2020 Alliance Annual Webinars

Charlene S. Gibson

College of Southern Nevada

Charlene S. Gibson, co-creator and producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary No Greater Odds, is an award-winning tenured communication professor and the faculty initiatives coordinator at the College of Southern Nevada. Additionally, she is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant, providing keynotes, professional development, and support that focuses on the principles and practices of No Greater Odds and innovative, dynamic, and engaging teaching practices. Gibson received her B.A. and M.A. in communication studies from Baylor University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in higher education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, while continuing to speak and travel around the country.

Crystine Miller

Montana University System

Crystine Miller is the director of student affairs and student engagement for the Montana University System (MUS). She leads MUS student success efforts such as student mental health and wellness, open educational resources, and Montana Project 10, a retention and completion pilot project focused on narrowing achievement gaps. Previously, Miller taught writing and literature and led research efforts for an international faculty exchange program designed to develop curriculum and research capacity for undergraduate and graduate English programs. Miller received a B.A. in English from Carroll College and an M.A. in English from the University of Oregon.

Liza Tupa

Director of Education and Research, Behavioral Health Program

303.541.0224ltupa@wiche.edu

Liza Tupa is the director of education and research for WICHE’s Behavioral Health Program. A licensed clinical psychologist, her career has focused on public behavioral health service delivery. She has expertise in behavioral health service delivery systems in Colorado and other western states, program evaluation, behavioral health policy, management and leadership, and a variety of clinical issues. She has worked in public behavioral health systems, including a community mental health center, Department of Corrections, and a state psychiatric institute. Previously, Tupa served as deputy director of Colorado’s Office of Behavioral Health, providing leadership in community behavioral health programming and public services planning, procurement, and regulation. Her graduate training had a dual focus on clinical work and research, with research specialization in program and assessment tool evaluation. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in public psychology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, studying public mental health service delivery and mental health case law. Her experience includes numerous clinical trainings, teaching college-level psychology, and presentations in the areas of behavioral health systems, communication skills training and assessment, critical incident stress debriefings, and recovery-focused mental health service delivery.

Ryan Craig

University Ventures

Ryan Craig is a founding managing director of University Ventures. Prior to University Ventures, Craig founded and built Wellspring, the largest and leading organization providing treatment programs for overweight and obese children, adolescents and young adults. Craig headed the education & training sector at Warburg Pincus from 2001 – 2004 where he was the founding director of Bridgepoint Education, one of the largest online universities in the U.S. He received bachelor’s degrees in literature and economics summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and his law degree from the Yale Law School. He is on the advisory board of UCLA Extension. Craig is the author of College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education as well as many articles published in a range of higher education, technology and general interest publications.

Peter Quigley

University of Hawaii Community Colleges

quigleyp@hawaii.edu

Peter Quigley has been the University of Hawai’i System Community Colleges’ associate vice president for academic affairs for the last 10 years, and is the co-chair of the Interstate Passport® Program. As associate vice president, he was responsible for academic program planning, evaluation and assessment; course and program articulation; regional accreditation; federal higher education and workforce development issues, and collaboration with external agencies. He has also served as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and chancellor at Leeward Community College. Quigley has recently taken up his full tenured professor position at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. His latest book is “The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts.”

Amy Morrison

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

Amy Morrison is Lake Washington Institute of Technology’s (LWTech) ninth president. During her tenure at LWTech, Morrison has seen the college through post-Great Recession budgetary challenges, while growing college programs and partnerships. In 2019 LWTech was named one of the Top 150 community colleges by the Aspen Institute, in part because of the college’s substantive completion efforts. Morrison is extensively involved in local, regional, and statewide initiatives including One Redmond, Cascadia Innovation Corridor, Washington Technology Industry Association, and serving as a Commissioner for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). She received her doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2013 as part of the National Community College Leadership Cohort. She received her masters of public administration at The Evergreen State College, and her undergraduate degree at Mills College.

Carli Schiffner

Alliance Executive Committee, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Carli Schiffner serves as the deputy executive director of education at the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. She is a dedicated leader in higher education, with over fifteen years of progressive senior leadership experience in positions including interim university president, university provost, vice president for instruction, and dean of arts and sciences. Schiffner values servant leadership, collaboration, quality improvement, focusing on the whole student, an entrepreneurial spirit, equity, hard work, and a sense of humor. She has a B.A. in history and political science from Gonzaga University; a M.A. in cultural and intellectual history from Drew University; and a Ph.D. in American women’s history from Washington State University.