Karen Gross
Strategies for How to Improve Campus Culture -- whether it is toxic or just in need of reshaping
@KarenGrossEdu
Karen Gross
Independent Consultant
Educational View: Strategies for How to Improve Campus Culture -- whether it is toxic or just in need of reshaping
BIO: For 8 plus years, I was President of Southern Vermont College, a small, private, affordable, four-year college founded in 1926 and located in Bennington, VT. The College offers a career-launching education with a liberal arts core. The College enrolls many first generation, low-income students and is dedicated to vulnerable student success.
From Jan. 2012 – 2013, I served as Senior Policy Advisor to the US Department of Education in Washington, DC. In that capacity, I was the Department's representative on the interagency task force charged with redesigning the transition assistance program for returning service members and their families, working closely with the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Labor.
Prior to becoming a college president, I was a tenured law professor for two plus decades. My academic areas of expertise include consumer finance, over-indebtedness, bankruptcy and community economic development. I served and continue to serve as a consultant to governmental and non-profit/for profit organizations; prior and subsequent to entering into government service, was on various non-profit boards. With a strong interest in athletics, I chaired the NECC and was on the NCAA DIII President’s Advisory Council.
I speak and write frequently about education for various audiences and in a wide array of publications including HuffPost, WPo, Hechinger Report, National Journal, InsideHigherEd and the Chronicle of Higher Education. My writing and speaking has been and continues to be focused on college and career readiness as well as leadership development within the academy.
Raised in New England, I am a cum laude graduate of Smith College where I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law, having spent my final year of law school at the University of Chicago. Prior to entering legal academia, I taught at the high school and college levels and practiced law in Chicago and New York.
Independent Consultant
Educational View: Strategies for How to Improve Campus Culture -- whether it is toxic or just in need of reshaping
BIO: For 8 plus years, I was President of Southern Vermont College, a small, private, affordable, four-year college founded in 1926 and located in Bennington, VT. The College offers a career-launching education with a liberal arts core. The College enrolls many first generation, low-income students and is dedicated to vulnerable student success.
From Jan. 2012 – 2013, I served as Senior Policy Advisor to the US Department of Education in Washington, DC. In that capacity, I was the Department's representative on the interagency task force charged with redesigning the transition assistance program for returning service members and their families, working closely with the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Labor.
Prior to becoming a college president, I was a tenured law professor for two plus decades. My academic areas of expertise include consumer finance, over-indebtedness, bankruptcy and community economic development. I served and continue to serve as a consultant to governmental and non-profit/for profit organizations; prior and subsequent to entering into government service, was on various non-profit boards. With a strong interest in athletics, I chaired the NECC and was on the NCAA DIII President’s Advisory Council.
I speak and write frequently about education for various audiences and in a wide array of publications including HuffPost, WPo, Hechinger Report, National Journal, InsideHigherEd and the Chronicle of Higher Education. My writing and speaking has been and continues to be focused on college and career readiness as well as leadership development within the academy.
Raised in New England, I am a cum laude graduate of Smith College where I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law, having spent my final year of law school at the University of Chicago. Prior to entering legal academia, I taught at the high school and college levels and practiced law in Chicago and New York.