PO Box 19000
Portland, OR 97280
[email protected]
Daniel Greenstein
Director of Education,
Postsecondary Success
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
P.O. Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
[email protected]
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Kendall Guthrie
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
500 5th Ave North
Seattle, WA 98109
[email protected]
Sidney Hacker
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
1432 Elliott Ave West
Seattle, WA 98119
Sidney.hacker@gatesfoundation. org
Michael Hansen
President
Michigan Community College
Association
222 North Chestnut
Lansing, MI 48933
[email protected]
Jim Harper
ACCT Pacific Regional Chair
Portland Community College
380 NW Macleay Blvd
Portland, OR 9721
[email protected]
Ratona Harr
National Accounts Director,
Higher Education
USA TODAY
7950 Jones Branch Road
McLean, VA 22102 (VA)
[email protected]
Gwendolyn Harris
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Mercer County Community
College
PO Box B
Trenton, NJ 08690
[email protected]
Judy Hartmann
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
South Puget Sound Community
College
2011 Mottman Road, SW
Olympia, WA 98512 (WA)
[email protected]
Warren Hayman
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
The Community College of
Baltimore County
3603 1/2 Patterson Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21207
[email protected]
Leslie Haynes
Director, Pathways to Careers
Initiative
Seattle Community College
District
1500 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
[email protected]
Carla Hedtke
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Northeast Wisconsin Technical
College
5765 KZ Lane
Oconto Falls, WI 54154
[email protected]
Brenda Hellyer
Chancellor
San Jacinto College District
4624 Fairmont Parkway, Suite 200
Pasadena, TX 77504
[email protected]
Andrea Henderson
Executive Director
Oregon Community College
Association
260 13th St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
[email protected]
Connie Hornbeck
ACCT Board Member
Iowa Western Community College
2736 292nd Lane
Logan, IA 51546
[email protected]
Lonnie L. Howard
President
Clover Park Technical College
7115 87th Ave. Ct. SW
Lakewood, WA 98498
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Don Hudgins
Trustee
Cochise College
4190 Arizona 80
Douglas, AZ 85607
[email protected]
Richard Kahlenberg
Senior Fellow
The Century Foundation
1333 H Street, N.W., 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
[email protected]
Randall “Mack” Jackson
ACCT Southern Regional Chair
Midlands Technical College
39 Paperbark Court
Columbia, SC 29209
[email protected]
Allen Kaplan
Trustee
Austin Community College
5930 Middle Fiskville Rd.
Austin, TX 78752
[email protected]
April Jensen
Special Assistant to the
Chancellor for Student Success
Seattle Community College
District
1500 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
[email protected]
Jane Karas
President
Flathead Valley Community
College
777 Grandview Drive
Kalispell, MT 59901
[email protected]
Steven L. Johnson
President and CEO
Sinclair Community College
444 W 3rd St
Dayton, OH 45402
[email protected]
Ceri Jones
Director, Analyst and Association
Relations
Ellucian
90 South 400 West #500
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
[email protected]
Sally Shaheen Joseph
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Mott Community College
6263 Stonegate Parkway
Flint, MI 48532
[email protected]
Vernon Jung
ACCT Board Member
Moraine Park Technical College
1470 Highland Drive
Kewaskum, WI 53040
[email protected]
William Kelley
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Harper College
1535 W. Schaumuburg Road
Schaumburg, IL 60194
[email protected]
Kris Klaveano
Trustee
Walla Walla Community College
500 Tausick Way
Walla Walla, WA 99362
[email protected]
Robert Knight
President
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
[email protected]
Gregory Knott
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Parkland College
2400 W Bradley Ave
Champaign, IL 61821
[email protected]
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Daphne Koller
Co-CEO, Co-Founder
Coursera
Rm. 142, Gates Building 1A
450 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
[email protected]
Jack Kramer
Senior Vice President, Customer
Perspective
Ellucian
4375 Fair Lakes Ct.
Fairfax, Virginia 22033
[email protected]
Stefanie Krevda
Project Officer and Special
Assistant
Lumina Foundation
PO Box 1806
Indianapolis, IN 46206
[email protected]
Craig Larson
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
St. Louis Community College
300 S Broadway
Saint Louis, MO 63102
[email protected]
Scott Lay
President and CEO
Community College League of
California
2017 O St.
Sacramento, CA
[email protected]
Bakari Lee
ACCT Northeast Regional Chair
Hudson County Community
College
75 Livingston Ave, 2nd Floor
Roseland, NJ 07068
[email protected]
Sylvia Lee
Trustee
Pima County Community College
4905 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85709
[email protected]
David L. Levinson
President of Norwalk Community
College and Vice President of
Connecticut State Colleges
Board of Regents for Higher
Education, Connecticut State College and
Universities
188 Richards Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06854
[email protected]
David Longanecker
Executive Director
Western Interstate Commission
for Higher Education
3035 Center Green Dr.
Boulder, CO 80301
[email protected]
David Longoria
Trustee
Pima Community College
4905 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85709
[email protected]
John Lukas
Trustee
Lakeshore Technical College
1871 Nagle Ave
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 482-3001
[email protected]
Randolph Lumm
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Maricopa County Community
College District
2411 W 14th St
Tempe, AZ 85281
[email protected]
Janice Lund
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Iowa Lakes Community College
19 South 7th Street
Estherville, IA 51334
[email protected]
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Eleanor MacKinney
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Elgin Community College
1700 Spartan Dr
Elgin, IL 60123
[email protected]
Dave Maguire
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Spoon River College
554 West Murray
Macomb, IL 61455
[email protected]
Molly Beth Malcolm
Special Assistant to the President/
CEO
Austin Community College
District
Highland Business Center
5930 Middle Fiskville Road
Austin, TX 78752
[email protected]
Katie Mangan
National Correspondent,
Community Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher
Education
1600 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin, TX 78704
[email protected]
Elisabeth Mason
CEO and Co-Founder
Single Stop USA
1825 Park Ave., Suite 503
New York, NY 10035
(212) 480-2870
[email protected]
David Mathis
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Member
Mohawk Valley Community
College
833 Symonds Place
Utica, NY 13502
[email protected]
Bennie Matthews
Trustee
College of the Mainland
1200 N. Amburn Road
Texas City, TX 77591
[email protected]
Jeffrey A. May
ACCT Central Regional Chair
Joliet Junior College
25545 Northcrest Drive
Minooka, IL 60447
[email protected]
Byron N. McClenney
Director
Student Success Initiatives
Senior Fellow
Community College Leadership
Endowment
The University of Texas at Austin
1912 Speedway, D5600
Austin, TX 78712
[email protected]
Kay McClenney
Director
Center for Community College
Student Engagement (CCCSE)
Sid W. Richardson Endowed
Fellow
Community College Leadership Program
The University of Texas at Austin
1912 Speedway, D5600
Austin, TX 78712
[email protected]
John McCooley
Trustee
Black Hawk College
6600 34th Ave.
Moline, IL 61265
[email protected]
Roney McCrary
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
College of the Mainland
1200 N Amburn Rd
Texas City, TX 77591
[email protected]
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Denise Murphy McGraw
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Schenectady County Community
College
Hill, Gosdeck & McGraw, LLC
99 Washington Avenue, Suite 400
Albany, NY 12210
[email protected]
Mark Mitsui
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Community Colleges, Office of
Vocational and Adult Education,
US Department of Education
Department of Education Building
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202
[email protected]
Dianne McGuire
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
College of DuPage
425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
[email protected]
Michael S. Monaghan
Executive Director
Illinois Community College
Trustees Association
401 E. Capitol Ave., #200
Springfield, IL 62701
[email protected]
Johnette McKown
President
McLennan Community College
1400 College Drive
Waco, TX 76708
[email protected]
Holly E. Morris
Director, Postsecondary Model
Development and Adoption
EDUCAUSE
1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected]
Don McQuary
Trustee
Walla Walla Community College
500 Tausick Way
Walla Walla, WA 99362
[email protected]
Elise Miller
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
1432 Elliot Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
[email protected]
Duke Mitchell
Trustee
Columbia Basin College
2600 North 20th Avenue
Pasco, WA 99301
[email protected]
LeRoy Mitchell
ACCT Chair-elect
Westchester Community College
112 Union Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
[email protected]
William F.L. Moses
Program Director, Education
Kresge Foundation
3215 West Big Beaver Road
Troy, MI 48084
[email protected]
Mary Moss
Trustee
Clover Park Technical College
7115 87th Ave. Ct. SW
Lakewood, WA 98498
[email protected]
William Myers
Trustee
Northwestern Michigan College
1701 East Front Street
Traverse City, MI 49686
[email protected]
Timothy Nelson
President
Northwestern Michigan College
1701 East Front Street
Traverse City, MI 49686
[email protected]
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Jill Nishi
Deputy Director – Strategy,
Planning & Management and
Special Initiatives
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
[email protected]
Bree Obrecht
Associate Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
[email protected]
Barbara Oilschlager
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
College of Lake County
19351 W Washington St
Grayslake, IL 60030
[email protected]
Curtis E. Oldfield
President
Spoon River College
23235 N. County 22
Canton, Illinois 61520
[email protected]
Clare Ollayos
ACCT Board Member
Elgin Community College
1161 Florimond
Elgin, IL 60123
[email protected]
Hector Ortiz
ACCT Committee Member
Harrisburg Area Community
College
526 North Street
Steelton, PA 17113
[email protected]
Sherry Parker
Trustee
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
[email protected]
Jerry Patterson
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Coast Community College District
1370 Adams Ave
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
[email protected]
Debra Pearson
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Maricopa County Community
College District
2411 West 14th Street
Tempe, Arizona 85281
[email protected]
M. Thomas Perkins
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Western Nebraska Community
College
1010 East 35th Street
Scottsbluff, NE 69361
[email protected]
George Pernsteiner
President
State Higher Education Executive
Officers
3035 Center Green Dr. Ste 100
Boulder, CO 80301
[email protected]
James Perry
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Union County College
1033 Springfield Avenue
Cranford, NJ 07016
[email protected]
Rebecca Petersen
Research Director
edX
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
[email protected]
Kent Phillippe
Associate VP Research & Student
Success
American Association of
Community Colleges
1 Dupont Circle, NW., Suite 410
Washington, DC 20036
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[email protected]
Hal Plotkin
Special Assistant, Office of the
Under Secretary
US Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
[email protected]
Lua Pritchard
Trustee
Clover Park Technical College
4500 Steilacoom Blvd., SW
Lakewood, WA 98499
[email protected]
Robert Proctor
ACCT Committee Member
Lansing Community College
P.O. Box 40010
Lansing, MI 48901
[email protected]
Lana Puckorius
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
South Florida State College
600 W College Dr.
Avon Park, FL 33825
[email protected]
Rahim Rajan
Program Officer
BIll & Melinda Gates Foundation
500 5th Ave North
Seattle, WA 98119
[email protected]
Sheri Ranis
Strategy Director
Lumina Foundation
P.O. Box 1806
Indianapolis, IN 46206
[email protected]
Greg Ratliff
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
1432 Elliott Ave West
Seattle, WA 98119
[email protected]
George Regan
ACCT Board Member
Robeson Community College
PO Box 478
St. Pauls, NC 28384
[email protected]
Rod A. Risley
Executive Director
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
1625 Eastover Dr.
Jackson, MS 39211
[email protected]
Bob Roegner
Trustee
Highline Community College
29203 3rd Ave. SW
Federal Way, WA 98023
[email protected]
Helen Rosemond-Saunders
ACCT Committee Member
Tri-County Technical College
P.O. Box 587
Pendleton, SC 29670
[email protected]
Sheila Ruhland
President
Moraine Park Technical College
235 North National Avenue
Fond du Lac, WI 54936
[email protected]
Dave Rule
President
Bellevue College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007
[email protected]
Jada Rupley
Trustee
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
[email protected]
Dana Saar
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Maricopa County Community
College District
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2411 West 14th Street
Tempe, AZ 85281
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jimmy Sandoval
ACCT Committee Member
Mesalands Community College
PO Box 694
Tucumcari, NM 88401
[email protected]
Shana Smith Jaggars
Assistant Director
Community College Research
Center
Columbia University
525 W. 120th St., Box 174
New York, NY 10027
[email protected]
Lydia Santibanez
ACCT Trust Fund Board Member
Temple College
2600 South First St.
Temple, TX 76504
[email protected]
Mary Spilde
President
Lane Community College
4000 E. 30th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97405
[email protected]
Larry Seaquist
Representative
Washington House of
Representatives
132C Legislative Building
PO Box 40600
Olympia, WA 98504
Scott Stewart
Trustee
Pima County Community College
District
4905 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85709
[email protected]
Dorothy (Dottie) Smith
ACCT Board Member
State Center Community College
District
5262 N. El Sol
Fresno, CA 93704
[email protected]
Jane Strain
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Cochise College
4190 W. Highway 80
Douglas, AZ 85607
[email protected]
Greg P. Smith
President
Central Community College
3134 West Highway 34 P.O. Box
4903
Grand Island, NE 68802
[email protected]
Rekah Strong
Trustee
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
[email protected]
Robin Smith
ACCT Secretary Treasurer
Lansing Community College
PO Box 40010
Lansing, MI 48901
[email protected]
Nancy Svoboda
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
College of DuPage
425 Fawell Blvd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
[email protected]
Fran Smith Brangman
ACCT Committee Member
MassBay Community College
19 Flagg Dr.
Framingham, MA 01702
David Talley
ACCT Board Member
Palm Beach State College
854 Fathom Road West
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
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[email protected]
Kim Tanaka
TACTC Administrator and SBCTC
Legislative Liaison
Washington Trustees Association
of Community and Technical
Colleges
1300 Quince St. SE
Olympia, WA 98504
[email protected]
Jimmy Thompson
Trustee
Edison Community College
P.O. Box 474
106 West State St.
Botkins, OH 45306
[email protected]
Jean Torgeson
ACCT Chair
North Iowa Area Community
College
1562 340th Street
Manly, IA 50456
[email protected]
Dennis Troy
ACCT Committee Member
Bladen Community College
3488 Owen Hill Road
Elizabethtown, NC 28337
William Trueheart
President & CEO
Achieving the Dream, Inc.
8403 Colesville Rd. Suite 450
Silver Spring, MD 20910
[email protected]
Rafael Turner
ACCT Board Member
Mott Community College
1401 E Court St
Flint, MI 48503
[email protected]
Roberto Uranga
ACCT Immediate Past Chair
Long Beach City College
4901 E. Carson St
Long Beach, CA 90808
[email protected]
Steven VanAusdle
President
Walla Walla Community College
500 Tausick Way
Walla Walla, WA 99362
[email protected]
Vic Villarreal
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Austin Community College
District
5930 Middle Fiskville Rd
Austin, TX 78752
[email protected]
Jill Wakefield
President
Seattle Community Colleges
1500 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Jill.Wakefield@seattlecolleges.
edu
Suzanne Walsh
Deputy Director
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
1432 Elliott Ave. West
Seattle, WA 98119
[email protected]
Anne Williams
ACCT Associate Committee
Member
Washtenaw Community College
13354 Oak Ridge Lane
Chelsea, MI 48118
anne.williams.2011.gmail.com
Ann Wilson
ACCT Committee Member
Milwaukee Area Technical College
700 W. State Street
Milwaukee, WI 53205
[email protected]
Cid D. Wilson
ACCT Board Member
Bergen Community College
400 Paramus Rd
Paramus, NJ 07652
[email protected]
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Susan Wolff
CEO/Dean
Great Falls College Montana
State University
2100 16th Avenue South
Great Falls, MT 59405
[email protected]
Emily Yim
ACCT Board Member
Edmonds Community College
20000 68th Ave W
Lynnwood, WA 98036
[email protected]
Roberto Zarate
ACCT Western Regional Chair
Alamo Community Colleges
4103 Buffalo Bayou Bldg. B
San Antonio, TX 78251
[email protected]
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ACCT Staff
J. Noah Brown
Caitlin O’Grady, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Research and Curriculum Specialist
Colleen Allen
Narcisa Polonio, Ed.D.
Board Program Specialist
Executive Vice President for Education,
Research and Board Leadership Services
Elizabeth Alvarado
Tanya Rose, Ph.D.
Program Specialist
Research and Curriculum Specialist
Anne Campbell
Polly Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Board Services Associate
Coordinator, Online Board Education Services
Morgan Chandler
Indya Rogers
Board Services Associate
Board and Publications Assistant
David Conner
Christina Sage Simons
Communications and Publications Manager
Education Events Specialist
Yobel Gaski
Laurie Savona, Ed.D.
Board Services Associate
Operations Officer for Board Services
Julie Golder Alion, J.D.
Kaitlin Seeberger
Search Services Coordinator
Membership Services Associate
Tonya Harley
Miya T. Simpson, Ph.D.
Operations Management Officer
Project Coordinator, Governance Institute
for Student Success
Enrique Huaiquil
Shamika Smith
Program Associate for Audio Visuals
Administrative Assistant
Jee Hang Lee
John Steinecke
Vice President for Public Policy and
External Relations
Search Services Specialist
Jeremy Lightener
Jennifer Stiddard
Recruiter and Project Associate
Senior Public Policy Associate
Karen Lomax
Executive Assistant to the President
and CEO
ACCT Consultants
Pat Ma
Lila Farmer
Program Specialist, Governance Institute
for Student Success
Consultant, Membership & Meeting Logistics
Bryce McKibben
Ira Shepard
Policy Analyst
General Counsel
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