Education Leader And Career Services Professional

• Promoted high levels of academic quality, student engagement, and student success in the Allied Health and Trades programs.
• Recommended, developed, and implemented strategies, policies, and procedures that met the needs of a diverse community and student body of more than 500.
• Drove campus operational success and provided leadership to promote high levels of student and employee engagement, increasing employee satisfaction by 17% in six months.
• Evaluated and resolved student and employee issues, decreasing student attrition to less than 5%.
• Developed and executed robust community outreach program that built and maintained effective partnerships with community, business, industry, and other educational organizations.
• Oversaw $7.5 million campus budget in 30,000-sq.-ft. facility. Created, managed, and maintained forecasting to ensure effective staffing, operations facility usage, and equipment.
• Created executive strategy meetings for campus with 70-plus faculty and staff to implement strategies, initiatives, and best practices.

• Oversaw startup of branch campus, including facility needs, hiring personnel, developing partners, and regulatory requirements, to deliver quality educational services.
• Delivered adult learner-focused bachelor’s and master’s degrees in hybrid class model to promote career advancement.
• Ensured fiscal stability through financial management of all budgetary items, including corporate accounting allocation and authorization of purchases and expense tracking.
• Communicated, disseminated, and enforced compliance with all university policies, state and federal regulations, and SACSCOC and programmatic accreditation standards.
• Developed campus reports and business metrics for CEO, including Institutional Effectiveness reports and annual report on financial performance and academic quality of campus.

• Cultivated and developed relationships with district, school, and community leaders across 52 counties in North Carolina and South Carolina to secure, expand, and retain school / community partnerships portfolio.
• Developed lead generation strategies and executions throughout sales cycle, including negotiating and closing contracts with new school and community partners.
• Partnered with districts, school, and community leaders to establish shared annual goals around implementation of Junior Achievement curriculum and programs.
• Monitored student enrollment metrics for diverse portfolio of partners and schools that aligned with Junior Achievement’s strategic goals.
• Assisted in building brand awareness for Junior Achievement regionally by developing relationships with key influencers and representing Junior Achievement at conferences and events.

• Supervised 100 faculty and staff and 430 students across 22 programs in Culinary Arts, Design, Fashion, and Media to deliver seven certificate, eight associate degree, and seven bachelor degree programs.
• Coordinated Finance, Accounting, and Academic departments to implement process improvements reducing student bad debt from 26% to 14%.
• Conducted quarterly town hall meetings with campus leaders to develop major community events / projects improving graduate career readiness and helping bring 8% increase in annual student retention rate to reach 88%.
• Instituted facility and technical improvements to affect campus life and college experience, resulting in reaching rate of 5.22 out of 6.0 points in student satisfaction composite within 12 months.

• Oversaw 19 campuses, faculty, and staff providing degree and certificate programs in Culinary, Media, Fashion, and Design, accredited by SASCOC (Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools), HLC (Higher Learning Commission), and WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges).
• Led $120 million teach-out project, collaborating closely with accreditors, state licensing, and legal teams.
• Devised articulation agreements with other nearby colleges / universities to maximize transferability of credit.
• Partnered with 30 remaining Ai campuses in hosting “Transfer Days on teach-out campuses,” with local colleges presenting to Ai students for transfer possibilities, resulting in campus completion dates 12 months sooner than projections.