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James C. Black, Jr., Ph.D.

President and CEO, SEM WORKS

Dr. Black has delivered keynote addresses and conducted training workshops for business leaders and educators worldwide. His areas of expertise include leadership, organizational change, customer service, strategic enrollment management, marketing, recruitment, and retention. He has served as a consultant for AACRAO, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, more than 300 colleges and universities, as well as companies such as Microsoft and SAS. He is the 2005 recipient of the 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.” Since 1999, Jim Black has been an IBM Best Practices Partner, one of only twenty-three in the world. Higher education clients have included two-year, four-year, public, and private institutions.

Dr. Black has published four books: Navigating Change in the New Millennium: Strategies for Enrollment Leaders, The Strategic Enrollment Management Revolution—considered to be a groundbreaking publication for the enrollment management profession—GEN Xers Return to College: Enrollment Strategies for a Maturing Population, and Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the Field. He has also written numerous book chapters and articles including articles as a feature writer for The Greentree Gazette.

Jim Black earned a bachelor of arts in English education and a master of education in higher education student personnel services with a cognate in counseling from the University of South Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. degree in higher education curriculum and teaching with a concentration in business administration from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Lynda Wallace-Hulecki

Registrar and Executive Director, Student Enrollment, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Lynda is a seasoned professional with over thirty years experience in higher education. In her current position at the University of Victoria in Canada, Lynda leads strategic enrolment planning and chairs the university’s enrollment planning committee. Lynda has administrative responsibility for undergraduate and graduate student recruitment, admissions, registration, and records, as well as for student awards and financial assistance, student transitions and orientation, academic scheduling, calendar production, and student systems support services. Lynda also has held an enrollment management position at a four year comprehensive college in Canada, and served for twenty-three years as the director of the college’s institutional analysis and planning office─ a position for which she was awarded a distinguished administrator award. In addition to enrollment management, Lynda has expertise in leading strategic planning processes, facilitating and managing change, and in developing systems for enrollment performance management, assessment, and accountability.

Lynda has served on several provincial and federal committees related to inter-provincial student mobility and higher education accountability systems in Canada. She is an active member of numerous professional organizations (e.g., AACRAO, ARUCC, NASPA, AIR, SCUP, EDUCAUSE) at which she has been both a presenter and a presentation reviewer. In 2000, she participated in Harvard’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE).

Lynda holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Manitoba, and a master of educational administration-higher education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a view to pursuing a doctoral degree. Her graduate research work has concentrated on enrollment management, and specifically on the topic of 'Creating the Conditions for Shared Responsibility of Enrollment Outcomes in Research-Focused Institutions.'

Thomas W. Shaver

President and CEO, Ad Astra Information Systems

Tom Shaver is the President, CEO and Founder of Ad Astra Information Systems. He founded Ad Astra in 1994. He has been responsible for the strategic direction of much of the development of Ad Astra’s software and reporting systems that have been licensed to over 600 College and University campuses. In 2004, Tom authored a United States business process patent application to protect Ad Astra’s inventions in the scheduling software market including: student-specific course demand analysis, high-impact schedule refinement, parking and energy zone aware scheduling, capacity bottleneck resolution, and ERP system integration.

Tom graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kansas in 1987. He is the third generation of the Shaver family associated with The Shaver Partnership, the consulting and architecture firm from which Ad Astra was formed. His grandfather, Charles Shaver, was a prominent architect in the early and middle 1900’s and was also the first registered architect in the state of Kansas. His father, John Shaver, is an innovative educational architect and planner who has designed over 300 educational facilities, won national design awards, and has been featured in several national publications.

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