Mr. Wilson is responsible for overseeing day-to-day details of the entire development process for collegiate housing facilities, including projects for clients and EdR’s own portfolio. He is the primary point of contact between the client and all other development team members. Mr. Wilson is directly responsible for evaluating market demand, working with operations to prepare operating pro formas and working with the architect and contractor in concert with the university to design the project to meet the needs of the students and the school officials. Mr. Wilson also works with the appointed investment bankers or financier to provide needed input to arrange project financing. Upon the bond and/or financing closing, Mr. Wilson helps oversee the construction process, coordinating with Wally Wilcox, senior vice president of construction, to ensure a smooth transition of the completed property to EdR’s operations department.
Ms. Newell is responsible for coordinating legal matters, responding to federal and state audits and investigations, and developing and implementing post-issuance tax compliance policies and procedures including arbitrage, rebate, record keeping, and private business use issues. Prior to joining the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority in 2005, she was engaged in the private practice of law primarily as bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel on numerous issues for governmental entities for a broad range of financing structures. As an appointee of the U.S. Treasury Department, Ms. Newell is currently serving a three-year term on the IRS’s Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Governmental Entities and was elected vice-chair of the Advisory Committee in March 2013. She is a member of the debt committee of the Government Finance Officers Association, and as a GFOA member, she participated with the National Association of Bond Lawyers in the development of the NABL/GFOA Post Issuance Compliance Checklist. She recently completed a three-year term as chair of the Educational Facilities Panel for the annual Bond Attorneys’ Workshop, sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
For nearly two decades, Neil Calfee has demonstrated his expertise and experience in the cultivation and management of complex development projects, involving partnerships between government entities and the private sector. Whether located downtown or the heart of campus, these projects have dramatically changed their environments and served as catalysts for new growth and revitalization within the community. Neil is currently the principal of the Calfee Group, a company specializing in the creation and negotiation of public/private partnerships, serving both of these sectors. He previously served as the director of real estate development for Arizona State University, and prior to that as the redevelopment and revitalization manager for the city of Tempe in Arizona.
Kitty McNeill is the Associate Dean and College Librarian at Oxford College of Emory University. She served as co-director of the Oxford College Strategic Planning Committee that resulted in a comprehensive ten-year plan for the College, a key component of an overall University strategic plan. Oxford College completed construction of a new Library and Academic Commons in May 2013. The project was a complete renovation and expansion of the existing library structure. Kitty led the planning for the transformative project. As a part of her PhD program she completed an ethnographic study of a proof-of-concept library space that informed the design of the new library facility. McNeill received her Master of Librarianship degree from Emory University. She is in the dissertation phase of her PhD work at Simmons College in Managerial Leadership in the Information Profession. Kitty completed the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute in August 2000. She is a 2006 Peabody College Library Leadership Fellow and a 2007 Frye Institute Fellow.
An expert on faculty development and online teaching, Dr. Susan Ko has been supporting faculty in their transition to online and blended teaching since 1997. She co-authored a leading book on the subject of online teaching, widely adopted over the past decade by faculty development programs nationwide, entitled Teaching Online: A Practical Guide, now in its third edition and is also the editor of Routledge’s Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning book series. Before heading up the Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology at City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies, she served as Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at University of Maryland University College and held a variety of positions related to faculty training and online course design in the non-profit and for-profit education sectors. Underpinning her work in faculty development, she has many years of experience teaching in both on-campus and online classrooms.
Nancy Allen received her MLS from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and is currently the Dean and Director of University Libraries at the University of Denver. Prior to joining the DU community in 1992, she held administrative positions at Colorado State University, Wayne State University, and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Nancy was principal investigator for several major IMLS and LSTA grants for the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) and served for many years as the chair of the CDP Board. She has authored, co-authored, or edited 4 monographs, and 19 articles and chapters. Nancy has written on a range of library topics from library instruction to research resources for the study of cinema and television, and on library-museum collaboration for digitization of primary resource material held by cultural heritage organizations. She has served as a member of a number of organizational boards, including the Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors, Center for Research Libraries, and the Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) as well as the American Library Association’s governing Council.
Edmond Hurst has extensive experience structuring and funding higher education transactions for both public universities and private colleges, including assisting in evaluating economic considerations of P3 financing alternatives. Edmond develops and implements securities transactions throughout the country to provide funding for a variety of project types and sizes. He has served Crews clients for more than 20 years. Edmond’s primary focus is public finance where he provides municipal bond underwriting and lease financing services to state and local municipalities and non-profit corporations.
Toni Loiacano has more than 10 years of design experience in architecture and engineering., specializing in programming and planning science teaching and research laboratories. Prior to joining EYP, her projects included the College of Medicine at Central Michigan University, the Biomedical Technology Center and Schoolcraft College, and National Superconducting Laboratory at Michigan State University. A published author and sought-after lecturer, Toni shares her expertise through presentations at conferences hosted by Project Kaleidoscope, No Name, Labs 21, Tradeline, and Association of American Colleges and Universities
Darby began her current position after being promoted from associate director, assistant director, assessment coordinator, and graduate assistant in the same department. Before joining student life studies, she worked as an area coordinator in the Texas A&M Department of Residence Life and as a hall director at the University of Tennessee. Darby is well known for her extensive professional involvement in NASPA’s Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Knowledge Community, serving as assessment column editor for NASPA’s NetResults, and co-editing Learning is Not a Sprint, a NASPA book published in June 2012. Darby frequently presents at national conferences.
Yves is an experienced assessment specialist, and program evaluator. As the chair of the Portland State Institutional Assessment Council, he led a campus wide initiative to develop campus learning outcomes and to bolster campus-wide assessment. As part of its general education program, Portland State now offers and assesses hundreds of capstone projects, all with a civic engagement component. A social psychologist by training, Yves is an associate professor. Yves was awarded a grant to lead a campus wide initiative on Making Learning Visible: an ePortfolio Initiative to Transform Learning and Assessment at Portland State University through The Provost’s Challenge—reTHINK PSU.
