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Victor Boschini, president of Texas Christian University, served as the 2008 Chair of the NAICU Board of Directors. Prior to becoming president of TCU in 2003, he served as president of Illinois State University, where he also was an associate professor and taught a class each semester throughout his presidency. Also while at Illinois State, Boschini was a member of the board of directors of the Illinois Campus Compact. Still earlier, he was associate provost at Butler University in Indiana before joining Illinois State as vice president for student affairs in 1997. Boschini received his bachelor's degree from Mount Union College. He also holds a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University, and earned his doctorate at Indiana University.
Kent Chabotar became president of Guilford College in 2002. Previously, he was vice president for finance and administration and treasurer at Bowdoin College. Chabotar has spoken widely on the effects of the economic crisis on higher education. He has spent most of his career as a faculty member specializing in finance and budgeting. His many publications include Strategic Finance: Planning and Budgeting for Boards, Chief Executives, and Finance Officers (2006), and articles on financial distress and retrenchment in Trusteeship (2007) and strategic planning in CASE Currents (2007). Chabotar holds a B.A. degree from Saint Francis University (Pa.), and M.P.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Dante Chinni is a political columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and project director for the Monitor's Patchwork Nation project. Chinni has been covering politics and the media for more than 10 years. Previously, he worked as a reporter-researcher at Newsweek and a senior associate at the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He has written for publications including The Economist, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Washington Post Magazine. Chinni is a graduate of Michigan State University.
Raymond D. Cotton is Vice President for Higher Education at ML Strategies, LLC. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a partner in the Mintz Levin Mintz Levin law firm’s Washington, DC office. He specializes in representing colleges, universities and related nonprofit organizations on employment contract and executive compensation matters. He is also a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education. His legal work and compensation analyses have gotten him recognition in many national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
John Dean is an attorney and served as special counsel to the Consumer Bankers Association since 1985. He is also a principal at Washington Partners, a Washington, DC public affairs firm specializing in federal education programs. Previously, he served as associate counsel to the House Committee on Education and Labor, providing staff support on various legislation and budget issues, including the Higher Education Act. Dean currently serves on the board of the National College Access Network, and is a director of Knowledge Works Foundation in Ohio. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center.
George Dehne, president of GDA Integrated Services, has worked with more than 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States. GDA Integrated Services is a market research, consulting, and services firm specializing in customized, integrated marketing solutions that help independent colleges and universities compete successfully for students, funds, and visibility. As special assistant to the president in the late 1970s, he developed and directed the landmark marketing program for Carleton College. He earlier served as director of public relations for Wittenberg University, and as an account executive for Gehrung Associates University Relations Counselors. He also is principal author of Marketing Higher Education: A Handbook for Administrators.
Richard Ekman became president of the Council of Independent Colleges in 2000, having previously served as vice president for programs with the Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company. From 1991 to 1999 he was secretary of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where, in addition to his overall administrative responsibilities, he focused on issues in higher education, technology, libraries, area studies, and faculty development. Ekman earlier served as director of the divisions of education programs and research programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. His campus experience includes service as vice president and dean of Hiram College, and assistant to the provost of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Dan Forbush has had a long-standing interest in online communities beginning in 1992 with his launch of ProfNet, a resource to connect reporters with expert sources via a network of public information officers. Joining Skidmore in 2007 as executive director of strategic communications, he has continued to experiment widely with the new "social tools" of the Internet. Prior to launching ProfNet, Forbush directed public relations at Syracuse University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he created ProfNet. He sold the enterprise to PR Newswire in 1996, continuing to manage ProfNet for the next 11 years. Acknowledging the importance of this advance in on-line communication, PR Week in 1999 included Forbush on its list of the "100 Most Influential PR Practitioners of the 20th Century."
Richard Kneedler is president emeritus of Franklin & Marshall College, a higher education management consultant on executive compensation for Yaffe and Company, and with new presidents for the Presidential Practice. Most recently, he writes and consults on more effective means of examining the financial health of colleges. He retired as president of F&M in 2002, and from 2006-2008, served as interim president of Rockford College in Illinois. Before being named F&M president in 1988, Kneedler was vice president for development and, earlier, vice president for administration and in other administrative positions after joining the college as a faculty member in 1970. He received his bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dan Madzelan is the Director of the Forecasting and Policy Analysis Staff in the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE), having worked at the Department since 1978. His responsibilities encompass a variety of higher education program and policy issues, including development of the department’s annual budget request for student financial aid. Madzelan is responsible for long-tem and short-term studies that help guide federal policy in this area. He also serves as the liaison between OPE and non-governmental constituencies, and has served as the federal negotiator in five rounds of negotiated rule-making for student financial aid programs.
Joseph J. McGowan, president of Bellarmine University, will serve as the 2009 Chair of the NAICU Board of Directors. He came to the Bellarmine presidency in 1990 after having served for 22 years at Fordham University as a vice president and dean. Prior to that he was an admissions and financial aid officer at the University of Notre Dame. His tenure at Bellarmine has seen the creation of 20 new academic programs; founding of schools of education and continuing and professional studies; and establishment of centers for interdisciplinary technology and entrepreneurship, and ethics and social justice. McGowan received his doctorate from Columbia University and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He also is a graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management.
Diana Oblinger, president and CEO of EDUCAUSE, formerly served as vice president responsible for the association’s teaching and learning activities and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. She also is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University. Previously, she was on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State University, and an associate dean at the University of Missouri. Oblinger is co-author of the award-winning book What Business Wants from Higher Education. She also is co-editor of The Learning Revolution, Educating the Net Generation, and Learning Spaces, among other books, and is the author or co-author of dozens of monographs and articles on higher education and technology. Oblinger holds three degrees from Iowa State University.
Matthew Reed is a policy analyst for the Institute for College Access & Success. His background is in education, public policy, and information technology. He spent six years as a high school math teacher and technology coordinator in the Chicago Public Schools. During this time, he helped develop school and district policies on technology staffing and procurement and multimedia curricular materials on computer maintenance and human relations. His policy analysis experience includes projects in urban planning, education reform, housing, labor policy, and higher education affordability. He holds an M.P.P. from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California-Berkeley, an M.S.Ed. from Northern Illinois University, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Eugene Robinson is a Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator. In a 25-year career at the Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s Style section. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has received numerous journalism awards. His second book, Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution, an examination of contemporary Cuba through its vibrant music scene, was published in 2004.
Elizabeth Scarborough, CEO and partner, SimpsonScarborough, is a nationally-recognized expert in the use of research to drive marketing, branding, recruitment, retention, development and alumni relations efforts. With 17 years experience conducting market research and providing strategic counsel to colleges and universities, she is a well-known and innovative leader in developing marketing intelligence. Her groundbreaking approaches to marketing and research have become industry standards that are the hallmark of SimpsonScarborough. Scarborough holds a B.S. from James Madison University and an MBA from Fordham University (NY).
Bob Schieffer, considered by many to be broadcast journalism’s most experienced Washington reporter, serves as anchor and moderator of “Face The Nation,” CBS News’ Sunday public affairs broadcast. Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for more than 30 years, and is one of the few broadcast or print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation's capital – the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, Schieffer is a member of the Broadcasting/Cable Hall of Fame. He is the author of Face The Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-winning News Broadcast, as well as the 2003 New York Times bestseller, This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You On TV.
Gerald Seib is assistant managing editor and executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, and a regular commentator for Fox Business News and other television and radio outlets. In his current role, he writes the paper’s weekly “Capital Journal” column, helps oversee the Journal’s political content online, and oversees a team of investigative reporters. Previously, he has served as the Journal’s Washington bureau chief and deputy bureau chief, political editor, White House reporter, and diplomatic correspondent. He also served in the Middle East for the Journal, based in Cairo. With John Harwood of CNBC, he has written Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power, to be published by Random House this spring.
Jeffrey Selingo was named editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2007. In his 10 years at the Chronicle, his work has been honored with a National Award for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and finalist status for a Livingston Award in national reporting. Prior to working for the Chronicle, he was the environmental reporter for the Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News. He was a member of the staff that won a North Carolina Press Association Award for its coverage of two major hurricanes in 1996, and was the recipient of the state's top Associated Press writing award. He also worked for the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal, and as a recipient of the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship he covered business technology for the Arizona Republic.
Robert Sevier is senior vice president at Stamats Communications, Inc. With over 25 years of experience in higher education recruiting, marketing, and public relations, his research has been excerpted in such publications as CASE Currents, Journal of College Admissions, Admission Strategist, and College & University Journal.. He has authored seven books on integrated marketing, brand marketing, innovation, and strategic planning. After teaching and working as an administrator at The Ohio State University, Denison University, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, and Oregon Health Sciences University, Robert joined Stamats in 1988. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Oregon, and earned a doctorate from Ohio State University.
Larry Shinn, has been president of Berea College since 1994. Prior to his appointment, he served as vice president for academic affairs and professor at Bucknell University, and began his career in higher education at Oberlin College where he taught for 14 years. One of Shinn’s priorities has been Berea’s sustainability initiative, encompassing the Sustainability and Environmental Studies program, ecological renovations to several campus buildings, and the establishment of a residential Ecovillage for student families. An ordained minister of the United Methodist Church, Shinn has conducted research in India and in Jordan, and is the author of Two Sacred Worlds: Experience and Structure in the World's Religions, and The Dark Lord: Cult Images and the Hare Krishnas in America. He received his bachelor's degree from Baldwin Wallace College, his bachelor of divinity degree from Drew Theological School, and his doctorate from Princeton University.
Robert Shireman is the president of The Institute for College Access and Success, a non-profit policy research organization best known for the Project on Student Debt and the Economic Diversity of Colleges database. One of the nation's leading experts on college access and financial aid, Shireman served as an education policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council, in the U.S. Senate, and at foundations and think tanks. Shireman also serves as a congressional appointee to the Federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. He holds a B.A. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, and masters degrees from Harvard and the University of San Francisco.
Christopher Small, executive vice president at GDA Integrated Services, has worked in higher education admissions and administration for more than 30 years. Prior to joining GDAIS, he was vice president for enrollment management at Trinity College (Conn.). where he was responsible for admissions and financial aid. Earlier, Small was vice president for administration at the University of Tulsa, overseeing admissions, financial aid, student services, athletics, and development. Prior to that, he headed admissions and financial aid at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Ripon College. Small earned his bachelor's degree from Ripon College, and his master's degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
The Honorable David Walker, president and CEO of Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and formerly served as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office. Although he no longer is the U.S. government's chief auditor, Walker continues to serve as a global accountability expert as chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Partnership for Public Service. Walker has authored two books, and is the subject of the critically-acclaimed documentary “I.O.U.S.A.” He is a graduate of Jacksonville University, and holds a Senior Management in Government certificate in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
David L. Warren became president of NAICU in 1993 after nearly a decade as president of Ohio Wesleyan University. Earlier, he held administrative and faculty positions at Yale University and at Antioch University, and from 1982 to 1984 served as chief administrative officer of the City of New Haven, Conn. At NAICU, Warren has led cooperative efforts with other national higher education associations, such as the National Campus Voter Registration Project which, again in the 2008 presidential election was instrumental in engaging the nation's campuses in the political and electoral process. He also has been the driving force behind the University & College Accountability Network (U-CAN), an effort by private colleges and universities to provide greater transparency and more accessible consumer information. He earlier spearheaded the Student Aid Alliance to increase student aid.
Keith Wilson currently serves as the director of the Education Service for the Department of Veterans Affairs(VA). In his role as director, Wilson oversees educational programs for veterans, service members, and their dependents. These programs provide education opportunities for nearly 500,000 participants pursuing higher education each year. Previously he worked in regional V.A. offices and, most recently, as director of the Appeals Management Center in Washington, D.C. Wilson, who spent eight years serving in the Navy, used his own V.A. education benefits to earn a bachelor’s degree from University of Nebraska.
James Wright, has served as president of Dartmouth College since 1998, and will retire next June. He conceived and helped raise funds for an American Council on Education program to provide college counseling to veterans in military hospitals, and also was instrumental in working with Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia and other members of Congress in the passage of new GI Bill this past year. As president, his priorities have included advancing the academic strength of Dartmouth and undertaking an ambitious facilities agenda. Wright has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1969, teaching American political history and the history of the American West. He is the author or editor of five books, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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