Lou Gaglini joined Boston University’s Center for Career Development in 2017 after extensive experience in higher education career services, as well as executive roles in human resources and recruiting in the private sector. At Boston University (BU), Lou is responsible for leading the Center for Career Development and overseeing the mission, vision, and strategies of the office. Prior to BU, he led the Employer Engagement initiatives at Boston College for six years. Lou is a sought-after speaker and presenter on a wide range of topics including trends in career development and innovative approaches to employer relations and engagement. His career began at Northeastern University in its world-leading cooperative education program and has included other leadership roles in organizations such as Deloitte & Touche, Polaroid, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Kronos. Lou has also consulted in the areas of human resources and recruiting with Children’s Hospital of Boston, Nokia, and Keystone Associates. He remains very active in the business community and has served in leadership roles within several professional associations, including: the Association of Employment Professionals where he served as president for two years, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the Northeast Human Resources Association, and the Society for Human Resources […]
Stuart Mease has committed his career to connecting talent and companies. His service in this industry spans the private, governmental and higher education sectors providing a unique lens to the labor market. Currently, Mease serves as the Executive Director of Employer Relations at Wake Forest University. Prior to this role, he worked at the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business overseeing admission and diversity recruiting, mentoring, career services, employer outreach and lifelong career services. He has authored “The Perfect Job Seeker” for Wiley and has developed other content for their Wiley Plus platform. Prior, he worked has a corporate recruiter for Rackspace. Mease’s enjoyment of working in the talent ecosystem stemmed from a stint at the City of Roanoke, Virginia where he created programs and events aimed at attracting and retaining the creative class workforce. Stuart enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two children.
Dan Gould has over a decade of diverse experience in alumni relations, annual giving, nonprofits, and executive management. His professional practice offers clients strategies and insights for both traditional and emerging alumni and development programs. His expertise resides in challenging convention and routine, offering an approach inspired by metrics and data. Dan served as the executive director for alumni relations and annual giving at the University of Colorado Denver, where he helped integrate philanthropy and engagement practices for a network of 92,000 graduates from Colorado’s only public, urban, research university. Before joining the University of Colorado Denver, Dan previously held roles in alumni relations at the University of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. Dan began his higher education career in Chicago, where he was a fourth-generation resident of the city. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado where you can find him exploring the front range and the backcountry (and everything in between) with his family.
In her current role, Danielle (Danny) Robinson is responsible for planning, staffing, and implementing new strategies for recruitment to enroll and retain first-time undergraduate, transfer, and graduate students. Robinson focuses on targeting underrepresented student populations by developing and implementing diversity enrollment strategies according to institutional goals. Along with this role, Robinson serves as the Puerto Rican Student Association’s Co-Advisor and Adjunct Professor for Freshmen Seminar. Robinson serves on various committees in NYSACAC, as well as other admissions counseling affiliates. From the perspective of a Caucasian American female, Danny’s passion lies in equity, inclusion, and access work. Continuing to push the boundaries for her students, the industry and Higher Education as a whole. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French & English and a Master of Science in Career Development from The College of New Rochelle. Prior to her work at SUNY Maritime College, Robinson worked in similar capacity for five years in admissions/enrollment management at The College of New Rochelle.
Louise Coburn, who has served as the social media strategist for the University of New England for over five years, oversees the strategic direction of UNE President James Herbert’s brand across social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Her responsibilities include managing the President’s multiple content channels and ensuring that his messaging supports the University’s strategic direction while continuing to be an authentic representation of the President’s ideas and personality.
Isabelle has served in multiple leadership positions at institutions of higher education. Over the past decade, she built and led several nationally acclaimed innovative academic programs, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, on-the-ground and online, that have transformed students, the institutions, and the community. Under her leadership, graduate enrollment in the School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College has doubled and undergraduate enrollment has increased 20% in the past three years. As Dean, she also started a nationally recognized Early College program, the Merrimack Institute for New Teacher Support that supports new or current teachers in the region with free monthly workshops, the first competency-based M.Ed. program in Massachusetts, fellowship programs for Master’s students, and the first graduate certificates, and CAGS programs at Merrimack College. Prior to moving to the East coast, Isabelle served as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professional Studies, and a professor of psychology at Creighton University in Omaha, NE. She is the founding director of their innovative and nationally ranked Ed.D. and Master’s programs in Interdisciplinary Leadership and undergraduate Honors Program. She also chaired the effort to change the Graduate School by-laws to allow the creation of a department and […]
With over 40 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Hiskes offers extensive expertise in developing and cultivating interdisciplinary programs, interdisciplinary teacher-scholars, and administrative structures to support interdisciplinarity. As Dean of a College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Anne oversaw the creation and development of innovative interdisciplinary majors, minors, and certificate programs as well as programs that integrate community-engaged teaching and learning. She was also responsible for recruiting and developing interdisciplinary faculty. While at the University of Connecticut, Anne served as Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs and Faculty Development in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Director of a new General Education Program. As a Fellow in the American Council on Education’s year-long Fellows Program, she studied best practices in the administration and organization of interdisciplinarity across a wide range of institutions. With a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, physics, and philosophy from Hope College, Anne has enjoyed teaching collaboratively with faculty from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and health professions.
In her current role, Jenna Spinelle is responsible for shaping the institute’s external communication, including website content, social media, multimedia, and media outreach. She holds a B.A. in journalism from Penn State and is an adjunct instructor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. Prior to joining the McCourtney Institute, Spinelle worked in Penn State’s Undergraduate Admissions Office and College of Information Sciences and Technology.
Kathleen King has been a part of honors education for more than 16 years and has served as Honors Director at Hillsborough Community College for 5 years. She has served on the National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors two separate terms, is an NCHC Fellow, and is currently a member of the NCHC Finance Committee, co-chair of the NCHC Advocacy Committee, and an NCHC Program Reviewer. An advocate of NCHC Partners in the Parks, Kathleen has facilitated Director Retreats and student projects in Everglades, Acadia, Rocky Mountains, and Smoky Mountains. She fervently believes in the mission of the community college system and has seen honors serve as a valuable segue to four–year institutions, including ivy league and elite colleges and universities nationwide. Last year, students from the HCC Honors Program were offered more than $700,00 in transfer scholarships, largely due to coursework, community service, and other important honors programming.
John began his career in philanthropy as a student foundation member at Kansas State University, serving within the K-State Proud Student Campaign. This experience jump-started his passion for higher education philanthropy. Following graduation, he began his tenure in KSU Foundation’s Annual Giving department, focused on direct mail, phonathon, student philanthropy, and student life fundraising. In April of 2014, he accepted a role at the Oklahoma State University Foundation focused on next generation philanthropy focused on engaging students, young alumni, and donors in all seasons of life through crowdfunding, days of giving, and peer-to-peer strategies. Currently, John leads the University of Wisconsin-Madison annual giving team.
