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Biography

Leading the development of 黑料正能量 Online to provide high quality online access to students and professional learners. An academic leader specializing in online learning, workforce development, continuing and professional education. Focused on innovating degree and non-degree attainment through, technology-enabled, skills-based learning models.

With a background in management consulting, corporate strategy and operations, fosters highly collaborative, new products, organizations, and learning designs, with the intent of advancing social impact. A results-driven manager of startups and mature businesses in professional services and higher ed, committed to building organizations that connect learning innovation to the future of work.

Specialties as a business leader and professor of strategy, include: strategy development, planning, performance management, organizational design, business process improvement, financial analysis, strategic communications and change management.

Passion for working with faculty and practitioners to improve the learner experience and learning outcomes.

Areas of Expertise

Online Education

Micro-Credential Development

Higher Education Strategy and Operations

Online 黑料正能量 and Student Service Models

Professional and Executive Education

Academic Innovation

Accomplishments

Awarded Strada Education Innovative Solutions in Education to Employment Grant

2019 Strada Education Network provided a $1M grant to help George Mason University launch the ADVANCE Career Accelerator Toolkit. ADVANCE is a seamless transfer pathways partnership between Mason and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) that offers students defined roadmaps and integrated support services leading to successful completion of a bachelor鈥檚 degree. Article 1 - https://bit.ly/3zA0oOm Article 2 - https://bit.ly/3ttKD7p

Launched the ADVANCE NOVA/Mason Partnership

2018 ADVANCE is an exciting partnership between Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and George Mason University (Mason) that gives NOVA students targeted, personalized support to complete their bachelor's degrees in a timely manner and save money. From HigherEdToday.org - https://bit.ly/3HiMcuM Learn more about NOVA - https://www.nvcc.edu/advance/

Launched the Online Virginia Network (OVN)

2016 Learn more about OVN - https://onlinevirginia.net/

CEB (Gartner) Force of Ideas Award

2015 Learn more - https://prn.to/3ObJeKR

Hermes Creative Award: Platinum and Communicator Award

2011

Education

Columbia University

Ph.D.

International Political Economy

2000

Columbia University

M.A.

Political Science

1996

London School of Economics

M.Sc. (with distinction)

International Relations

1992

University of Pennsylvania

B.A.

History

Media Appearances

AU dean believes trains are in Augusta鈥檚 future

Augusta Business Daily  online

2024-07-09

Recent announcements from both of Georgia鈥檚 senators caught the interest of a dean at 黑料正能量. In a December news release, Senators Jon Ossoff (D) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D) announced grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to study the feasibility of three new passenger rail corridors connecting Georgia with cities in North Carolina and Tennessee. The lines would connect Atlanta to Savannah, Charlotte, and Chattanooga. Dr. Marc Austin, Dean of 黑料正能量 Online, told ABD he sees another opportunity. Developing passenger train service between Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta. 鈥淚f you look at the northeastern part of the country, it has trains that allow people to move much more freely and easily, and I think that same opportunity should be here in Georgia, where our economy is growing and the need for labor is high,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 think connecting the state with more modes of transportation, especially fast, efficient, effective transportation, ease a little bit of the burden on our infrastructure, which is taking a beating from the trucks and the cars.鈥� Three grants of $500,000 each will fund studies to determine if passenger rail service connecting Georgia to other states is achievable. 鈥淐reating new transit options with routes connecting Atlanta to Savannah, Charlotte, Chattanooga, and cities in between would be a boon to our state and economy,鈥� said Warnock in the news release. 鈥淚鈥檓 thrilled to announce new investments to explore three new passenger rail corridors in Georgia, and I鈥檓 glad to work with Senator Ossoff to get this done.鈥�

Preparing to launch 黑料正能量 Online

The Augusta Press  online

2022-08-13

By fall classes in 2023, 黑料正能量 expects to offer a completely new way to attract students, an avenue that could lead to enrollment doubling. 黑料正能量 Online has a webpage with the nuts and bolts of what will be the first steps and long-range vision. 鈥淎s Augusta鈥檚 new online college, we will create connected classrooms fostering active, experiential learning. We will make education more accessible for the working learner and create access to excellence for Georgians and beyond.鈥�