Internationalization

  • Fulbright-Nehru International Administrators Program (2016): This two-week program is designed to provide selected U.S. administrators the opportunity to familiarize themselves with higher education in India.

  • Led the development and implementation of a 3-year global arts initiative—Otterbein and the Arts: Opening the Door to the World. This initiative received National Endowment of the Arts Funding, regional and local foundation support as well as private donor commitments.  http://www.otterbein.edu/public/About/Calendars/ArtScene/OpeningDoors.aspx

  • Conceptualized a comprehensive internationalization program for the university with collaboration from enrollment services, student affairs and institutional advancement leading to an increase in the number of faculty-led trips, an increase in the number of comprehensive international partners that are facilitating student-exchange and faculty exchange, and with an eye to ensuring that our student support structures are adequate to serve the needs of both incoming and outgoing students. Partnerships include Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa, ULACIT in Costa Rica, Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Brazil, and Taylor’s University in Malaysia

  • Established a partnership with Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Brazil to align the work of Otterbein’s Central Ohio English Learners’ Education Collaborative with the work of Language and Cultural Center in Curitiba. This has led to student exchange and faculty exchange that will include joint research and teacher exchange through our partnership with Columbus City Schools.Established records each semester for new students enrolled both at the undergraduate and graduate level

  • Set up new partnerships with institutions to secure among other things the 100,000 Federal Grant in partnership with UNIVA in Guadalajara, Mexico

  • Created new exchange agreements with universities in Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, and Ireland

Enrollment, Retention and Student Success

Fulbright-Nehru International Administrators Program (2016): This two-week program is designed to provide selected U.S. administrators the opportunity to familiarize themselves with higher education in India.

  • Led the development of a comprehensive strategic plan to include the following strategic priorities: https://www.sfc.edu/why-sfc/forward

  • Enrollment: Revamped the enrollment strategy comprehensively including the complete overhaul of the financial aid and scholarship regimen and the engagement approach in recruitment leading to marked increases in enrollment and tuition revenue  for new first-time degree seeking students after a 13% overall decline, e.g., Fall 2017: 436 incoming headcount; Fall 2018: 561 incoming headcount; Fall 2019: 650 incoming headcount; Fall 2020: 742incoming headcount; Fall 2021 (408) COVID; Fall 2022 (580): Additionally, the College: tripled the number of graduate students; set record enrollments for international students.

  • Led the development of a data analytics initiative on three distinct campuses that included predictive analytics models and a retention analysis that examined the factors influencing retention (first to sophomore year) with a special emphasis on the magnitude of these effects (Published and presented the work related to this initiative.)

  • Led a comprehensive redesign of advising for new incoming first-year students and transfer students.

  • With the Director of Multicultural Services developed two successful grant applications to broaden collaborative support for students from low-income backgrounds and 1s.t generation college students