Young Professionals in Higher Education Conference Speakers #YPHE16
9:30 – 11 a.m. “The New Science of Leadership Networks,” Dr. Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leaderships, Northwestern University and NICO
Brian Uzzi is a globally recognized scientist, teacher,
consultant and speaker on leadership, social networks, and big data
analytics. He is the Richard L. Thomas
Distinguished Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University.
At Northwestern University, he also directs the Northwestern
University Institute on Complex Systems and is a professor of sociology and a
professor of management science at the McCormick School of Engineering.
Brian has be awarded numerous research prizes, won 13
teaching awards, lectured in over 25 counties, and been on the faculty of
Harvard, INSEAD, University of Chicago, and Berkeley where he was the Warren E.
and Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership.
Media reports of his work appear worldwide in the WSJ, TEDx,
Newsweek, Fortune, Wired, TV, and in the New Yorker Magazine.
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. “Engaging with Faculty: A reflection on several staff-faculty partnerships needed for success,” Dr. Amy Bruinooge, Assistant Dean of Academic & Financial Operations, Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Amy Bruinooge joined the Simon Business School at the
University of Rochester as the Assistant Dean of Academic & Financial
Operations in June. Amy is a double Bruin, recently completing her doctorate in
higher education from the UCLA Graduate School of Education. Amy served as the
Senior Director of Academic Planning & Personnel at the UCLA Anderson
School of Management. Under her direction, Amy transformed the academic
personnel office into a streamlined operation which included strategic
planning, resource allocation to all academic programs, budgetary oversight of
the largest portion of the Anderson budget, and oversight of all academic
support functions. In addition, Amy served on a number of committees and task
forces that have had significant impact on the campus and the school: Anderson
Teaching Improvement Committee; Anderson Staffing Committee; Anderson Research
Committee; Adjunct Policy Task Force; Compensation Task Force; UCLA Campus Academic
Personnel Coordinator Committee; UCLA Volunteer Day; and UCLA Common Book
Ambassador.
Prior to her position at UCLA Anderson, Amy served as the
Senior Personnel Analyst for the Division of Humanities and Division of
Undergraduate Education within the College of Letters & Science. In that
role, Amy spearheaded the recruitment and review processes for faculty within
the Division and instilled best practices. Amy also served as the Assistant
Director of the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies within the
UCLA International Institute, where she managed the administrative, academic,
budgetary, contract & grant (writing) functions, programming and event
planning for a sizable research center.
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. “Moving Forward with Your Higher Education Career – a Panel Presentation
Moderated by Kevin McDonald, Ed.D., Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Rochester Institute of Technology
As a diversity and inclusion professional, McDonald has developed a significant track record of transformational contributions toward organizational equity, diversity, and inclusion goals. His efforts revolve around inextricably binding organizational pursuits of excellence with diversity and inclusion efforts. From access and success, to education and scholarship and institutional infrastructures, Mr. McDonald has worked collaboratively to create initiatives that positively impact policies, practices, processes, and people.
At Virginia Tech, McDonald also served as the director of the Office for Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. He held positions at several other universities, including as associate director, compliance and conflict resolution at Johns Hopkins University and campus compliance officer at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to his work in higher education, McDonald worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and for Network Solutions, Inc.
McDonald holds a law degree from The Ohio State University and a doctoral degree in higher education leadership from the University of Rochester. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich.
Panelists:
Jessica Guzman-Rea, Ed.D., Director of the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center, University of Rochester
Jessica Guzmán-Rea is the director of the Paul J. Burgett
Intercultural Center (ICC) at the University of Rochester. In this role,
Guzmán-Rea promotes collaborative programming and initiatives that are
welcoming to students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds.
The Intercultural Center at the University of Rochester
exists to promote cultural awareness and engagement, and to educate on issues of
diversity. An important function of the ICC,
Guzmán-Rea said, is to provide
opportunities for collaboration among faculty, staff, and students and to
advance awareness about international human rights both in theory and practice
from academic, activist, and artistic perspectives.
Guzmán-Rea first joined the University’s Office of Minority
Student Affairs in 2006, where she served as an academic program coordinator
and counselor, and assisted in recruiting for the Arthur O. Eve Higher
Education Opportunity Program. Most recently, she was as an academic advisor in
the Honors College at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she
also served as an adjunct faculty member in the department of social work.
Guzmán-Rea received a bachelor’s degree from Case Western
Reserve University, and a master’s in social work from Columbia University. She
earned her doctorate at the University’s Warner School of Education and Human
Development in 2010.
Morgan Levy, J.D., Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX Coordinator, University of Rochester
Morgan Levy is dedicated to equality in access and treatment
in higher education communities. After earning a B.A. in history from
Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania she completed her J.D. at the
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. During law school Morgan
developed an interest in dispute resolution which has influenced her work at
institutions of higher education for the past 11 years. Morgan serves as the
Director of Equal Opportunity and the Title IX Coordinator for the University
of Rochester where she oversees compliance efforts related to the areas of
Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Title IX.Bryan Gopaul, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester
Bryan Gopaul, a native of
Toronto, Ontario in Canada, has experienced a profound intersection between his
personal and professional contexts. He explores issues of equity, privilege,
and hierarchy in various educational contexts.
Gopaul’s research interests focus on the experiences of graduate students and the changing nature of faculty life and work. He employs critical theories of education and qualitative methodologies to explore issues of access and equity in graduate education, the employment of graduate students, the pipeline to the professoriate, and academic labor. Currently, his research emphasizes student mobility, conceptions of civic engagement to academic life and work, and international higher education. Finally, his focus on international higher education has examined Canada, the U.S., Kazakhstan, and Morocco, and continues in these jurisdictions and others.
Gopaul completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he collaborated with colleagues in the U.S. and Kazakhstan, exploring higher education reform in relation to governance and financial aid as well as student mobility.
Gopaul’s research interests focus on the experiences of graduate students and the changing nature of faculty life and work. He employs critical theories of education and qualitative methodologies to explore issues of access and equity in graduate education, the employment of graduate students, the pipeline to the professoriate, and academic labor. Currently, his research emphasizes student mobility, conceptions of civic engagement to academic life and work, and international higher education. Finally, his focus on international higher education has examined Canada, the U.S., Kazakhstan, and Morocco, and continues in these jurisdictions and others.
Gopaul completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he collaborated with colleagues in the U.S. and Kazakhstan, exploring higher education reform in relation to governance and financial aid as well as student mobility.
Molly McGowan, MBA, Lecturer, Management, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology
Molly McGowan has spent the past 18 years studying,
practicing and teaching best practices in leadership. She is currently a faculty member in the
Management Department at the Saunders College of Business at the Rochester
Institute of Technology specializing in leadership development, managerial
skills, human resource management, business planning and emotional
intelligence. She was the founding Director of the Leadership Institute at the
Rochester Institute of Technology and is co-founder of the Step Forward
Leadership program for high potential women leaders. Molly has a strong passion
and unique talent for developing others to discover and achieve their
leadership potential. She has an
undergraduate degree from SUNY Geneseo in Political Science, a Master’s in
Public Administration from SUNY Brockport and is currently a PhD candidate in
Organizational Psychology at Grand Canyon University. She is a DISC and Franklin Covey certified
trainer and has developed award winning leadership programs for all levels of
organizations – from frontline employees, to emerging leaders and middle
managers to high level executives. She
has delivered training and coaching for hundreds of individuals both
domestically and internationally.
1:15 – 2:15 p.m. Balancing
Work and Life
Verna Hazen,
Associate Vice President & Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Verna Hazen is Associate Vice President of Enrollment
Management and Career Services and Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships
at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Her responsibilities include management of all facets of awarding
university, federal, state and privately supported scholarships, grants, loans
and need-based work programs, including the strategic use of available
university funds in support of RIT’s enrollment, retention and diversity
goals. The staff of 30 provides service
to prospective and current undergraduate and graduate students. More than 13,600 RIT and NTID students
received over $311 million during the 2014-2015 year.
Prior to RIT, she had experience in financial aid
administration in a variety of environments.
Hazen was assistant director at a small state college in Oregon and then
at a large urban community college in California. She was director of financial aid at the
California Institute of Technology, and then marketing manager for the
financial aid management system at a major software vendor.
Hazen serves as an adjunct professor at the University of
Rochester’s Warner School of Education, co-teaching a summer course on
admissions and financial aid.
She completed the Executive MBA program at RIT in addition
to a Master’s of Education degree from Oregon State University and a bachelor’s
degree from Pacific Lutheran University.
Logan Hazen, Ed.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester
No stranger to student affairs administration and teaching,
Logan Hazen is an associate professor and Program Director at Rochester’s
Warner School Higher Education program. His responsibilities include teaching
courses in higher education, serving as the program director, supervising
higher education internships, advising higher education master’s and doctoral
students, and recruiting adjunct faculty for the higher education program. He
concurrently served as Warner’s director of student services for six years.
Administratively, he spent three decades in student affairs
positions. Following leadership positions in the west, including at the
University of Southern California for eight years, Hazen spent 17 years leading
the University of Rochester’s residential living programs. Professionally, he
has been involved in the leadership at local, regional, and national levels for
a variety of student affairs professional organizations, including founding and
leading two national higher education-based technology organizations.
Academically, Hazen has taught at the graduate and
undergraduate levels at Western Washington University, the University of
Southern California, Canisius College, and the University of Rochester. His
teaching includes student affairs administration; technology in student affairs
and higher education; issues in student affairs and higher education;
residential life in student affairs and the university; and “how universities
work.” He advises 20-25 master’s thesis projects annually, has co-advised four
program evaluation dissertation cohorts, and served as an independent chair,
committee member, or sponsor to more than 40 successful doctoral dissertations.
Hazen holds a doctoral degree from Oregon State University,
Master’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University, and bachelor’s degree from
Whitman College.
1:15 – 2:15 p.m. “Negotiation Training”
Abstract: Like it
or not you are a negotiator. Negotiation is a fact of life. You discuss a raise
with your boss. You buy a house or an automobile. You discuss where to go to
dinner with your significant other. All of these are negotiations. You want to
participate in decisions that affect you. At the university, business,
government or your personal life most decisions are reached through
negotiation. So what is negotiation?
Negotiation is the process by which people with conflicting interests determine
how they are going to allocate resources or work together in the future. We can
learn to improve our negotiation outcomes. We can achieve our objectives while
improving relationships in many negotiations.
Becoming a better negotiator involves both learning and
practicing negotiation skills. In this
session we will introduce basic negotiation concepts that can improve your
ability to negotiate. We will use class
exercises to demonstrate these concepts.
David Oliveiri, Executive Professor of Business Administration, Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Professor Oliveiri has held several executive positions over
a 30-year career in publishing and law. He most recently served as group vice
president of legal education for West Group (an operating arm of
Thomson-Reuters) and president of Foundation Press. He has held positions as
senior vice president and publisher, vice president of business development,
vice president of product systems, and general manager/chief operating officer
for various Thomson subsidiaries and operating groups. Oliveiri began his
career at Lawyers Cooperative Publishing in Rochester, N.Y., where he was a
managing editor, and later, an editorial director. He has also served as
general counsel at Theatre Confections Inc. and was assistant counsel at
Central Trust Bank. He is a member of the New York State and Monroe County Bar
Associations, Beta Gamma Sigma, the Scribes Society of Legal Writers, and the
Academy of Legal Studies in Business. He is licensed to practice law before the
courts of New York State and the Federal Court of the Western District of New
York. Oliveiri is the author of the revised edition of Nimmer’s Commercial
Asset-Based Financing (Thomson/West), a leading legal treatise.Lawrence Matteson, Executive Professor of Business Administration, Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Professor Matteson brings to the Simon School over 25 years
of experience in technology, marketing and manufacturing management and in
strategy development in large corporations. He teaches corporate strategy,
competitive strategy, marketing strategy and negotiation theory and practice in
both the regular MBA and Executive MBA programs.
Matteson was previously senior vice president and manager of electronic imaging at Eastman Kodak Company. He joined Kodak in 1965. He worked for General Electric prior to joining Kodak. He holds a BSEE from Union College and a MS degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He received the Hugh H. Whitney Award for highest academic
honors when he graduated from the Simon School’s Executive MBA Program in 1979. He is a trustee of RIT and serves on several other boards.
2:30 – 4 p.m. Ms. Erica Dhawan, CEO, Cotential, Co-Author, Get Big Things Done
Erica Dhawan is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global
consultancy that helps organizations accelerate the connectedness of their
people, customers, clients and other stakeholders to prepare for the workplace
of tomorrow. As one of today’s most provocative business thinkers on the future
of work, Erica advises business leaders and companies to lead markets through
innovations that matter, create increasing value for customers and clients,
deliver sustainable results and ensure future global competitiveness.
Erica Dhawan is the co-author of the bestselling book: Get
Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence rated #1 on What
Corporate America is Reading. An in-demand speaker, Erica has spoken,
worldwide, to organizations and enterprises that range from the World Economic
Forum at Davos to U.S. and global Fortune 500 companies. Her clients range from
Deloitte, Fidelity Investments, Credit Suisse, and Pepsico. Her writings have appeared in dozens of
publications, including Fast Company, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. In
2015, Erica was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 RADAR award, for the management
thinker around the world most likely to shape the future of business,
management and strategy and was named one of Levo 100’s Transformers alongside
Chelsea Clinton and Alexis Ohanian. She serves as a board member to Deloitte’s Inclusion
External Advisory Council and Lufthansa Innovation Hub."