Staff Highlights

Bernard Mair, APLU’s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, was a plenary speaker and panelist at the Reinvention Collaborative’s Lamborn-Hughes Institute, where he spoke on developing student-centered research universities.

Bernie Burrola, Vice President for International Programs at APLU speaks to members of the Canadian Bureau for International Education on January 26 on how the new administration’s policies and actions will impact international higher education and Canada. View the session Powered by Publics initiative.

Denise Nadasen, APLU’s Assistant Vice President, Data and Policy Analysis, was elected to serve as the Chair of the Northeast Association of Institutional Research’s Finance Committee. The committee oversees the group’s annual budget, maintains financial controls, and advises on the strategic use of funds.

Mair moderated a panel at the HBCU Vice presidents of Research Executive Forum Seminar Series.

Mair joined panelists from Utah State University, AASCU, and StraighterLine to discuss Utah State’s implementation of an earned admissions program, what the results have been so far, and how thinking more expansively about access can help institutions of higher education solve some of their most vexing enrollment challenges.

Karen Vignare, APLU’s Vice President for Digital Transformation for Student Success, will keynote an April 28 conference on using technology in higher education. Her address will focus on using technology in decision making.

APLU’s Jess Bennett, Assistant Vice President, STEM Education, is a featured speaker and one of three equity reform thought leaders in the SEA Change learning series Data-Driven Decision Making. The series provides higher education change leaders the opportunity to expand their knowledge of how to use data to remove the barriers that limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their campuses. Register here.

APLU’s Craig Lindwarm spoke on leveraging federal COVID-19 relief funding to support digital learning at a Every Learner Everywhere webinar. ;https://www.aplu.org/sebin/f/t/Lindwarm1_2_pyramid.jpg;Craig Lindwarm;Vice President, Governmental Affairs APLU’s Rodriguez Presents on How Intermediary Organizations Drive Change Beyond Institutional Success at American Educational Research Association Conference;staff-highlight;

Andréa Rodriguez, Director of Urban Initiatives for USU at APLU, presented on universities systemizing change and how APLU and USU help scale these transformational efforts via the Frontier Set work at the 2022 American Educational Research Association Conference in San Diego, CA.

Alvaro J. Muñiz, Director in APLU’s Office for International, Community, and Economic Engagement, presented at the International Town & Gown Association on how public research universities can partner with their communities to drive local economic development towards national and global impact.

APLU’s Denise Nadasen, APLU’s Assistant Vice President, Data and Policy Analysis, presented on the APLU co-led Data Literacy Institute and the effective use of data to promote student success at the Northeast Association of Institutional Research meeting in Maine.