Leadership & administration
I am energized by the challenge of academic administration: finding better ways to support students, help faculty thrive, and turn institutional priorities into programs that work.
Scope of leadership
As Associate Chair for Academics in Biology, I work across curriculum, personnel, resources, policy, and student support. The goal is not simply to keep a large instructional program running. It is to make the program more coherent, equitable, responsive, and effective.
Instructional budgeting, course scheduling, faculty assignments, enrollment planning, laboratory capacity, and delivery across campus and online programs.
Faculty recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, evaluation, promotion support, professional development, and oversight of adjunct instructors and graduate teaching assistants.
Degree planning, course portfolios, curriculum governance, student learning outcomes, program assessment, accreditation reporting, and high-enrollment course coordination.
Cross-unit work with advising, enrollment management, institutional research, university committees, academic leadership, and major facilities planning.
Leadership in action
Moved selected courses online in accelerated eight-week formats to expand access, free laboratory space, improve student progression, and reduce projected instructional costs by approximately $200,000 in one academic year.
Created instructional positions, recruited and supported teaching faculty, strengthened onboarding and evaluation, and helped make evidence-based professional development a departmental norm.
Advanced online graduate education, a pre-clinical Biology track, clinical-skills training, a high-achieving first-year scholars program, and emerging industry-aligned graduate curricula.
Contributed leadership in curriculum governance, enrollment management, program review, core curriculum implementation, assessment, and planning for a major Life Science Building renovation.
How I lead
The best academic strategy respects both the mission of the institution and the experience of the people responsible for carrying it out.
Return to homepageUse data and direct experience to distinguish root causes from symptoms.
Consider students, faculty workload, finances, facilities, policy, and long-term sustainability together.
Engage the people whose knowledge and commitment determine whether change will succeed.
Translate plans into processes, communicate expectations, measure results, and adjust when evidence calls for it.