Veena A

Associate Professor at the School of Business at RV University, India.

Veena A, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the School of Business at RV University, India.

Signaling of Higher Education Institutions in India: https://www.aacrao.org/research-publications/quarterly-journals/college-university-journal/article/c-u-vol.-100--issue-2---spring-2025/signaling-of-higher-education-institutions-in-india

Juliette Price

Juliette Price

Founding Director, NASH Center for Postsecondary Improvement

Juliette Price serves as the Senior Improvement Science Coach at the Institute for Systems Innovation and Improvement at the National Association of Higher Education Systems, helping bring the discipline of improvement science and quality improvement methods into the higher education sector. She designed the NASH Improvement Model, which builds off of industry-leading improvement models and theory, and incorporates NASH’s expertise in how public higher education systems and campuses function as a key driver of economic mobility and democracy.

Price deeply believes that solutions to our most complex issues can be designed through systems thinking, collaborative problem solving, creating data-informed solutions, and bringing concepts and processes across sectors. She currently holds multiple roles across different sectors, including in health care, higher education, and social care.

Price focuses on using improvement science to help organizations improve and reach optimum performance. She is trained in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Improvement Model and routinely trains teams in the Model for Improvement and leads improvement collaboratives across many disciplines. She is a member of the American Society for Quality.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences on a wide variety of topics and provides training as a way to extend her acquired knowledge to others.

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Peter Wolk

LAW OFFICE OF PETER C. WOLK

Mr. Wolk is a lawyer who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College (CT), earned a Master of
Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Nonprofit Administration, Planning, and
Social Policy, and graduated with a juris doctor degree cum laude from American University’s Law

School.

Mr. Wolk’s practice focuses on tax exempt organizations. He represents the interests of national,
regional, and local nonprofit organizations of all kinds, including membership organizations, medical
societies, community charities, trade groups, Internet watchdog groups, educational groups, religious
organizations, international relief groups, amateur sports organizations, higher education entities,

health and environmental nonprofits, social welfare groups, and scientific research groups.

In his law practice, Mr. Wolk advises clients on day-to-day and strategic governance, inter-entity
transactions, joint ventures, nonprofit formation, corporate documents, mergers, tax, fund raising,
employment issues, intellectual property, overseeing outside litigation counsel, contracts, Board
meetings, and the permissible range of activities for tax-exempt organizations. His expertise extends
into conducting Board training retreats, legal audits, and strategic planning sessions. He has taught and

counseled scores of nonprofits of different tax status.

He teaches Nonprofit Law and Governance at American University and has taught Nonprofit Law for
the D.C. Bar for over 20 years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross

National Capital Chapter, and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington.

Mr. Wolk has twice been honored as Volunteer of the Year for the Arts, was lead legal counsel for the
enactment of the D.C. Nonprofit Volunteer Immunity Law, and has written The Art of Creating
Nonprofit Organizations (Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts), How to Develop Self-Sustaining Nonprofit Organizations (U.S. Department of Energy, Clean Cities Program), The Paper Chase: Non-

Profit Filings, Forms & Record Keeping, and served as Special Editor of Developing Fundraising Policies and Procedures.

He is the author of two editions of The Formbook for College and University Attorneys, comprised of

approximately 700 pages of nonprofit contract and other legal forms.

He worked and testified on the revision of the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Code.

His bar leadership activities have been honored by both the American Bar Association and the District

of Columbia Bar Association.

Mr. Wolk is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the
United States Supreme Court.

Kay Eilers

Associate Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Since 2021, Eilers has been Associate Vice Chancellor and leader of the Division of Strategic Enrollment Management and Student Success, which is comprised of 11 departments and approximately 160 full-time employees.

Serving as the university’s chief enrollment officer, she spearheads the institution’s strategic enrollment management (SEM) planning process. During her tenure, UWM has increased incoming domestic student enrollment, fortified the institutional student aid strategy (including the introduction of the Milwaukee Tuition Promise program), reorganized career and experiential education services for students, and strengthened the university’s student success infrastructure.

Capstone: Ready or Not: Institutional self-assessment on readiness for SEM planning

2025 SEM-EP Graduate

Seth Zlotocha

University Registrar, Marquette University

University Registrar, Marquette University

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Tim Haight

Assistant Director of Financial Aid, Swarthmore College

Tim Haight is currently an Assistant Director of Financial Aid at Swarthmore College. He started his career in financial aid at the Community College of Allegheny County in 2018. He holds a B.A. in English Writing and an M.Ed in Higher Education Management, both from the University of Pittsburgh.

Capstone: Literature Review on The Impact of Course Scheduling on Strategic Enrollment Management 

2025 SEM-EP Graduate

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Dr. Shelly Hsu

University Registrar - California State University, Fullerton

Shelly Hsu is the University Registrar at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), where she directs all facets of academic records, registration, transfer credit evaluation, degree audit, and enrollment reporting for more than 40,000 students. With 17 years of progressive leadership in public research and comprehensive universities, she excels at streamlining policy, technology, and service to advance student success. Hsu’s tenure at CSUF is defined by innovation and measurable results. She led the first CSU‑system launch of the uAchieve Planner, giving undergraduates term‑by‑term roadmaps that integrate seamlessly with PeopleSoft registration.

 

Her team’s automation of transfer‑credit workflows, cutting evaluation turnaround time, partnered with IT to batch undergraduate degree conferral, which awarded 9,000 degrees in a single night with zero manual touchpoints annually. Shelly is an active member of AACRAO, PACRAO (where she currently serves as Vice President for Membership), and EDUCAUSE. Shelly earned her Ed.D. from California State University Fullerton, M.Ed. from Ohio University, and a B.A. from National Taipei University. Outside the office, she mentors emerging higher‑ed leaders, and enjoys exploring Southern California with her husband and daughter.

Oleksii Golikov

Product Manager, Ellucian Transfer

Josh Gardiner

Director of Product Management, Ellucian

Khanoosh Venghat

Product Lead - QDox & Intelligent Document Processing, Quantiphi

Brian Herndon

National Sales Leader - Public Sector, Quantiphi

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Dr. Sasha Galbraith

CEO of Galbraith Management Consultants

Dr. Sasha Galbraith is the CEO of Galbraith Management Consultants, an international consulting firm specializing in solving strategy and organization design challenges across corporate, business unit and geographical levels. Her expertise in strategy and organization design has enabled her to develop a particular focus on senior executive women and women entrepreneurs. She provides consulting and training services to large multi-national organizations on management and corporate performance issues. Dr. Galbraith is the author of Anatomy of a Business: What it is, what it does and how it works, an instructive and entertaining look at business from every angle for the layperson. She has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Huffington Post. Her writings explore women-founded and -designed organizations and how they differ from traditional, masculine organizations.

Michael Wilson

Director of APSU’s GIS Center

Michael Wilson is the Director of APSU’s GIS Center and has worked on numerous local, state, and federal projects and grants. In the past 20 years, he has mentored and trained numerous APSU graduates who are now working in both the public and private sectors. Wilson received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, his M.S. in Geosciences from Murray State University, and his B.S. in Geology from Kutztown University.

Using Esri Research to Enhance Campus Strategic Enrollment Marketing Efforts

 

 

Andrew L. Luna

Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Virginia Military Institute

Andrew L. Luna is Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Virginia Military Institute. He has served nearly 40 years in in higher education, with almost 30 of those years in institutional research. He has published research studies on many topics including market research, assessment, quality improvement, and salary studies. Luna received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in higher education administration and his M.A. and B.A. degrees in journalism all from The University of Alabama.

Using Esri Research to Enhance Campus Strategic Enrollment Marketing Efforts

 

 

Christy Walker

Dean of Equity & Well-Being at Central Oregon Community College

Christy Walker is the Dean of Equity & Well-Being at Central Oregon Community College. Her professional background includes administrative and leadership positions within the office of diversity and inclusion and student affairs. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in tourism and outdoor leadership with a focus on experiential education from Oregon State University-Cascades and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from Portland State University. She facilitates various trainings on equity, diversity, and inclusion for COCC and the Central Oregon community.

Avanza, The Good Road, and LEAD: College Access Programs the SEM Connection

Tanya Tarlit

Trades Program Administrator, Okanagan College

Tanya Tarlit has been working at Okanagan College in various capacities since 2005. Starting as an educational advisor, Tarlit moved to vocational instructor, then student, graduator and co-op development coordinator, and currently she is the Trades Program Administrator — working in various employee groups has given her a unique perspective. Through all these placements, student success is her greatest motivator, and transforming lives and communities is a mission she takes to heart. Her progressive experience in working with dual credit students, women in trades, and students with disabilities allows for a unique perspective within SEM. Tarlit has a scope of practical expertise that includes programming, curriculum development, recruiting and advising high school and postsecondary students. Her educational credentials include a Master’s Degree in Community Development, a Bachelor of Management, a Provincial Instructors Diploma, and a Recreation Administration Diploma.

Scaling Deep to Make Space for Females in Trades: Transformational Inclusion at a Community College

Kelly Brochu

Construction Trades Chairperson, Okanagan College

Kelly Brochu is working at Okanagan College as Construction Trades Chairperson and previously as a vocational instructor for carpentry. Academically, Brochu has a Bachelor of Education from University of Alberta and completed the instrumentation and control engineering technology program at St Lawrence College. The combination of academic and technical training is what steers Brochu’s life journey and further resulted in obtaining Journeyperson Certification in both carpentry and scaffolding. Diversity has been widely explored over Brochu’s time in the workforce, and he has spent time in the Canadian Armed Forces, teaching at elementary and junior high schools in various areas, including a fly-in school in Northern Manitoba, working as a carpenter and/ or scaffolder, owning a construction business, working as a principal at a small island school off of Vancouver Island and for the last seven years, at Okanagan College, including recently joining the EDISJ Strategy Working Group. Living and working in so many areas and communities has pushed his passion to see people from any place or situation get the opportunity to not just learn but to understand that regardless of what came before, your new learning journey can start now and can be exclusive of what may have been an unsuccessful learning journey from the past.

Scaling Deep to Make Space for Females in Trades: Transformational Inclusion at a Community College

 


 

Delacey Tedesco

Associate Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Okanagan College

Delacey Tedesco is an academic professional with a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Victoria (2016). She taught political theory at the University of Victoria and Human and Urban Geography at the University of British Columbia — Okanagan. She was a lecturer (assistant professor) in critical international relations at the University of Exeter, in Cornwall, UK, from 2017–2022, and remains an honorary lecturer there. Her award-winning research and teaching focus on both conceptual and practical questions of equity and decolonization, in the southern interior of BC and in international contexts. Tedesco’s publications have appeared in journals and edited volumes spanning politics and international relations, human geography, and geohumanities. Tedesco returned to Kelowna in 2022 to become the inaugural cultural advisor with the City of Kelowna, supporting the city’s work toward truth and reconciliation and equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. In that role, she has built meaningful community connections, developed staff learning programs, and supported a wide range of municipal planning projects and collaborative initiatives. She joined Okanagan College in March of 2024 as the inaugural associate director of equity, diversity, and inclusion, leading OC’s work toward transformative inclusion of, for, and by students, staff, instructors, faculty, and community partners. Tedesco maintains an active, interdisciplinary research program with international collaborators.

Scaling Deep to Make Space for Females in Trades: Transformational Inclusion at a Community College

Sara Cousins

Manager, Trades Programs at Okanagan College

Sara Cousins has worked as the Manager, Trades Programs at Okanagan College in British Columbia since 2018. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Enrollment Management from Royal Roads University, a Certificate in University and College Administration from the University of Manitoba, and a B.A. in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University. The focus of her work has been on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice (EDISJ), whether with and for Indigenous communities in land rights and treaty negotiations or for the provincial and federal governments in consultation and engagement with Indigenous peoples, advising for the protection of cultural heritage sites, land use or education. Her current role includes strategic planning and SEM, including supporting the participation and success of Indigenous and female students as part of the larger success of trades students, apprentice admissions, connecting local education and industry partners to instructors and students through mentorship and advisory committees. Cousins is the Chair of the BC Apprenticeship Administrators Working Group and advises on provincial level working groups for enrolment management. She was one of the key authors for the first Okanagan College SEM plan and was instrumental in the priority seat policies for female trades students at her college. Her most recent research focus has been on increasing engagement with families in trades awareness and long-term recruitment. Cousins is a member of the EDISJ Strategy Working Group at Okanagan College, the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology, and the Women in Construction committee of the Canadian Home Builders Association — Central Okanagan.

Scaling Deep to Make Space for Females in Trades: Transformational Inclusion at a Community College





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