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13 Years of Higher Education Experience in Admissions and Enrollment Management at a Private Institution with an enrollment in excess of 15,000 students, offering over 70 Bachelor's and 18 Associate's degrees. Expertise in Admissions, Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, Leadership, and Research.
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Helen Gonzalez serves as a Senior Applications Business Analyst for the Division of Academic and Career Success. She works closely with the Associate Provost and various units across campus in helping to coordinate technology efforts to help achieve student success at Florida International University (FIU). She has over 20 years of experience working in Information Technology and digital media. Helen has been a state, regional and national conference presenter for conferences such as National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), HEUG Alliance and Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (FACRAO) on multiple occasions. She is a graduate of the inaugural Presidential Leadership Program cohort and the Educational Leadership Enhancement Program (ELEP) 2017-2018 cohort. Helen has also served as the Chair for the Florida Academic Advising Association (FLACADA) as well as the Director of FACRAO’s Institute of Strategic Enrollment Management (FISEM), and is currently serving as FACRAO’s Director of Technology.
Edward F. Trombley III is Registrar at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide. With more than 25 years of experience in education, he has also served as Senior Operations Manager, Registrar’s Office at Walden University; Registrar at DeVry University in the Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. metro regions; and Dean of Administration at Bryant & Stratton College in central New York. He currently serves as President for the Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (FACRAO), as Vice President for Topics in Higher Education for the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (SACRAO), and has previously served as a program committee member for ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥.
Dr. Steven Taylor is the Founder and CEO of Ed2Work and a member of the Transfer Task Force for the American Council on Education.
Deana Williams is a graduate of Baylor University and has worked as the Assistant Director and Residency Office at the Graduate and International Admissions Center of the University of Texas at Austin. She collaborates with ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥'s International Publications Advisory Committee (IPAC) and has participated in numerous workshop and conference presentations for organizations including ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥, SACRAO, TACRAO, NAFSA, College Board, NACAC, and the Texas Bar Association.
Philip Hunt, J.D., LL.M., currently serves as Special Assistant to the President & University Registrar at North Dakota State University where he is responsible for the supervision and operation of the Registration and Records Office. He also coordinates strategic planning for retention and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Dr. Hunt has more than 20 years of higher education experience, Before NDSU, he was the registrar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He has also held several positions at George Mason University, which included serving as the inaugural director of access and diversity initiatives, compliance officer for FERPA and FOIA, and associate registrar. His experience also includes positions at the NCAA and in secondary education.
Because giving back is important to him, Hunt is very active in his profession where he is a member of the Black Caucus, former Chair of the UMACRAO Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, as well as the Vice President for Leadership and Management Development for the ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ Board of Directors. Your Role in Shared Governance
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2020 ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ Elections - Nominations and Elections Committee Candidate
Kizzy Morris, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Cheyney University has over 23 years of progressive higher education experience in academic administration, admissions, financial aid, student billing, registrar, placement testing, institutional research, and IT systems coordination. Kizzy’s student-centered philosophy is the driver for her work with different institutions on enrollment services, student success pathways, and employee and faculty professional development.
Throughout her career, Kizzy has been a member and officer of several professional organizations, often presenting at conferences throughout the US on topics such as student services, enrollment management, financial aid, student information systems and career development. With ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥, she serves on the Black Caucus and the Professional & Staff Development Committee and has co-taught Registrar 101. Her current research emphasis is on mentorship where she is leading the effort to create a Mentorship Toolkit as part of a statewide diversity consortium focused on education.
Kizzy holds a Master's degree in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University, where she graduated with honors. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership in Higher Education from Capella University.
If elected, she intends to work with the Nominations and Elections Committee to establish and promote different membership outreach efforts that will encourage participation in the Association, and ensure that your membership voice is heard and meaningful through representation of officers.
Research & Policy Division Originally from Nashville, TN and always willing to tell you some stories on a long bike ride, Drew received his Bachelors of Arts in International Relations and in French from Allegheny College. Since 2013, Drew has worked in multiple areas of ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥, spending time in the Membership Department and collaborating with Publications before contributing to EDGE. Blessed to work on something representing the intersection of personal and professional curiosities, Drew enjoys highlighting pathways of students along their own personal journeys and sharing and learning more about global education systems.
Drew provides customer service, refines and standardizes EDGE content, and manages projects that anchor ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ EDGE's position as an authoritative guide on comparative international education from a US perspective.
Liesl has 28 years of administrative experience and is a long-standing member of ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥. She currently serves as Assistant Dean and College Registrar for Augustana College. Areas of expertise include program expansion, budgeting, technology implementation, and change management, among others. Liesl received her institution's esteemed administrative recognition award for successfully leading the administrative team that adopted a new student information system. In fall 2019 after four years of planning and 50 years on trimesters, Augustana launched a semester curriculum, an effort enacted by the conversion and implementation team Liesl led.
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Dr. Nino Chinchaladze is the Executive Director of the Foundation “Center for International Education” (CIE), whose mission is to support internationalization of higher education and student mobility between the United States/Europe and Georgia. CIE is part of EducationUSA, with a comprehensive EducationUSA Student Advising Center in Tbilisi and four regional branches located at state universities throughout the country. Nino has Ph.D. in History. She was Deputy Director for the Open Society Georgia Foundation from 1997 to 2006. She has been a member of boards for Higher Education Authorization and accreditation of Georgian higher education institutions. In addition, she was a board member for Millenium Challenge Account Georgia and recently a board member of the Millenium foundation. She is also a board member of EPPM (Education Policy, Planning and Management Institute) and a member of the State scholarships commission. Nino participates in international conferences and seminars, including NAFSA, EAIE, ACA, and ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥. Nino is an active member of Georgian educational community.
Dr. Hasan Huseynli currently teaches Physics at the ADA School in Baku, Azerbaijan. From 2014 to 2016 he was an expert consultant for the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in Azerbaijan. Hasan is founder and chairman of the “Intelligent Citizen” Enlightenment Center Public Union. Prior to his work there he was director of the Ganja Branch of the Open Society Institute –Assistant Foundation, director of the Ganja Education Information Center (which for more than 10 years was in the EducationUSA network), and a consultant in the Office of the President of Azerbaijan. Hasan got his Ph.D. in Physics in 1987 from the Moscow Institute of Electron Technique and was head of the Physics laboratory at Ganja State Agrarian University. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in 2006 a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hasan has participated in several international education conferences in the United States, including as a presenter at ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ Annual Meetings.
Ann M. Koenig is a former ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ Associate Director. Her international education career spanned 33 years, including foreign credential evaluation work in private foreign credential evaluation services, and various positions in admissions, student academic advising, and student records management in a variety of campus settings in the United States and Germany. She has done in-depth research on education in several countries, and is a co-author of the PIER workshop report on Poland (1992), author of the ECE monograph An Overview of the Educational System of Albania (1993), contributor to the NAFSA series A Guide to Educational Systems Around the World, and author or contributor to several ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ publications. Ann has designed and presented numerous training sessions, workshops and conference presentations on country educational systems and best practices in international admission and credential evaluation, for ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥, NAFSA, EAIE (European Association for International Education) and other US and European organizations. She has served on committees with ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ and NAFSA.
Ieva works in the Results Services team, sending exam scores to schools and students around the world. Ieva’s team also looks after historic scores, helping former students to access their grades for credit at university or for job applications.
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Research & Policy Division WILLIAM RAFAEL GIL Senior Director, Government Affairs, ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ In this role, he implements the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission officers (ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥’s) public policy agenda and oversees federal government relations, legislative, policy and regulatory matters that could possibly impact the ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ membership, which is comprised of 11,000 individual members at over 2,600 higher education institutions. He provides information and strategic advice regarding developments in education policy and regulations relating to college admissions, records, student privacy, financial aid and other issues impacting higher education at the federal, state and local levels. Prior to this position he was the Vice President of Programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) where he oversaw all day-to-day managerial aspects of CHCI’s leadership development programs and educational services including the Congressional Internship, Public Policy Fellowship, Graduate Fellowship, Ready to Lead, Scholarship award programs, as well as CHCI’s educational resources, activities and tools. He was also the Associate Vice President for Collegiate Programs and Federal Relations for the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). In this position he was responsible for all aspects of the largest Hispanic internship program in the nation, which coordinates internships for over 600 individuals per year, and forged stronger relationships between the organization, the White House, Congress, federal agencies and member institutions, as well as other national applicable higher education and Hispanic organizations and associations. He also oversaw all regulatory issues that impacted Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) Other working experiences include serving as the Executive Director, as well as a Legislative Assistant, for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), an informal group of Hispanic Members of Congress that is dedicated to advancing issues that affect Latinos in the United States through the legislative process. He has also worked for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program of Arlington County, The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC). He was born in Venezuela and moved to the United States with his family at young age. He has a Masters in Public Administration from the George Mason University and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a double major in Economics and Spanish Literature. He and his wife Kelly reside in Arlington, VA with their two sons - Alexander Rafael and Dominic Vicente.
Bill manages and implements ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥’s public policy agenda and oversees federal government relations, legislative, policy and regulatory matters impacting the ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥ membership.
William has more than 15+ years of student development and enrollment management experience spanning private and public universities and community colleges. He led undergraduate and graduate admission operations serving students in traditional, hybrid and online learning environments. William is passionate and purposeful in partnering with campus administrators in pursuit of successful technology adoption and change management initiatives.
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