Speaking Engagements:

• Texas Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators (10/2011)
• Indiana Student Affairs Association (10/2011)
• City University of New York professional development (10/2011)
• Northern Illinois University professional development (7/2011)
• Region III Summer Symposium (6/2011)
• Gettysburg College commencement address (5/2011)
• Atlanta University Center Consortium professional development (5/2011)
• Achieving Student Learning Outcomes: The Challenge of Educating the New Diversity of Students
  Chet E. Peters Lecture Series, Kansas State University (4/2011)
• NCAA Well Being Summit (4/2011)
• University of Illinois professional development (4/2011)
• The World of the Conduct Officer
  ASCA Annual Conference (2/2011)
• AAC&U Annual Meeting (1/2011)
• A New Generation of Veterans – What Colleges and Universities Don't Know Can Hurt
  Veterans in Higher Education: Listening, Responding and Changing for Success (9/2010)
• What’s War Got to Do With It? A Conversation About Student Veterans
  Region III Summer Symposium (6/2010)
• Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. John L. Blackburn
  Blackburn Memorial (4/2010)
  
• NACA 50th Anniversary Conference (2/2010)
• Dalton Institute on College Student Values (2/2010)
• The Missing Pieces of the Assessment Puzzle: The NASPA Perspective
  IUPUI Assessment Institute (10/2009)
• Inauspicious Beginnings on the Paths to Leadership
  Women Administrators in Higher Education (9/2009)
• Balancing Institutional Needs with Student Needs
  NACAC 2001 National Conference (8/2009)
• Middle East, North Africa Community College Forum (6/2009)
• The Changing Face of Our Campuses
  Best Practices for Adult Learners Conference (5/2009)
  
• Ask Not What the Impact of the New Administration Will be on Higher Education—but What will the Impact of Higher Education be on Students and the Nation
  Western Regional Conference (11/2008)
  
• Innovative Partnerships for Student Learning Conference (8/2008)
• Travels with Gwen – Lessons to Consider for Student Success
  Northampton Community College Convocation (8/2008)
• Student Development at the Small College (1/2008)

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NASPA Executive Director Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy  

An accomplished speaker, leader, and educator, Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy has been executive director of NASPA since 1995. In her capacity as a national advocate for students and the primary spokesperson for student affairs administrators and practitioners, she draws on more than 30 years of experience in higher education.

Before joining NASPA, Dr. Dungy was associate director of the Curriculum and Faculty Development Network and coordinator of the National Diversity Network at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Previously, she was a senior administrator at the County College of Morris (NJ), Montgomery College (MD), and Catonsville Community College (MD), and a counseling faculty member at St. Louis Community College (MO).

Dr. Dungy represents NASPA in national forums such as the Washington Higher Education Secretariat, which includes the leaders of approximately 50 higher education associations. Dr. Dungy currently chairs the Secretariat working group on persistence and completion. While at NASPA, she has pursued a number of initiatives designed to enhance the association's role in public policy, research, professional development, and student learning and assessment, with a particular interest in the increasing veteran student population. Dr. Dungy is called on frequently to speak on a wide range of topics at conferences nationally and internationally.

In the international arena, Dr. Dungy has increased alliances and collaborations between NASPA and associations and non-profit groups in other nations. At the behest of the Department of Education and the State Department, she traveled to Jordan in order to represent student affairs and moderate a panel addressing community colleges in the Middle East and North Africa. She also served as a consultant to the Center for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa in its work to facilitate the establishment of a national association for student services professionals in that country. She spent several months in Mexico creating strategic professional relationships and exploring how NASPA can learn from international communities and provide unique value to the lives of students abroad. After Mexico, she represented US student affairs at the 50th anniversary of the National Academy of Education Administration in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.

Dr. Dungy has served as a member of the board of directors of HEADS UP – A University Neighborhood Initiative in Washington, DC, the Association Mutual Health Insurance Company, Berkeley College-New York and New Jersey, the American Association of University Women's Legal Advocacy Fund, the AAUW Educational Foundation, the Morris Shelter and Morris Museum, and as a trustee of the California Institute of Integral Studies and Gettysburg College.

Dr. Dungy is the author of numerous articles in higher education books, journals, and magazines. Most recently, she edited Exceptional Senior Student Affairs Administrators' Leadership: Strategies and Competencies for Success, along with Shannon Ellis. She also initiated the oft-cited Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience and was a contributing author of Learning Reconsidered II: A Practical Guide to Implementing a Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience. She consults regularly for colleges, universities, corporations, and government agencies on strategic planning and leadership and has given frequent presentations at national association meetings, institutes, conferences, and professional development events.

A licensed psychologist and a nationally certified professional counselor and career counselor, Dr. Dungy earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Eastern Illinois University, a M.A. degree from Drew University in New Jersey, and a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.