Executive Strategic Council

 

Purpose

The Executive Strategic Council (ESC) serves as an advisory body to IMS Global leadership to highlight the major challenges to the learning community worldwide, current and future, and to help guide the strategic priorities of IMS Global member community to advance technology to improve educational participation and attainment.

Description

Members of the Executive Strategic Council

 

Dr. Nicholas H. Allen, Provost Emeritus & Collegiate Professor, University of Maryland University College
Dr. John C. Cavanaugh, President and CEO, Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area
Dr. Paul N. Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan
Dr. Dae-Joon Hwang, CEO, IMS Korea, Provost, Planning & Budgeting and Professor, School of Information & Communication Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University
Dr. Jolene Koester, President, California State University, Northridge
Dr. Bernard Luskin, CEO, Luskin International
Dr. Paula E. Peinovich , President, National Labor College
C. Cathleen Raffaeli, President, Potomac College
Gary Shapiro, Senior Vice President, Intellectual Properties, Follett

 

Dr. Nicholas H. Allen, Provost Emeritus & Collegiate Professor, University of Maryland University College

Nicholas H. Allen was the first provost and chief academic officer of University of Maryland University College (UMUC) from 1998 until his retirement from that post in 2007; he was Interim President while the University searched for a new president in 2005. During these years of dramatic growth in online education, Allen provided academic leadership and strategic direction to UMUC's worldwide operations as the institution emerged as the largest public university in the United States and one of the world’s major virtual universities with online enrollments reaching 177,000 in 2007.  Dr. Allen is a Collegiate Professor in the University’s Graduate School of Management & Technology.

Nick is a frequent and strong voice for continuing and higher education, and an advocate for using technology and process reengineering to achieve access to high quality, affordable education on a scalable basis.  In addition to his role on the Executive Strategic Council of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, he currently serves on the Commission for Lifelong Learning of the American Council of Education, and on the Board of Advisors to InsideTrack, Inc., a student coaching enterprise.  

 

Dr.John C. Cavanaugh, President and CEO, Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area

Dr. John C. Cavanaugh is President and CEO of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Previously, he was chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, effective July 1, 2008.  He serves as the chief executive officer of PASSHE, which operates 14 comprehensive universities with a combined enrollment of nearly 117,000 students. The chancellor works with the Board of Governors to recommend and develop overall policies for the State System.

From 2002 to 2008, Dr. Cavanaugh served as president of the 10,500-student University of West Florida in Pensacola. Among his accomplishments were creating the Academic Technology Center and being one of the original proponents of the Vince Whibbs Community Maritime Park (the largest public-private partnership in Pensacola history). He served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington from 1999 to 2002. He also held various positions at the University of Delaware, including vice provost for academic programs and planning and associate provost for graduate studies.

Dr. Cavanaugh attended St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia before earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology with high honors from the University of Delaware in 1975. He also holds both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Notre Dame, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Research in Human Learning and the Institute of Child Development. He served as an American Council on Education Fellow in 1994-1995 and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, 3, and 20), a Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

He serves as Chair of the Federal Relations Committee of the State Higher Education Executive Officers and as Vice Chair of the Policies and Purposes Committee of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. He is Vice Chair of the Middle States Association Board of Trustees and a commissioner for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Cavanaugh is a member of the Marygrove College Board of Trustees and previously served on several national advisory boards, including the Chronicle of Higher Education and New York Times Higher Education Cabinet; the National Flight Academy, which he chaired from 2004-2008; and the Walt Disney College and International Program.

 

Dr. Paul N. Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan

Paul N. Courant is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan.  From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.

Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over seventy papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, state and local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, his academic work has considered the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries.

Paul Courant holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968); an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973); and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1974).

 

 

Dr. Dae-Joon Hwang, CEO, IMS Korea, Provost, Planning & Budgeting and Professor, School of Information & Communication Engineering of Sungkyunkwan University

Dr. Dae-Joon Hwang is Provost, Planning & Budgeting and Professor, School of Information & Communication Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University and CEO of KERIS (Korea Education Research and Information Service), a leading Ministry of Education-affiliated organization in the educational and research field.

Over past twenty years he has been actively working as an expert on computer architecture (dataflow machine design), parallel processing, multimedia framework design, CSCW, cyber education system, and intellectual property right management. He also has more than 20-year experiences in both doing research and teaching students in Korean Universities. He has been with the faculty of School of EE & CE, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea since March 1987. During the period of Feb. 1997 - Jan. 2004 he took in charge of Provost of SKKU Information and Communication Center and also he served as Provost of Admission. In addition, he spent one year as a visiting professor at MIT and four months as an invited researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, U.S.A. And also he served as an exchange professor at University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. (2001.3-2001.8)

Dr. Hwang has extensive experiences in Cyber Education. During the years 1998-2001, he consulted on cyber education for Ministry of Education and Ministry of Unification of Korea government. At the same time, he worked as a chairman of Planning and Administration Committee of Open Cyber University and his effort contributed to OCU's earning the reputation as a leading cyber university during that time. And also he served as one of national evaluation committee members on ICT utilization in primary and secondary schools for more than four years. He was actively involved as a board member of IVILLE Int'l Inc., in LA, U.S.A., and IVILLE SOFTWARE Inc. in Seoul, Korea, which were co-founded based on his Korean and U.S Patents on cyber education system and platform technology in September 1998. He invested his time about 2 years as a research staff of the committee of Education and Research of World Trade Center Association to design Cyber Education Platform of World Trade Center University operated by WTCA in NY, U.S.A..(1998.9-2001) Especially he recognized as one of the expert with dignity on e-learning and regarded as a key person who paved a way of adopting cyber education into Korea. On recognition of the activities and contributions, he received the Presidential Award from Korean Government in June 1999.

Dr. Hwang earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Technology from Kyung Pook National University, and his master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Seoul National University.

 

Dr. Jolene Koester, President, California State University, Northridge

Dr. Jolene Koester began her appointment as the fourth president of California State University, Northridge on July 1, 2000. The Board of Trustees of the California State University (CSU) formally announced their appointment of Dr. Koester as president on November 16, 1999.

Prior to her appointment, Dr. Koester served as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at California State University, Sacramento, a post she had held since 1993. Before her service as provost, she held other executive positions in the academic affairs division at Sacramento State, and was a faculty member there, as a professor of communication studies, since 1980. She earned a Bachelor's of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1970, a Master's of Arts in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971, and a Ph.D. in speech communication from Minnesota in 1980.

 

Dr. Bernard Luskin, CEO, Luskin International

Dr. Bernard Luskin has had distinguished careers in commerce, education, entertainment and psychology. University Business Magazine selected him as one who has had exceptional careers in both education and corporate life. He is a licensed psychotherapist, with Degrees in Business and a UCLA Doctorate in Education, Psychology and Technology. Bernie Luskin has been president and CEO of divisions of major Fortune 50 and 500 companies, including Philips Interactive Media, PolyGram New Media, Philips Education and Reference Publishing and Jones International, including Mind Extension University, Knowledge TV, and Jones Education Networks. He has authored bestseller economics, technology and education books, television series and CDs. He is credited in working with Paramount Studios in putting the first 50 movies on CD in MPEG format, leading to DVD. He served on the Accrediting Commission for Collegiate Schools of Business, and led the standards team that developed specifications for CDi and CDRom, in addition to working on standards features of MPEG full motion video and recordable CD. While president of Philips Interactive Media, he spearheaded breakthroughs in many areas in CD. This included the first Sesame Street CD, Grolier's and Compton's Encyclopedias, Golf, Art, Children's and reference CDs, including games, and the first interactive movie on CD, entitled Voyeur, starring Robert Culp.

Luskin was previously CEO and Sr. Provost at Touro University Worldwide. Previously he was Executive Vice President, Professor and Director of the Media Psychology Program at  Fielding Graduate University, where he launched the first Ph.D program applying psychology to media. Luskin is also Chairman and CEO of Luskin International . He has served on the boards of directors of the Media Psychology Division and Society of Consulting Psychologists of the American Psychological Association and the Education Policy Committee of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. As a former college and university president, he is founding president of Coastline Community College, including KOCE, TV in Orange County California, Orange Coast College and founding chancellor of Jones International University, the first fully accredited, fully web based university. He is credited with putting the first computer in a community college. Luskin is director of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community College Leadership Legacy Project. He has taught at UCLA, USC, Claremont Graduate University, Pepperdine University and California State University. Luskin received two Emmys, in addition to distinguished leadership and alumni awards from the UCLA Doctoral Alumni Association, California State University at Los Angeles, and The University of Florida, and he received lifetime achievement awards from the Irish Government and the European Union for contributions to education and digital media.

 

Dr. Paula E. Peinovich, President, National Labor College

Dr. Peinovich is currently President as the National Labor College. Dr. Peinovich previously served as the seventh president of Minneapolis-based Walden University from 2003 to 2007, after serving for nearly two years as executive vice president and provost. Before arriving at Walden, Peinovich served as vice president for academic affairs at Excelsior College and was also an adjunct professor in the distance education doctoral program at Nova Southeastern University. Prior to that, she was an executive dean and campus head at Wayne County Community College in Detroit, Mich.
Peinovich serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation as well as the American Council on Education's Commission on Women in Higher Education. From 2000 to 2003 she served on ACE’s  Commission on Adult Learning and Educational Credentials. She also served on the Board of Directors of the University Continuing Education Association from 2003 to 2005, and is a former president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education.  She has been an institutional evaluator for several of the regional accrediting associations over the years and also consults with numerous educational advisory panels and task forces. Peinovich was selected as a  national examiner for the U.S. Department of Commerce's Baldridge National Quality Program in 2003 and in 2007. In 1995, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to England where she conducted research on how British universities create access for adult learners. In 2005 she was named as one of 25 women “Change Makers” in Minneapolis, MN by the Minneapolis Business Journal.

Peinovich received her Ph.D. in higher education policy from the University of Pennsylvania, her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.

 

C. Cathleen Raffaeli, President, Potomac College

Cathleen Raffaeli is President of Potomac College. Previously, she was the President and Managing Director of the Hamilton White Group a global investment and advisory firm. Cathleen is a former CEO with over twenty-seven years of business management. Her focus has been on new business growth, sales and marketing, strategy and asset redeployment for a wide range of industries. She brings a unique blend of marketing, strategy, and technology experience that has served her well in creating competitive advantage for large corporate, entrepreneurial and turn-around situations. During her private company tenure, Cathleen helped to raise approximately $400MM of new capital and bought and sold multiple companies.

Cathleen Raffaeli served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cardean Learning Group (CLG) and the President of Cardean University, an internet-based, adult education university. Prior to that, Cathleen was a founder and CEO of ProAct Technologies, a software and services firm. She also served as CEO for the Consumer Financial Network, a firm offering e-commerce, retail and corporate services to the large and middle corporate market.

Prior to ProAct, Cathleen ran the Global Corporate Credit Card Group of Citibank, a fully integrated business division with a multi-billion portfolio and #2 market share leader. Cathleen was the Global Marketing Executive for the Corporate Bank of Citigroup, where she led all global marketing activities of the $3.2 Billion, 98 country corporate banking franchise. She was the former Senior Vice President in the Lending Group responsible for the East Coast Retail region, the corporate business and all company marketing activities. She came to Citicorp from Chemical Bank where she was a Senior Vice President responsible for retail mortgage lending and national telemarketing. Before joining Chemical Bank, Cathleen held a series of financial positions at Merrill Lynch, Emory and Continental.

Cathleen holds an MBA degree from New York University where she graduated with honors. She is the Lead Director of E*Trade Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETFC) and a Director and Presidential appointee New York Federal Home Loan Bank Board. She is a Director of Brookline College, Potomac College and the University of Business and International Studies in Geneva Switzerland. She is also an adjunct professor in the Stern School of Business at New York University.

 

 

Gary Shapiro, Senior Vice President, Intellectual Properties, Follett

Gary joined Follett Higher Education Group in 1999 and is responsible for all course material product categories. His experience includes management positions in five college stores, serving as the first Deputy Executive Director of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) and as Executive Vice President and General Manager of NACSCORP.  In addition to the development of many industry conferences and project initiatives, including the NACS Copyright Permission Service, ConTEXT and the Campus Computer Resellers Conference, Gary made numerous presentations on the future of the textbook, and is the author of Turning Points: Six Critical Challenges for College Stores.  Gary has a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University.