2011 ASCA Conference - Featured Speakers

 
 
Conference Featured Speakers
 
 
 
 
Speaker: Donald L. McCabe

 

 Thursday, February 3, 2011
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Island Ballroom
 
Topic: Academic Integrity
 

Don McCabe is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers University. Over the last twenty years he has done extensive research on college cheating, surveying over 185,000 students at more than 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.  He has also surveyed over 27,000 high school students in the United States during the last seven years. His work has been published widely in business, education and sociology journals and he is founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of over 350 colleges and universities based at Clemson University who are joined in a united effort to promote academic integrity among college and university students.   

 

Don has a B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University (1966), an M.B.A. in Marketing from Seton Hall University (1970), and a Ph.D. in Management from New York University (1985). He worked for over 20 years in the corporate world before joining Rutgers in 1988. His last corporate position was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Devro, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. 
 
 
Featured Speakers
Friday, February 4, 2011
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Island Ballroom
 
Topic: Legislative Update
 
 
 

Speaker: Carol Graves Holladay

 
Carol Holladay has served the higher education community for 17 years prior to joining Hurt, Norton & Associates in 2003. She has been both an administrator and adjunct faculty member on college and university campuses as well as having been involved in the higher education association community in Washington, D.C. At Hurt Norton, she has specialized in appropriations issues, higher education public policy, and assistance to city and county governments.
 
Ms. Holladay has served the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators as Director of Educational Programs and Public Policy. In this role, she developed and marketed educational strategies, goals and programs of the association, worked with the association leadership to craft public policy agenda and monitored legislation and legal trends affecting higher education. She facilitated the development of the Consortium for Government Relations on Student Affairs, a consortium of non-profit associations to create more visibility for non-profit education associations on Capitol Hill.

 

Ms. Holladay previously worked at The Catholic University of America, Emory University, and The University of Alabama in administrative roles in student affairs and services. She has served as a liaison to faculty committees, university task forces, commissions and grant programs. Ms. Holladay served as adjunct faculty at the University of Alabama and The Catholic University of America, teaching developmental enrichment courses. She has presented extensively across the country to students and at professional conferences on leadership development, initiating and managing change, student civic engagement and volunteering, motivation and the impact of legislation on student affairs in higher education. She received her B.A. degree in Marketing and Advertising from Middle Tennessee State University and a Masters in Education Administration and Policy from Central Missouri State University.
 
 
 

Speaker: John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D.
In August 2008, John Wesley Lowery joined the faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania as an Associate Professor in the Department of Student Affairs in Higher Education. He teaches courses on the history of higher education and student affairs, assessment and evaluation, and legal issues in student affairs. He previously served on the faculty at the Oklahoma State University and University of South Carolina. In addition to teaching, he coordinated graduate preparation programs at both those universities. He earned his doctorate at Bowling Green State University in Higher Education Administration. He previously held administrative positions at Adrian College and Washington University in St. Louis.
 
John is actively involved in numerous professional associations including ACPA, ASCA, and NASPA. John has a Masters degree in student personnel services from the University of South Carolina and an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Religious Studies. He is a frequent speaker and author on topics related to student affairs and higher education, particularly legislative issues and judicial affairs on which he is widely regarding as a leading expert. Over his career, John has been honored by several professional organizations. In 2007, he was recognized by the Higher Education Administration doctoral program at Bowling Green State University as the alumnus of year in “recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession through teaching, research, and service.” At the 2007 Association for Student Judicial Affairs Conference, he received the D. Parker Young Award for “outstanding ongoing scholarly research contributions to the fields of higher education and student judicial affairs.” At the American College Personnel Association’s 2005 meeting, he received the Tracy R. Teele Memorial Award from the Commission on Campus Judicial Affairs and Legal Issues for “outstanding contributions to the area of judicial affairs and legal issues.” He is the co-author of the updated model code with Ed Stoner published in 2004. For more information, please visit www.johnwesleylowery.com.
 
 
Featured Speakers
Saturday, February 5, 2011
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Island Ballroom
 
Topic: Case Law Review
 
 
 
Speaker: Bill Fischer, JD
 

Bill Fischer currently serves as Interim Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students at the University of Dayton.  He joined the University of Dayton in November 2008 as Associate Vice President for Student Development, where his responsibilities included providing leadership and oversight to the Office of Community Standards and Civility, Department of Residence Life and Public Safety Division.  His duties also include student life policy review and crisis management.  Bill has approximately 14 years of experience in higher education with specialty focus on student conduct and conflict resolution systems, crisis management, and law/policy issues in student affairs.  He has previously held adjunct faculty appointments at Northeastern and Suffolk University teaching on the topic of law and higher education. 

 

Prior to his tenure in higher education, Bill was engaged in the full time practice of law for approximately ten years.  He was a principal in the law firm of Matthews, White & Fischer in New Jersey.  Bill is an active member of the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA), having served on its Board of Directors in various capacities for approximately seven years.  He is a Past President of the Association.  Bill earned his B.A. degree from Villanova University and his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law.
 
 
 
Speaker: W. Scott Lewis, JD
 
W. Scott Lewis, JD is a partner with the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM) and serves as Associate General Counsel for Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. He has been interviewed and/or featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsweek, NPR, NBC, USA Today, Today’s Campus, as well as other publications and sources.

He serves as an author and editor in a number of areas including legal issues in higher education, campus safety and student development, campus conduct board training, and other higher education issues. His recent works include The Faculty Mentor Series, The Perfect Storm: Understanding and Dealing with the New “Millennial” Student, Campus Safety 101, The Returning Veterans and "College and University Liability for Violent Campus Attacks" (Journal of College and University Law, April 2008).

He completed his undergraduate work in Psychology and his graduate work in Higher Education Administration at Texas A&M University and received his Law degree and mediation training from the University of Houston.
 
 

Speaker: Saundra K. “Saunie” Schuster, Esq.

 

Saunie Schuster is a Partner with the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM), a national risk management legal consulting firm, and Managing Partner of Schuster & Clifford, LLP, a law practice devoted exclusively to education law. Ms Schuster is a recognized expert in preventive law for education, notably in the fields of Sexual Misconduct and Harassment, First Amendment and Campus Access, Risk Management and Liability Issues, Behavior Intervention and Threat Assessment; Student Discipline and Campus Conduct, Intellectual Property and Employment Issues. Her higher education legal experience includes serving as the General Counsel for Sinclair Community College; as Senior Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio, representing public colleges and universities; and as the Associate General Counsel for the University of Toledo.  

 

In addition to her legal work in higher education, Ms. Schuster has over twenty years experience in college administration and teaching. Prior to practicing law, she was the Associate Dean of Students at The Ohio State University and served as a faculty member at The Ohio State University, Miami University and Columbus State Community College and created the Developmental Education Program for Miami University. She has presented extensively on legal issues in higher education, and provides consultation on many legal issues to colleges and universities throughout the country. She has provided assistance with policy review and development of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct for students and employees for many institutions across the country, including a recent invitation by the Iowa Board of Regents to develop student sexual misconduct policies for all the State of Iowa higher education institutions. Ms. Schuster is co-author of “The First Amendment: A Guide for College Administrators”, and contributing author to “Campus Conduct Practice”.

 

Ms. Schuster is a former President of the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA, formerly ASJA), and held many board positions in that organization. She is a long time member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and served on the conference planning committee. Ms. Schuster is on the Board of Advisors for the Report on Campus Safety and Student Development, published by the Civic Research Institute. She also serves on several Boards of Directors in her community. Ms. Schuster holds Masters degrees in counseling and higher education administration from Miami University, completed her coursework for her Ph.D. in Organizational Development at Ohio State University, and was awarded her juris doctorate degree from the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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