Richard Bayer is Assistant Provost of Enrollment Services and has oversight of Undergraduate Admissions, Office of the University Registrar, the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, and the One Stop Student Service Express Center. Mr. Bayer joined UT as Dean of Admissions and Records in 1999 and was named Assistant Provost of Enrollment Services in 2008. While serving as Assistant Provost of Enrollment Services, UT has moved up the rankings in US News and World Report to rank in the nation’s top 50 among all public research universities. Enrollment Services has recently focused its attention on the University’s Top 25 mission of enrolling the best and brightest students and increasing its undergraduate retention and graduation rates. Through Mr. Bayer’s guidance and leadership the University has launched two scholarship programs, The Tennessee Pledge, and the Tennessee Promise for low income and under-represented students. He also chairs the cross-functional undergraduate tactics team that focuses on enrollment and retention issues. More recently Mr. Bayer launched the successful opening of a new One Stop Student Service Express Center designed to help students navigate the enrollment and payment processes at UT.
Garret Moore has worked in campus law enforcement for twenty-six years, both at a large state research institution and at a small private college. Garret has conducted several serious crimes investigations including numerous sexual misconduct investigations. He has also conducted training for other campus law enforcement agencies in the area of sexual harassment. Committed to providing a victim-centered approach to serious crimes on his campus, Garret was instrumental in creating a civil rights model for investigating sexual misconduct and other violations on his campus. He is a trained Title IX investigator and has developed numerous campus advocates to assist in creating a campus environment that supports sexual assault survivors. He is a founding member of the Community Sexual Misconduct Awareness and Response Team (CSMART) and provides annual training to the campus Sexual Harassment and Rape Education group (SHARE) advocates, who are confidential resources trained to provide support and resources to victims of sexual assault on campus. Garret is a member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) and past president of the Ohio Campus Law Enforcement Association (OCLEA).
Billie Handa manages and implements a comprehensive, university-wide annual giving program. In concert with her team of four professional staff, she coordinates a multi channel solicitation strategy that includes direct mail, phone, email, and personal solicitation (leadership annual giving). Billie also implemented Ohio University’s annual giving stewardship program, the Founders Circle. With more than 9 years of nonprofit fundraising experience, Billie has a strong track record of developing relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and utilizing data to reach, ask, and steward donors and prospective donors. Billie is a member of the advisory board and an alumna of Ohio University’s Upward Bound program, an emeriti vice president for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Athens County, and a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Dr. Matthew D. Pistilli works in the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Effectiveness at Purdue University. For over fifteen years, Matt has focused on creating and assessing conditions and environments that positively affect college student success. Over his career, he has worked with learning analytics, the intersection of technology and learning, summer bridge programs, residence life, learning communities, orientation programming, supplemental instruction, and low-income student scholarship and support programming. Currently, Dr. Pistilli is the principal investigator for an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative examines the process for building and scaling capacity for using analytics at eight institutions around the United States in an effort to impact student success. His current research addresses building contextual predictive analytic algorithms and determining the components necessary for campuses to successfully implement learning analytics.
Dale has been the campus planner at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls for twenty-six years. He has managed projects affecting virtually every building and department on campus. Dale provides leadership in space planning and management, capital budget development, and major building project development and management. He leads a team of academic, engineering and facilities management professionals in the design and construction of the Falcon Center for Health, Education and Wellness at UW-River Falls. Dale is a graduate and a faculty member of the Society for College and University Planning’s Planning Institute. He is also a trained facilitator using the Institute of Cultural Affairs’ Technology of Participation facilitation methods.
Jillian Kinzie conducts research and leads project activities on effective use of student engagement data to improve educational quality and serves as senior scholar on the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) project, an initiative to study assessment in higher education and assist institutions and others in adopting promising practices in the assessment of college student learning outcomes. She served on the faculty of Indiana University and coordinated the University’s master’s program in higher education and student affairs, and worked as a researcher and administrator in academic and student affairs at Miami University and Case Western Reserve University. Jillian is co-author of Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter (Jossey-Bass, 2005/2010); and One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice (Routledge, 2008/2014).
Joseph’s career spans nearly two decades in the performing arts followed by over twenty-four years of experience in assessment, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, and planning. In his current role as vice president of accreditation relations and policy, his portfolio of work includes regional and specialized accreditation and policy related to accreditation. Prior to coming to Bridgepoint, Joseph spent many years at North Carolina Community College System, he established a university-wide assessment at NC State University, served as the founding director of the Office of Assessment at Georgia Tech, and established the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at Savannah College of Arts and Design. He provided leadership for the SACS accreditation efforts at Savannah College and most recently has been a guiding force in Ashford University’s accreditation by WASC. Joseph’s published research encompasses engineering program assessment, graduate program assessment, academic program review, building trust in assessment processes, alumni and employer feedback, validating student engagement research, community college transfer, and evaluation of online academic programs. He is co-author with Jill Ferguson and David Chase of the forthcoming volume, Assessment at Creative Institutions: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic, to be published in 2014 by Common Ground.
Barbara is responsible for the Offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, Institutional Analysis, Intercollegiate Athletics, Communications and Marketing, and Government and Community Relations. Previously, Barbara served as Vice President for Enrollment Management at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD where she built an enrollment management program and assisted Goucher through the transition to coeducational. She began her career at Drexel University as Dean of Admissions, managing admission programs for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education. A frequent speaker on enrollment management related issues, Barbara is active in numerous professional and civic organizations.
Sally is the vice president for academic advancement at Western Governors University, an online competency-based education institution. She is working with a dozen colleges across the U.S. assisting them in developing their own CBE programs. Prior to joining WGU, Sally was the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Winona State University. She also spent almost two decades at the executive director of WCET at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). Sally continues to work on issues of higher education policy, quality assurance, competency-based education, and open and distance learning. She serves on the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the editorial boards for Change magazine and the Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning (UK). She has written dozens of articles, books, and reports on issues of integrating information and communication technology into academics.
Randy directs the umbrella unit (CASP) within WMU that includes serving veteran students, students without a declared major, and first-generation students, as well as providing academic services such as service learning, tutoring, and writing assistance. Randy’s career spans more than fifteen years in secondary education and higher education. His time in higher education include roles in residence life, student conduct, and his current role. Randy holds a doctoral degree in educational leadership with an emphasis in higher education administration. His research interests include leadership, how students connect to the university, and how masculinity shapes student success.
