Joe is committed to partnering with progressive institutional leaders that seek research-informed and evidence-based approaches to advance strategic planning for student success and continuous improvement in service to the mission of their colleges and universities. One major aspect of his solutions is to build mission-critical institutional effectiveness offices from the ground up in order to bolster the internal capabilities of colleges and universities to meet the challenges presented by increasingly competitive markets and more demanding accreditation agencies. Another major aspect focuses on elevating executive awareness to the benefits of fully developing the role and the agency of their institutional effectiveness, planning, and research offices.
Over the course of his twenty-year career, Joe has created or greatly extended the capacities of several research offices. His first was in market research for a company serving the information technology (IT) sector during the height of the “dot com” boom in the late nineties. At the tail end of that exciting era in private sector research, he transitioned to higher education at a public, urban Research I university in Washington state to advance institutional research on student success in distance learning education and self-sustaining academic programs for professionals. After completing a doctoral degree in U.S. History, he established an institutional research and planning office for a suburban community college in Illinois and an institutional effectiveness and planning office at a private, master’s college in New York.
In recent years, Joe has worked as an independent scholar who has published historical works on institutional research and higher education as a field of study, served as a member of the The Registry, the premier agency for the placement of veteran executives dedicated to best practices in interim engagements, and as a grant strategist and writer for colleges and nonprofit organizations who has brought over $20,000,000 funding to the Chicago area.
Having worked in three different types of higher education institutions, Joe has had the opportunity to design and implement a vision to integrate institutional effectiveness and research in a variety of educational settings. You can learn more about his resume and recent contributions on LinkedIn.