Dr. Jo Allen will be presenting “Integrating Planning, Assessment, Accreditation, and Advancement with Limited Resources.” Dr. Allen is currently the President of Meredith College. Prior to her Presidency position at Meredith, she served as the Senior Vice President and Provost at Widener University. As an administrator she has been active in streamlining planning, assessment and accreditation processes and in creating faculty development services. She is a former ACE fellow and a published author on Technical and Professional Communications and Planning Pervasive Relevance. Her works in progress include a book on managing assessment, a book on transforming an institution with limited resources and an article on articulating program strengths.

Dr. Joan Prince will be presenting “Innovative Strategies for Working with Governance.”  Dr. Prince is the Vice Chancellor for Partnerships and Innovations at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. At her university she is responsible for external relations which include local, regional and national partnerships, and strategic decision making as it affects internal and external partners. She is also known as a “governance geek” and has served as governance chair for five national boards. Dr. Prince is a current ACE Fellow in the North Carolina Systems Office.

Dr. Jorge Atiles will be presenting “Making a Difference in Higher Education.” He is an Associate Dean at Oklahoma State University. Prior to going to Oklahoma, Dr.  Atiles served as the Associate Dean for Outreach and Extension for the College of FCS at the University of Georgia. Dr. Atiles uses local needs and national trends to develop, implement and evaluate programs. He has been a co-author for book chapters and numerous journal articles. Dr. Atiles recently co-authored an article on Sustaining FCS in Higher Education for the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Carolina Crocoll will be presenting “Resources and Partnership Opportunities for Delivering FCS Programs.” She  is responsible for providing national leadership for and supervision of critical tasks involving Family and Consumer Sciences staff, program development and collaboration; identifying mission-relevant issues requiring Federal attention and support; conceiving and executing Family and Consumer Sciences programs to respond to existing or emerging opportunities, priorities, and issues; evaluating the impacts of these programs.  She is the Division Director of Family and Consumer Sciences, Institute of Youth, Family and Community for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Dr. Deborah Tippett, professor and head of the Department of Human Environmental Sciences at Meredith College, has been on the Meredith faculty since 1987. She has been a national key note speaker on working with millennial students and will be presenting “Innovative Strategies for Working with Millenial Students” for CAFCS. Dr. Tippett is the co-author of Teen Life: Living, Learning and Caring, which was released in the sixth edition. She is national officer with Kappa Omicron Nu Honors Society and has been a national officer with the Council of Administrators in Family and Consumer Sciences, the Family and Consumer Sciences Education Association and a past governing board member of NC-Association for the Education of Young Children. Dr. Tippett has received awards such as Regional Teacher of the Year and the Meredith College President’s Award for Excellence.