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Webinar Speaker(s)
Jim
Black, Ph.D., President and CEO
The president and
CEO of SEM Works, Dr. Jim Black, is an internationally recognized
expert in enrollment management as well as in change management. He
has published a monograph titled, Navigating Change in the New
Millennium: Strategies for Enrollment Leaders, and four books, The
Strategic Enrollment Management Revolution, considered to be a
groundbreaking publication for the enrollment management profession,
Gen Xers Return to College, Essentials of Enrollment Management:
Cases in the Field, and Strategic Enrollment Intelligence. Among his
other published works are numerous articles and book chapters
including a feature article in College & University, Creating
Customer Delight; a chapter, Creating a Student-Centered Culture, for
a book on best practices in student services published by SCUP and
sponsored by IBM; a chapter on enrollment management in a Jossey-Bass
book on student academic services; as well as a bimonthly feature in
The Greentree Gazette.
Dr. Black is the
founder of the National Conference on Student Retention in Small
Colleges and cofounder of the National Small College Admissions
Conference and the National Small College Enrollment Conference. He
formerly served as the director of AACRAO's Strategic Enrollment
Management Conference.
Black was honored
as the recipient of the 2005 AACRAO Distinguished Service Award. He
has been interviewed by publications such as The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Converge Magazine, The Enrollment Management Report, The
Lawlor Review, and was interviewed for AACRAO's Data Dispenser. Black
also was featured in an international teleconference on enrollment
management sponsored by The Center for the Freshman Year Experience
at the University of South Carolina, and a PBS broadcast on
"Blending High Tech and High Touch Student Services." In
1999, Jim Black was named an IBM Best Practices Partner, one of only
twenty-three in the world. He was invited by The College Board to
Heidelberg, Germany, to evaluate the APIEL Exam and most recently was
invited to lead conferences on enrollment management and student
services in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Dr. Black has
served on the boards of several technology companies and has
consulted with companies such as Microsoft, Blackboard, and the SAS
Institute. Higher education clients have included over 400 two-year,
four-year, public, and private institutions.
Jim earned a B.A. in English education and M.A. in higher education
administration from the University of South Carolina, as well as a
Ph.D. in higher education curriculum and teaching from The University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. His doctoral experience provides our
clients with unique perspectives into innovative pedagogical,
curricular, and program opportunities that impact enrollment
outcomes. Leveraging his educational background along with his many
years as an associate provost, dean, and faculty member in a higher
education environment, Dr. Black will provide your institution with
strategic insights that are grounded in theory and are
actionable.
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