Experience

• Neumann University

  Director of Student Care and Transitions

  • Serves as the non-clinical case manager for at-risk students, as well as provides reports, data, and other assessments.
  • Provides outreach to students and other members of the campus community to proactively address areas of needed development related to student success, retention, and transitions, including collaboration with campus partners to develop, implement, and assess the related programming.
  • Oversees and coordinates the CARE Team, which includes facilitating and creating agendas for weekly meetings, case management for at-risk students and connecting them with the proper resources, internally and externally, maintaining protocols and priorities for our early alert system among the team, and ensuring an early, intervention approach.
  • Manages and oversees the Parent and Family Experience portal.
  • Creates and sustains programming and campus traditions to celebrate milestone experiences in a student’s undergraduate and graduate academic career.
  • Develops and manages transfer student transitions through engagement activities, such as transfer orientation and on-going support programming.
  • Designs and implements programming for First Generation students and provide on-going support to students and parents/families.
  • Assumes “on-call” responsibilities in a scheduled, duty rotation to include on-campus response to incidents and emergency response.
  • Maintains a high level of visibility on campus and cultivates strong connections and collaboration with students, faculty, and administrators.
  

• Neumann University

  Director of Student Success

  • Manage overall student retention programs and initiatives ensuring that barriers to student retention, persistence and graduation are aggressively addressed
  • Manage individual student retention strategies, such as advising on academic persistence, faculty follow-up, peer-mentoring programming, and referral and intervention in support of student success
  • Manage Retention Alert Team and Retention Alert; an early alert web-based case-management tool designed to help Neumann faculty, advisors, and coaches easily refer students or athletes in their classes, or on their teams, for additional support.
  • Prepare related reports and correspondence on retention data
  • Construct University Strategic Retention Plan
  • Supervise University effort in getting unregistered students registered
  • Collaborate with Institutional Research to oversee and report student retention and graduation rates
  • Work collaboratively with other University offices/units including Academic Affairs, Business Office, Financial Aid Office, Academic Resource Center, Advising Center, Health and Wellness Center, Athletics, and Student Engagement to develop and implement retention efforts and excellence of service to students
  • Act to assist student and parent inquiries with problem resolution and ensure prompt response and satisfaction
  • Plan, organize, and present programming in New Student Orientation, including parent information sessions
  • Demonstrate and inform faculty and advisors regarding retention support initiatives; including video and classroom
  • Assist and support all levels of Administration in achieving the University’s mission and strategic objectives by conveying an efficient approach to evaluation, mitigating, and monitoring risk management assessments
  • Responsible for hiring and training students for practicum, internship, peer-mentoring and work-study
  • Manage budget for Office of Student Success and Retention
  

• Neumann University

  Coordinator of Student Retention Services

  Manage overall student retention programs ensuring that barriers to student persistence and graduation are aggressively addressed
  
  Manage Retention Alert; an early alert web-based case-management tool designed to help Neumann faculty, advisors, and coaches easily refer students or athletes in their classes, or on their teams, for additional support.
  
  Prepare related reports and correspondence on retention data
  
  Supervise University effort in getting unregistered students registered
  
  Collaborate with Institutional Research to oversee and report student retention and graduation rates
  
  Participate in the First Year Experience Publication providing new students a positive and comprehensive program supporting student success and retention
  
  Plan, organize, and present programming in New Student Orientation, including parent information sessions
  
  Manage individual student retention strategies, such as counseling on academic tracking, advising, faculty follow-up, and referral and intervention in support of student success
  
  Work collaboratively with Academic Affairs to research and evaluate potential student transfers
  
  Co-Chair the Retention Council
  
  Chair the Retention Faculty Steering Committee
  
  Provide essential and supplementary information for Parent Website and newsletter
  
  Demonstrate and inform faculty and advisors regarding retention support initiatives; including video and classroom
  
  Collaborate with Financial Aid Office in conducting summer financial aid counseling appointments for new parents and students for financial assistance
  
  Assist and support all levels of Administration in achieving the University’s mission and strategic objectives by conveying an efficient approach to evaluation, mitigating, and monitoring risk management assessments
  
  Oversee distribution of Faculty Student Engagement Programming Grants
  
  Responsible for hiring and training of interns and work-study students
  
  Manage budget for Office of Student Retention

• Neumann University

  Adjunct Faculty

  Adjunct English Professor teaching Developmental English and Rhetoric Writing and Research, further challenging students’ techniques in writing, reading, critical thinking and reflection, researching, and documenting, from concept to completion. This general composition course emphasizes flexibility of response to a variety of writing contexts and conventions. Students research topics with opposing viewpoints and write various source-based arguments. Active note-taking processes and skills for formal writing that are foundational for communication and collaboration in academic and professional environments are emphasized
  
  Construct a syllabus with goals and objectives, research assignments, written assignments, designated readings, and discussions
  
  Facilitate live debates
  
  Create rubrics and other documents to support student success
  
  Committee Memberships
  • Retention Council
  • Academic Probation
  • Student Finance
  • First Year Registration
  • SPOKES (campus support and early prevention/intervention team)
  • Student Judicial Affairs
  • Noel-Levitz Retention Management System
  • Middle States Commission on Higher Education

• Neumann University

  Ombudsman/Student Advocate

  Investigated and disputed complaints on behalf of students, administration and faculty
  
  Provided support for students and parents on financial, academic, and personal/behavioral issues
  
  Advised financial planning and instruction regarding college expenses, FAFSA and scholarship deadlines and application
  
  Managed E2 Emergency Campus Alert System
  
  Developed new Parent Communication plan
  
  Developed new Freshman Connection program
  
  Served on Retention Steering Committee
  
  Appointed liaison to S.M.A.R.T. (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region for Tomorrow)
  
  Trained students, faculty and administration on T.I.P.S. (Training for Intervention Procedures) alcohol education
  
  Facilitated workshops for student leaders on campus
  
  Managed Retention Alert (Early-Alert and Intervention Tool to Identify and Assist At-Risk Students)
  
  Tutored TRIO students in writing, English 101 and English 102

• Supra Medical, Inc.

  Director of Public Relations and Training

  Trained Medical Community (personnel and patients) on technology
  
  Coordinated annual shareholder’s meeting
  
  Scheduled trade shows and similar events

• Topox of PA

  Owner, Medical Sales

  Sold and rented portable Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers to the medical and residential community
  
  Provided training and in-service to medical and residential community

• Coleen Nedbalski Designs, Inc.

  Interior Designer

  • Design for residential and commercial markets
  • Facilitate projects from beginning drawings/sketches/plans to the completed, furnished rooms
  • Consult with client on color, layout, flooring, tile, furniture, window treatments (hard and soft), fabric selections and accessories, including kitchen and bath
  • Collaborate with contractors on a daily basis
  • Facilitate installation and delivery
  • Design wall murals for residential and commercial markets
  • Design custom logos for commercial market
  • Follow up on customer satisfaction