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The following is a partial list of expert presenters who will be speaking at SEMM Forums in 2010.
More presenters will be added shortly. All details are subject to change.
Dr. Jim Black
President & CEO
SEM Works
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Dr. Black has delivered keynote addresses and conducted training workshops for business leaders and educators worldwide. His areas of expertise include leadership, organizational change, customer service, strategic enrollment management, marketing, recruitment, and retention. He has served as a consultant for more than 300 colleges and universities, as well as companies such as Microsoft, Blackboard, and SAS. He is the 2005 recipient of the AACRAO Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Black has published four books: Navigating Change in the New Millennium: Strategies for Enrollment Leaders, The Strategic Enrollment Management Revolution—considered to be a groundbreaking publication for the enrollment management profession—GEN Xers Return to College: Enrollment Strategies for a Maturing Population, and Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the Field. He has also written numerous book chapters and articles including articles as a feature writer for The Greentree Gazette.
Jim Black earned a bachelor of arts in English education and a master of education in higher education student personnel services with a cognate in counseling from the University of South Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. degree in higher education curriculum and teaching with a concentration in business administration from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Philomena Mantella
Senior Vice President, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs
Northeastern University
Philomena Mantella joined Northeastern as vice president for enrollment management in January 2001. In spring 2002, she was promoted to her current role as senior vice president for enrollment management and student affairs.
Mantella holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s of social work degree from Syracuse University, and a doctorate in educational administration from Michigan State University.
Mantella’s background includes broad experience in virtually every area of enrollment management and student services. Prior to coming to Northeastern, she served for five years as executive vice president for enrollment management and student life at Pace University in New York.
Mantella has worked for 25 years in higher education. She served as the senior enrollment manager and senior student affairs officer at a number of public and private universities. She is responsible for developing and administering the university marketing, recruitment and retention strategies, as well as directing university-wide services in admissions, financial aid, registrar, student affairs and academic and cultural enrichment services.
Mantella has also served as vice president for student affairs at SUNY College of Optometry, a small, state-supported graduate and professional college, and as associate dean of enrollment services . at Ferris State University in Michigan. Prior to that, she was responsible for the offices of financial aid at three institutions.
Mantella presents frequently at meetings and conferences of the state and regional Financial Aid Association, College Board, Registrars and Admission Officers Association and various enrollment management associations. She has published in enrollment management, marketing and organizational design.
Graham Donald
President
Brainstorm Consulting
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Graham Donald is a leading expert on developing and managing the future workforce, campus recruiting, and career services management. Over the past 20 years he has advised hundreds of major employers and career services offices across Canada and the U.S. Each year he speaks at more than a dozen conferences on a wide range of topics that include recruiting Gen Y, developing strategic hiring programs, strategic planning for career services, and engaging and marketing to students. His primary role as a consultant with career centers and other student services is to facilitate the strategic planning process to help support student engagement and success.
Each year, he conducts extensive research into student attitudes towards education, careers and employers. He uses this expertise and his extensive experience in the campus recruitment marketplace to advise major employers when developing programs to attract, recruit, retain, and manage new student hires.
Graham was Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE) for seven years. In 1996, he conceived and launched Campus WorkLink, which quickly became Canada’s largest job posting site for students and graduates. Campus WorkLink was sold to Workopolis.com in 2001 where he worked as part of the senior management team until starting Brainstorm Consulting in 2003.
Through Brainstorm Consulting, Graham has developed a series of Campus Recruiting Forums in cities across North America for employers of post-secondary students and graduates. He also created The Canadian Institute for Career Centre Management – a management training program for campus career centre directors – and the Career Services Summit for leaders of campus career centers. His most recent program is the Strategic Enrollment Marketing & Management Forum (SEMM Forum) in Canada and the U.S.
Earlier in his career, Graham was owner and president of Turl Street Publications Ltd.; a founding director of the Career Edge National Internship Program; and a founder, past president, and life member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Canada. He is also a former owner and director of a children’s canoe tripping camp, Camp Temagami. He received both his BA and MBA from the University of Toronto.
Ken Steele
Senior Vice President, Education Marketing
Academica Group Inc.
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Ken Steele is co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Academica Group, which has offices in Boston, Toronto, and London Ontario. He spends most of his time elsewhere, though, delivering campus presentations on emerging trends and enrollment research findings, and speaking at dozens of conferences across North America every year.
Once an award-winning doctoral candidate in Shakespearean drama, now a lapsed academic who takes every opportunity to be back on campus, Ken’s day job includes developing brand strategy for forward-looking colleges and universities, leading strategic summits with senior university administrators and governing boards, and developing data-driven models to measure and understand institutional reputation and brand perceptions. Ken has been particularly instrumental in the refinement of Academica Group’s massive annual survey of higher education applicants, the UCAS Applicant Study (tm), now in its 14th year, which gathers extensive information about the perceptions and decision-making processes of more than 150,000 college and university applicants every spring. Ken is also editor of Canada’s leading higher education news daily, "Academica’s Top Ten," and one of North America’s leading commentators on emerging trends in higher education.
Brad Ward
CEO
BlueFuego, Inc.
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Brad J. Ward is the CEO at BlueFuego, Inc, an international higher education consulting firm. He has spoken around the globe at over 50 higher education conferences and workshops, including recent events in Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.
His work has been featured in magazines and websites such as Campus Technology, University Business, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Wired, CNET, New York Times and more. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Leadership from Butler University. Prior to starting BlueFuego, Ward was the Electronic Communication Coordinator in the Office of Admission at Butler.
BlueFuego’s clients include Abilene Christian University, University of Wollongong, Bentley University, Indiana University East, Northeastern University, UMass Amherst and more.
Brad blogs at http://squaredpeg.com and you can find him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bradjward.
Dr. Neal Fogg
Senior Research Analyst
Northeastern University
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Dr. Neal Fogg has conducted extensive analyses in a broad area of enrollment management, including retention, admissions, and financial aid policy. He speaks regularly about his research, to administrators and other campus constituents and at national enrollment management conferences. Prior to his positions working for Northeastern, he was employed at the Center for Labor Market Studies, an economic research center specializing in issues related to education and training and their impacts on the economic well-being of persons and families. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University in 1996.
