Nathan has over 10 years of experience in Research Development and pre-award Sponsored Research Administration. As Director of UNC’s Office of Research Development, he constantly looks for new ways to support the research mission of the university. Prior to joining UNC in 2016, Nathan led a large and complex proposal support effort at New York University (NYU) within the Office of Sponsored Research. Over the years, Nathan has supported dozens of successful large scale proposal efforts, across a number of federal, state, and private grant-making agencies. He holds an MBA in Finance, Marketing, and Strategy from NYU, and a BA in Chemical Biology and Philosophy from Boston University.
Angela has been passionately committed to higher education in the liberal arts tradition throughout her career. She began as a faculty member, educating and mentoring students for over 13 years at several institutions including San Diego State University (CA) and the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University (MN). Her passion for the liberal arts, coupled with her strong commitment to student success and serving as an agent for change in higher education, led her to pursue a second advanced degree in administration, with the long-term goal of transitioning into full-time administrative leadership. After years in the classroom and in hybrid faculty/administrative roles, she was presented with the opportunity to serve her alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College, in the Office of Admission. During her time in enrollment management, she explored more deeply the highly competitive nature of student recruitment and fortified collaborative efforts between faculty and admission personnel. Armed with a newfound appreciation for the challenges inherent in supporting the mission-central work of the institution, she transitioned to the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement where she currently serves as director. Angela’s mosaic of experience in higher education inspires her work daily as she critically assesses the status quo, employs data-driven […]
Jessica previously served as the Title IX Coordinator at DePaul University, responsible for providing oversight for all student, staff and faculty sexual misconduct/gender-discrimination complaints while supervising a full-time Title IX Investigator. She oversaw the campus-wide annual training related to Title IX. In her previous role as Assistant Dean of Students and Title IX Deputy Coordinator at Loyola University Chicago, Jessica was responsible for ensuring the timely, impartial, and effective resolution of all complaints of gender-based (Title IX) and bias-motivated discrimination and misconduct involving students. Prior to this Jessica was a Title IX Investigator and Title IX Hearing Board Chair. Jessica holds a BA from John Carroll University and a MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati where her research focused on sexual assault in higher education. Jessica has developed expertise in gender-based misconduct prevention and response, Title IX, Clery/VAWA, policy writing, student conduct, and alternative dispute resolution including restorative justice. Jessica served as the Chair of the Conflict Resolution Committee (2015) for the Association of Student Conduct Administrators (ASCA) and on the advisory board for the Chicagoland Title IX Consortium.
As UNG’s first chief research officer, Dr. Novobilski is responsible for the support and growth of scholarly activities at UNG that enable faculty, students, and staff to engage with each other, the broader north Georgia community, and beyond. With 20 years of experience in higher education administration, including service as chief research officer to three institutions, Dr. Novobilski has been able to enable research growth, both award and expenditures, by building an infrastructure that supports success within the resources and opportunities available to a predominantly undergraduate research institution. Prior to earning his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from UT Arlington in 2000, Dr. Novobilski worked in industry as a software engineer. Included in his industry experience is starting a software design and development business that included clients such as Lockheed Martin, IBM, GTE, and ATT. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Novobilski maintains an active program in scholarship, recently serving as a Fulbright Specialist in Belize supporting the development of a 2+2 entrepreneurship. An ACE Fellow, Dr. Novobilski continues to engage with current opportunities for growth within higher education and enjoys learning from the hard won experience of others.
Dan joined Purdue’s College of Pharmacy as a major gift officer in May 2016. Similar to others who have entered the advancement world recently, he is a millennial and this was Dan’s first major gifts job. By diligently implementing this 30-60-90 day plan set forth by John Dinkens, Dan was able to help debunk the myth “it takes a year to get your feet on the ground.” In the past three years, Dan has far exceeded all of his development metrics, which resulted in Dan being promoted from Director to Senior Director in November 2018. Dan has traveled on more than 700 donor visits, resulting in booked gifts totaling more than $23,000,000. Quick to credit how the first 90 days laid the foundation for his success, Dan firmly believes having an efficient and effective plan for new hires will lead to success for the new hire, success for the organization, and retention of the employee.
John has extensive experience as a professional fundraiser. From non-institutional community organizations to frontline development work in multi-billion dollar higher education campaigns, John has consistently led teams to meet and exceed fundraising goals. John’s six-year tenure at the helm has seen the College achieve six of its top seven fundraising years in unit history. During his career, John has taken great pride in mentoring new hires, with a focus on strategies to train, retain and empower employees for success starting day one of their employment. John’s servant leadership approach and his creation of this 30-60-90 day plan encourage collaboration and performance. John is motivated when the University, College and his employees achieve unprecedented fundraising heights under his watch.
Jill McKinstry is Librarian Emeritus of the University of Washington (UW) and former director of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library and special assistant to the dean of University Libraries for undergraduate education and programs at the University of Washington. Jill is a graduate of the University of Washington Information School and a librarian at the UW for almost 30 years. In 2013, Odegaard Library underwent a much-needed renovation on the 42-year-old building, adding 6,000 additional square feet of useable space on the first floor, new study spaces, skylight, and state of the art active learning classrooms. The renovation received several awards: 2013 AIA Seattle Honor Awards | Honor Award; 2014 AIA National Institute for Interior Architecture Honor Awards | Honor Award; SCUP (Society of College and University P) Design Excellence Award Excellence in Architecture (Category: Building Additions or Adaptive Reuse) | Honor Award; and ALA IIDA (American Library Association & International Interior Designers Association); Library Interior Design Awards (Category: Academic Libraries / Over 30,000sq ft)| Honorable Mention.
Kristin Kelsey is the Architecture and Design Lead for the northwest region. Kristin has over eight years of experience working in both the architecture and interior architecture fields. She holds dual Master’s in Architecture and Interior Architecture from the University of Oregon. Kristin approaches building programming and design from perspective of identifying programmatic opportunities to create considered and complete solutions. Kristin spent the last five years as part of the design staff and an Interior Architecture leader at the Miller Hull Partnership. She worked primarily on tenant improvements, commercial and higher education projects. Kristin was an interior architecture leader at The Miller Hull Partnership. She highlighted chemicals that are present in finishes and building materials and helped remove them, finding alternatives for all future Miller Hull projects. She completed Miller Hull’s Seattle studio renovation, which became Petal Certified in April 2017. Kristin is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon in Portland teaching in architecture and interior architecture.
Cheryl L. Dickter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences and a faculty affiliate of the Neuroscience Program and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. Dr. Dickter received her Ph.D. from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She co-directs the William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (WMSURE), which supports high-achieving undergraduate scholars from underrepresented backgrounds. Her research uses a social cognitive approach to examine how individuals perceive members of different social groups (e.g., racial minorities, autistic individuals, etc.), and how these perceptions differ based on contextual information such as stereotypes. In addition, she examines the degree to which individual differences in autistic behaviors and social anxiety affect emotion identification and the neural processing of emotions. Dr. Dickter has published over 30 articles and book chapters as well as two books. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Dickter is a member of the Neurodiversity Working Group at William and Mary, which focuses on supporting neurodiverse students.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Alberta and a Master of Arts in education from Central Michigan University, Dr. Cameron attended University of Toronto and completed a PhD in Theory and Policy Studies in Education. Her dissertation, “The Lived Experience of Transfer Students from a Baccalaureate Nursing Program,” won the Best Dissertation Award from the Council of Study of Community Colleges in the United States. Dr. Cameron has taught and held several senior administrative positions in the post-secondary system for over 30 years. She is committed to academic excellence balanced with learner centred principles in teaching and learning to educate competent, confident, and caring human service professionals. As co-chair of the Learner Success Committee and Special Advisor to the Vice-President Academic, she is currently developing a strategy to implement Universal Design for Learning Principles college-wide.
