A Note from Southern Region VP Jenny Krugman
Dec. 2011
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VP Jenny Krugman |
Winter greetings from your colleagues in the Southern Region.
Looking for a sunny beach next October? Try a trip to Miami on Oct. 23 and 24 for our regional forum. Want a follow-up to this powerful regional experience? Stay on the beach Oct. 24–26 for the annual College Board Forum being held right after the regional forum.
The Southern Regional Forum will include dynamic commentary and connections on key issues in college admission, enrollment and financial aid. We will also focus on academic rigor that leads to powerful student achievement in the K–12 world. Finally, we will highlight the nation’s advocacy agenda, with particular emphasis on America’s (and the College Board’s) urgent need to move students through college, work certification or two-year degree attainment by 2025.
Make plans now to join us in October 2012 for the SRO Regional Forum and the College Board Forum. When we convene a short winter, spring and summer from now, you will be able to meet us and learn more deeply of our wish to support your institution’s goals
Who are we at the College Board? We are . . . YOU!Most of our membership and staff come from three areas of the educational landscape: guidance and admission, financial aid and academics.
A regional council made up of members from across 10 Southern states advises our local team.
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Trustee Douglas L. Christiansen |
Trustee Willie J. Gilchrist |
Trustee Mildred R. Johnson |
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Trustee Luis Martinez-Fernández |
Trustee Michael M. Shackleford |
Trustee Gordon E. Stanley |
Chairing our Board of Trustees is Paul W. Sechrist, president of Oklahoma City Community College. Paul both heads our Board and is leading our current search for a new College Board president in the wake of the retirement announcement by our amazing leader, President Gaston Caperton. Gaston, twice elected governor of West Virginia and subsequent creator of an avalanche of College Board tools to guarantee students’ college success, has indicated that he will step aside this coming June.
Aiding Paul Sechrist in his effort is a six-member committee made up of representatives of institutions in the South who have seats on the national Board of Trustees. These voices come from many corners of our educational world.
Douglas L. Christiansen, vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions at Vanderbilt University, is a new member of our Trustees’ team. He has brought innovation to the enrollment effort at his private university, with special emphasis on recruiting and retaining minority students.
Also new to our Board of Trustees is Willie J. Gilchrist, chancellor of Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. He is a leader whose pioneering practices at his university (a member of our historically black colleges and universities cadre) have caught fire at majority- as well minority-serving institutions across the South and nation.
Former chair of our regional council, Mildred R. Johnson, director of undergraduate admissions at Virginia Tech, brings to Blacksburg as well as to the College Board community her reputation as a strategic thinker. Along with Trustee Chair Sechrist, Mildred serves on our presidential search committee.
Just rotating out of the position of chair of the College Board’s Academic Assembly and onto our Board of Trustees, University of Central Florida’s Luis Martinez-Fernández devotes his professorship to teaching, to producing cutting-edge social science studies, and to advising our AP® staff as we revise our AP offerings to better suit the in-depth scholarly direction that universities require.
Michael M. Shackleford is vice president for student affairs at Virginia State University, another institution that is a vital member of the historically black colleges and universities. Everything student centered flows through Michael’s office. Located near Richmond, Virginia State is known for its support of the students it serves. Michael was overheard telling the mother of an entering student that while her daughter attended Virginia State, she would have a second father — Michael himself.
Gordon E. Stanley, director of counseling at the Marist School in Atlanta, brings a wealth of higher education experience to his advisement of his secondary school students and colleagues. Representing this acclaimed independent religious school, Gordon brings to bear his experience with regional College Board efforts as he offers a guiding light at our Trustees’ table.
When you meet us next October, find our Trustees and share with them your own ideas of how we can better support the work you do.
We aim to serve you as you continue to reinforce student success. Join us in Miami next October for a rousing regional forum, and keep sand in your shoes as the annual College Board Forum completes a week of galvanizing and igniting sessions of sharing and learning with key leaders and practitioners from your part of the education family.
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