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<\/p>\r\nDr. Johnstone\u00a0works to help 2-year and 4-year colleges create structures and processes that increase student com<\/span>pletion, learning and labor market outcomes.\u00a0 His unique & engaging approach to inquiry & improvement fuses the world of foundations, initiatives, and system-level policy changes with the ground-level work of college practitioners & college senior leaders.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nHe has worked on the ground with over 350 colleges around the country both directly and on initiatives such as the AAC<\/span>C Pathways Institutes, the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the California Guided Pathways Initiative, Jobs for the Future\u2019s Student Success Centers in 14 states, Gates\u2019 Completion by Design, Lumina's Beyond Financial Aid, a variety of state-level and local college projects, and directly with colleges with NCII\u2019s Agency, Attitude and Intensive Implementation (A2I2) cohort model.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nHe served as a Director, Dean, and Provost in the California community college system for over a decade, and worked as a strategic consultant in industry prior to shifting to higher education.\u00a0 He brings a unique dual perspective with over 25 years of consulting experience in industry and higher education, and brings an energy and passion for authentic change to improve outcomes.\r\nLexie Waugh<\/h1>\r\nSenior Program Manager, Jobs for the Future\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4143\/2019\/11\/06164139\/Alexandra-Waugh-website.width-340.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\n\r\nAlexandra (Lexie) Waugh is a senior program manager for JFF\u2019s Postsecondary team, providing technical assistance and strategic support to state systems and institutions.\r\n\r\nShe helps states and their community colleges increase the number of students who complete college and earn high-value credentials that lead to good jobs. Her responsibilities include developing and coordinating customized technical assistance opportunities for state and systems leaders, as well as networks.\r\n\r\nCurrently, she leads the Student Success Center Network\u2019s state engagement strategy and the Student Success Center Network Leadership Team.\r\n\r\nAlexandra focuses on identifying and expanding state and institutional policies and practices to support learners. She works closely with state education and workforce systems, postsecondary institutions, workforce development boards, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders to design and implement tailored technical assistance strategies. Those efforts include creating customized tools for designing meta-majors, cultivating regional partnerships, assessing organizational capacity, leveraging and braiding funding, engaging employers, and more.\r\n\r\nBefore coming to JFF, Alexandra supported the design and implementation of a five-year research project funded by the William T. Grant Foundation focused on the transition of youth with disabilities into adulthood. She also served under Massachusetts State Senator Cynthia Creem as a Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fellow.\r\n\r\nOutside of JFF, Alexandra is a dedicated community member. She serves on her town\u2019s historical commission and is a member of and a volunteer for the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.\r\nDr. Andrea Wade<\/h1>\r\nProvost & Vice President, Monroe Community College\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4143\/2019\/11\/19135113\/andrea-wade-200x300.jpg\")
Dr. Andrea C. Wade is currently serving as Provost and Vice President of Academic Services at Monroe Community College.\r\n\r\nDr. Wade\u2019s expertise in higher education includes more than 20 years of experience teaching and coordinating learning experiences in classroom, laboratory, clinical, and online modalities.\u00a0 Her administrative areas of interest and expertise include institutional and programmatic accreditation, curriculum development, workforce development, and shared governance.\u00a0 She has written and\/or served as the Principal Investigator or Project Director for a number of grants related to healthcare, workforce, and instructional technologies.\r\n\r\nDr. Wade holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology\/Medical Technology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; and a Master of Science and Doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Notre Dame.\u00a0 She served as a Research Fellow at Notre Dame\u2019s LOBUND Laboratory, where her research focused on tumor and transplant immunology.\u00a0 Her academic teaching career began at Indiana University South Bend and at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.\u00a0 Her career transitioned to the healthcare industry, where she served in both technical and administrative roles in the clinical laboratory, advancing to the position of Clinical Laboratory Manager.\u00a0 Dr. Wade returned to academia at SUNY Broome Community College, eventually attaining the rank of tenured full Professor and also earning the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She then transitioned into higher education administration, where she held responsibility for Distance Education, Professional Development, Adult Education, and the Health Sciences Division as Associate Vice President and Dean at SUNY Broome.\r\nAaron Fried<\/h1>\r\nAssociate Professor, Mohawk Valley Community College\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4143\/2019\/11\/19152727\/aaron-fried-225x300.jpg\")
<\/h1>\r\nAaron Fried will be entering his 21 st year teaching Anatomy and Physiology at the college level in the fall. He also teaches Pathophysiology, Neuroanatomy, and General Biology. He holds Masters degrees in Science Teaching and Instructional Design from Syracuse University and is ABD in Instructional Design. He has served as Curriculum Committee Chair at MVCC for the last 6 years and has been involved with Guided Pathways implementation as a Curriculum Liaison. In the 2018-19 academic year, he worked with the MVCC Curriculum Committee to audit all academic programs and lead the entire college in a Program Mapping Initiative to start the Spring 2019 semester. He was awarded the 2019 MVCC Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.\r\nAnastasia Urtz J.D.<\/h1>\r\nInterim Provost And Senior Vice President, Onondaga Community College\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4143\/2019\/11\/19141948\/Anastasia-Urtz-265x300.jpg\")
Anastasia L. Urtz, J.D., serves as Interim Provost of Onondaga Community College and lead facilitator of the College's student success initiatives. Anastasia's career spans both public and private higher education sectors and open access, comprehensive, liberal arts, land grant, and research institutions. Her professional expertise includes: students and alumni, business and legal affairs, government relations and fundraising, faculty, academic administration and academic support services, and workforce and economic development. She has led numerous collaborative efforts to secure over $30M in external resources over the last five years, including a $3M Title Ill grant that is supporting implementation of Guided Pathways to Success to deliver academic program mapping across the curriculum, revised student intake processes, use of predictive analytics, and implementation of evidence-based student coaching strategies.\r\n\r\nAnastasia served as a 2017-2018 Fellow of the American Council on Education where she focused her work at SUNY Oswego on curricular innovation, shared governance processes, and transfer partnerships. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member in St. John Fisher College's doctoral program in Executive Leadership. Anastasia holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from The American University, Washington, DC, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.","rendered":"Dr. Rob Johnstone<\/h1>\n
Founder and President,\u00a0National Center for Inquiry and Improvement<\/p>\n
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Dr. Johnstone\u00a0works to help 2-year and 4-year colleges create structures and processes that increase student com<\/span>pletion, learning and labor market outcomes.\u00a0 His unique & engaging approach to inquiry & improvement fuses the world of foundations, initiatives, and system-level policy changes with the ground-level work of college practitioners & college senior leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHe has worked on the ground with over 350 colleges around the country both directly and on initiatives such as the AAC<\/span>C Pathways Institutes, the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the California Guided Pathways Initiative, Jobs for the Future\u2019s Student Success Centers in 14 states, Gates\u2019 Completion by Design, Lumina’s Beyond Financial Aid, a variety of state-level and local college projects, and directly with colleges with NCII\u2019s Agency, Attitude and Intensive Implementation (A2I2) cohort model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHe served as a Director, Dean, and Provost in the California community college system for over a decade, and worked as a strategic consultant in industry prior to shifting to higher education.\u00a0 He brings a unique dual perspective with over 25 years of consulting experience in industry and higher education, and brings an energy and passion for authentic change to improve outcomes.<\/p>\n
Lexie Waugh<\/h1>\n
Senior Program Manager, Jobs for the Future<\/p>\n
Dr. Andrea C. Wade is currently serving as Provost and Vice President of Academic Services at Monroe Community College.\r\n\r\nDr. Wade\u2019s expertise in higher education includes more than 20 years of experience teaching and coordinating learning experiences in classroom, laboratory, clinical, and online modalities.\u00a0 Her administrative areas of interest and expertise include institutional and programmatic accreditation, curriculum development, workforce development, and shared governance.\u00a0 She has written and\/or served as the Principal Investigator or Project Director for a number of grants related to healthcare, workforce, and instructional technologies.\r\n\r\nDr. Wade holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology\/Medical Technology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; and a Master of Science and Doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Notre Dame.\u00a0 She served as a Research Fellow at Notre Dame\u2019s LOBUND Laboratory, where her research focused on tumor and transplant immunology.\u00a0 Her academic teaching career began at Indiana University South Bend and at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.\u00a0 Her career transitioned to the healthcare industry, where she served in both technical and administrative roles in the clinical laboratory, advancing to the position of Clinical Laboratory Manager.\u00a0 Dr. Wade returned to academia at SUNY Broome Community College, eventually attaining the rank of tenured full Professor and also earning the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She then transitioned into higher education administration, where she held responsibility for Distance Education, Professional Development, Adult Education, and the Health Sciences Division as Associate Vice President and Dean at SUNY Broome.\r\nAaron Fried<\/h1>\r\nAssociate Professor, Mohawk Valley Community College\r\n<\/h1>\r\nAaron Fried will be entering his 21 st year teaching Anatomy and Physiology at the college level in the fall. He also teaches Pathophysiology, Neuroanatomy, and General Biology. He holds Masters degrees in Science Teaching and Instructional Design from Syracuse University and is ABD in Instructional Design. He has served as Curriculum Committee Chair at MVCC for the last 6 years and has been involved with Guided Pathways implementation as a Curriculum Liaison. In the 2018-19 academic year, he worked with the MVCC Curriculum Committee to audit all academic programs and lead the entire college in a Program Mapping Initiative to start the Spring 2019 semester. He was awarded the 2019 MVCC Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.\r\nAnastasia Urtz J.D.<\/h1>\r\nInterim Provost And Senior Vice President, Onondaga Community College\r\n\r\nAnastasia L. Urtz, J.D., serves as Interim Provost of Onondaga Community College and lead facilitator of the College's student success initiatives. Anastasia's career spans both public and private higher education sectors and open access, comprehensive, liberal arts, land grant, and research institutions. Her professional expertise includes: students and alumni, business and legal affairs, government relations and fundraising, faculty, academic administration and academic support services, and workforce and economic development. She has led numerous collaborative efforts to secure over $30M in external resources over the last five years, including a $3M Title Ill grant that is supporting implementation of Guided Pathways to Success to deliver academic program mapping across the curriculum, revised student intake processes, use of predictive analytics, and implementation of evidence-based student coaching strategies.\r\n\r\nAnastasia served as a 2017-2018 Fellow of the American Council on Education where she focused her work at SUNY Oswego on curricular innovation, shared governance processes, and transfer partnerships. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member in St. John Fisher College's doctoral program in Executive Leadership. Anastasia holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from The American University, Washington, DC, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.","rendered":"Dr. Rob Johnstone<\/h1>\n
<\/h1>\r\nAaron Fried will be entering his 21 st year teaching Anatomy and Physiology at the college level in the fall. He also teaches Pathophysiology, Neuroanatomy, and General Biology. He holds Masters degrees in Science Teaching and Instructional Design from Syracuse University and is ABD in Instructional Design. He has served as Curriculum Committee Chair at MVCC for the last 6 years and has been involved with Guided Pathways implementation as a Curriculum Liaison. In the 2018-19 academic year, he worked with the MVCC Curriculum Committee to audit all academic programs and lead the entire college in a Program Mapping Initiative to start the Spring 2019 semester. He was awarded the 2019 MVCC Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.\r\nAnastasia Urtz J.D.<\/h1>\r\nInterim Provost And Senior Vice President, Onondaga Community College\r\n\r\nAnastasia L. Urtz, J.D., serves as Interim Provost of Onondaga Community College and lead facilitator of the College's student success initiatives. Anastasia's career spans both public and private higher education sectors and open access, comprehensive, liberal arts, land grant, and research institutions. Her professional expertise includes: students and alumni, business and legal affairs, government relations and fundraising, faculty, academic administration and academic support services, and workforce and economic development. She has led numerous collaborative efforts to secure over $30M in external resources over the last five years, including a $3M Title Ill grant that is supporting implementation of Guided Pathways to Success to deliver academic program mapping across the curriculum, revised student intake processes, use of predictive analytics, and implementation of evidence-based student coaching strategies.\r\n\r\nAnastasia served as a 2017-2018 Fellow of the American Council on Education where she focused her work at SUNY Oswego on curricular innovation, shared governance processes, and transfer partnerships. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member in St. John Fisher College's doctoral program in Executive Leadership. Anastasia holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from The American University, Washington, DC, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.","rendered":"Dr. Rob Johnstone<\/h1>\n
<\/p>\nHe has worked on the ground with over 350 colleges around the country both directly and on initiatives such as the AAC<\/span>C Pathways Institutes, the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the California Guided Pathways Initiative, Jobs for the Future\u2019s Student Success Centers in 14 states, Gates\u2019 Completion by Design, Lumina’s Beyond Financial Aid, a variety of state-level and local college projects, and directly with colleges with NCII\u2019s Agency, Attitude and Intensive Implementation (A2I2) cohort model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He served as a Director, Dean, and Provost in the California community college system for over a decade, and worked as a strategic consultant in industry prior to shifting to higher education.\u00a0 He brings a unique dual perspective with over 25 years of consulting experience in industry and higher education, and brings an energy and passion for authentic change to improve outcomes.<\/p>\n Senior Program Manager, Jobs for the Future<\/p>\nLexie Waugh<\/h1>\n