Eileen Strempel
Higher Ed Consultant, Former Inaugural Dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Eileen Strempel is a higher education public policy expert focused on student access and success and was honored as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts by President Reagan at the White House. With co-author Stephen J. Handel, her latest book is Beyond Free College: Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students. Previously, Strempel served as the inaugural dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music and was a Professor at UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. Before that, she served as the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, served in a variety of roles at Syracuse University, where she was awarded a Kauffman Foundation eProfessorship and an ACE Fellowship, which she served at Colgate University.