Director of University Retention and National Student Exchange
Coordinated University’s retention program; developed program to register incoming freshmen by mail; piloted on-site (at community college) registration for community college transfer students; advised over 100 students; coordinated National Student Exchange; developed new General Education Using Information Effectively course to help students adjust to college life; developed early warning program to inform new students of academic vulnerability.

Director of Enrollment Communications
Served on Enrollment Management executive staff (assisted Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management develop strategy for recruitment, enrollment and registration, and financial aid leveraging). Worked with departments in Enrollment Services (Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Enrollment Operations) : prepared form letters for all departments, developed additional recruitment mailings.. Edited University Undergraduate Catalog and Portfolio (viewbook); developed and managed pre-college programs for the University. Created and supervised telephone information center. Supervised Scholarship Office and Student Ambassador program; coordinated National Student Exchange program. Recruited at college fairs to help Admissions Office.

Director of New Student Relations
Served on Student Services Executive Committee. Developed and managed programs to ease transition for new students (booklet on “Tips for Success,” calendar of campus events for September mailed to homes in August, Murder Mystery Orientation program; Summer Readings booklet). Supervised Orientation Department, which ran TRIAD (the one-day Orientation, Advising and Registration program) in July, August, and January, as well as two extra programs (the Murder Mystery and Project Marj, an Outward Bound-like experience). Developed and supervised a two-day overnight orientation program.

Assistant Vice President for Student Services
Worked with the Vice President for Student Services and Dean of Students to initiate programs like mandatory freshman advising and an ethics forum. Managed student problems and ensured that students knew where to turn for help.

Assistant to the President
Organized and planned functions for the President; drafted speeches and radio talks; served as liaison with internal and external communities (faculty, staff, boards); managed student problems; performed studies on production and consumption of student use in departments; performed studies on faculty retention and attrition; managed office staff.

Adjunct Faculty Member, Towson University
Teach Writing for Business and Industry, an upper-level English course, English 102 (freshman English), Introduction to American Studies: From Camelot to Watergate for the American Studies department, A History of the Civil Rights Movement and an upper-level special topics course on the 60’s for the History department.

Coordinator, Baltimore Writers’ Conference
Coordinate committee of people from Towson University’s graduate program in professional writing, Johns Hopkins University’s graduate program in writing and the CityLit Project to plan and manage the conference. The featured speakers are Stephen Hunter, novelist and Washington Post critic, and Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Secretary, Baltimore County League of Women Voters

Colloquium on the Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore
Solicited activists from Baltimore’s Civil Rights Movement to participate on panel: Rev. Marion Bascom; Chief Judge Robert Bell; Mr. Edward Chance, Rev. Vernon Dobson; Mr. Clarence Logan; Dr. Kieffer Mitchell; Marc Steiner (moderator); Rev. Chester Wickwire. Over 150 members of academic and local community attended, including students from high schools and other colleges.

Co-Coordinator, Baltimore Writers’ Alliance Annual Conference
Brought annual conference to Towson University; attracted over 150 participants from neighboring states and Maryland; speakers attended from as far as France, Texas, and North Carolina.

Screening/Student Appeals Committee
With faculty representatives hear and rule on student appeals to judicial decisions. These can be grade appeals or appeals of sanctions for behavior.

Baltimore City Career Connections Committee
Served on Higher Education subcommittee and chaired group to develop a K-16 consortium that would coordinate a regional approach to prepare Baltimore students to better assume their places in the world of work.

Academic Policy Committee, Inter-Institutional Coordinating Committee
Represented Towson University on this committee of a system-wide advisory body. Made recommendations on issues like articulation policies among schools, general education requirements, and seamless transfer programs.

Academic Standards Committee, Towson University
Represented Student Services Division and, later, Enrollment Management Associate Vice President on committee of the University Senate. Committee set academic policy and heard student appeals to those policies.

Council of University System Staff, University of Maryland System
Served as Towson State’s first administrative representative to the Council and was elected to the Executive Committee; met monthly with Chancellor Langenberg; edited Vol. 1, No. 1 of Update, the Council’s report to its consitituency.

Towson State University Staff Council
Founded and chaired advisory body to President and Vice Presidents.

Women’s Forum, University of Maryland System
Represented Towson State on System’s Executive Board and edited Network, System Forum’s newsletter to women in the system; chaired Towson State chapter.

Presenter at NASPA and ACPA National Conferences
Presented workshops on Murder Mystery as and Orientation Tool for National Conferences of National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and American College Personnel Association.

President, Parents’ Association, The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland
Elected to office for the 1997-1998 and 1998 -1999 school years; served ex-officio on Board of Trustees. Re-elected for additional term.

Appeared as guest on “The Bottom Line,” Kweisi Mfume’s WBAL-TV show
Served as expert commentator on the 60’s

Articles on the “British Invasion” and “Theater” for The Sixties in America, an encyclopedia of the 60’s. Salem Press, 1999; “The Actors Studio,” “ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,” “ The NAACP, “ Dance in the Fifties,” and “General Motors” for The Fifties in America (Salem Press, in press); “The Bicentennial Celebration,” “Flex-Time,” “John Sirica” and “The Kent State Massacre” for The Seventies in America (Salem Press, in press)

Book review of Lift Every Voice in the Maryland Historical Magazine, Winter 2000.

Book review of Civil War on Race Street in the Maryland Historical Magazine, Winter, 2003.

Book review of Spare Parts: A Marine Reservist’s Journey From Campus to Combat in 38 Days in the Potomac Review Fall, 2004.

Book review of The Pearl Diver by Sujatta Massey in the Potomac Review, Spring, 2005.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin
Double Major in (American) History and (Technical) Theatre

Master of Science, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland
Professional Writing: Writing for the Public and Private Sectors