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Business Wire
a day ago
- Business
- Business Wire
University of Phoenix Admissions Leadership Appointed Chair of PESC Board
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- University of Phoenix is pleased to share that Monterey Sims, director, Admissions and Evaluation, has been appointed as Chair for Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council Board of Directors for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Sims, who has served on the Board for five years, brings over three decades of experience and leadership in higher education and has been an active member of PESC since 2005. 'I'm honored to serve as Chair of PESC and continue advancing our mission to improve data standards and interoperability in education,' states Sims. 'I look forward to working with our dedicated board, members, and partners to promote innovation and excellence across the sector.' PESC is a non-profit, community-based organization that develops and promotes open data standards to improve digital interoperability across the education sector. By fostering collaboration among institutions, government agencies, and technology providers, PESC helps streamline data exchange and enhance student success. As Chair, Sims will lead the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, guiding the organization's strategic direction and ensuring alignment with its mission. She will also serve as PESC's primary spokesperson and represent the organization in key public and professional forums. Additionally, she will serve as an ex-officio member of all PESC committees, collaborate with staff to implement board resolutions and strategic initiatives, and support relationship building with partner organizations and stakeholders. 'Monterey's appointment as Chair of PESC is a reflection of her deep expertise and long-standing commitment to improving how institutions exchange and manage student data,' said Devin Andrews, vice president, Admissions and Evaluation at University of Phoenix. 'Her leadership has been instrumental in advancing operational efficiencies that support student mobility, and I'm confident she will bring the same vision and dedication to this important role.' As a Director of Admissions and Evaluation at University of Phoenix, Sims is directly responsible for the Office of Admissions Document Processing division which includes overseeing the acquisition and processing of admission documents and transcripts from prior attended institutions for University applicants. Integral to the University's established credit mobility culture, Sims continually seeks out operational efficiencies and promotes interoperability and student mobility as well as electronic transcript partnerships to improve processes and remove barriers for students. During 30+ years at the University she has led a variety of process improvement initiatives including implementation of Electronic Transcript Exchange (ETX) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Sims has also served as Vice Chair on the PESC Board of Directors. She serves on the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Standardization of Postsecondary Education Record Electronic Data Exchange (SPEEDE) Committee and AACRAO Technical Advisory Committee as well as the eTrans California Steering Committee, 1EdTech Digital Credentials Project Group and is a member of the Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (PACRAO). Sims co-authored the article 'Electronic Transcripts 2021: The Landscape and Future of Electronic Document Exchange' published in the AACRAO quarterly journal, College & University. About University of Phoenix University of Phoenix innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant courses, interactive learning, skills-mapped curriculum for our bachelor's and master's degree programs and a Career Services for Life® commitment help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives. For more information, visit About PESC Since 1997, PESC Members have come together to identify, research, develop and promote the adoption of interoperable data standards and methods across the postsecondary education P20W ecosystem. Their work includes the development and reuse of common data schemas leveraging XML, EDI, JSON and JSON-LD. PESC advocates for the widespread adoption of automated connections that enhance data efficiency. These connections ensure secure and repeatable interchange across specialized administrative, financial, and academic domains. For more information, please visit
Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
University of Phoenix Leader Co-Directs National Summit on Learning Mobility, Transfer Credit and Technology
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- University of Phoenix is proud to recognize Dr. Marc Booker, Vice Provost for Strategy, for his leadership as co-director of the AACRAO Technology & Transfer 2025: A Learning Mobility Summit, which concluded this week in Arlington, Virginia. The summit marked a return to in-person collaboration and convened national leaders in higher education to explore innovative solutions that advance learning mobility, transfer pathways, and technology-driven student support. 'This summit was an important opportunity in taking some first steps to reimagine how we support learners through all aspects of their academic experience in a modern, mobile, and accessible society,' said Dr. Booker. 'By transforming our perspective from looking at learners through rigid classifications like traditional vs. transfer students and expanding our horizons to see students through a whole-person paradigm that recognizes everything learners bring to the table we will be able to solve for the credential attainment gap and clearly articulate the value that higher education brings to us.' AACRAO is a non-profit, voluntary, professional association committed to making higher education more responsive to learner needs. With nearly 14,000 members representing approximately 2,300 institutions in over 40 countries, AACRAO provides advocacy, research, and policy-based guidance and training to support higher education professionals in smoothing the path for learners at every stage of their journey. As part of the summit's programming, Booker also joined a featured panel session titled 'Learning Mobility: Postsecondary Roles, Barriers, and Opportunities.' This dynamic, high-level conversation explored the role postsecondary education plays in removing barriers and creating opportunities for learners, earners, and employers. Using the learning and employment record (LER) Principles and a Learning Mobility Framework as touchpoints, panelists spotlighted institutions with innovative credential pathways connected to employment and outlined broad technical assistance needed to support this work at scale. The 2025 summit built on momentum from last year's virtual event, where Booker served as advisory summit co-lead. This year's return to an in-person format enabled deeper collaboration, networking, and real-time exchange of ideas among practitioners, technologists, and EdTech innovators, and set the tone for the future transformation of the event as it further embraces the tenets of learning mobility. Widely recognized as an expert in transfer credit and Credit for Prior Learning (CPL), Booker previously served as vice president of Admissions and Evaluation at University of Phoenix; during his tenure, his office received three Showcase in Excellence Awards from the Southwest Alliance for Excellence for processes related to admissions application, transcript, and prior learning assessment processes. As Vice Provost for Strategy at the University of Phoenix, Booker oversees critical path academic initiatives to improve the student experience, such as learning platform implementations, curricular enhancements, and developing empathetic solutions to drive improved student outcomes through data. He is the recipient of the 2024 UPCEA Operational Excellence Award, 2024 AACRAO Thomas A. Bilger Award, and in 2023 was part of a leadership team named winners of the Catalyst Award for Teaching & Learning. In 2020, Booker received a Hall of Fame recognition from Blackboard. University of Phoenix innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant courses, interactive learning, skills-mapped curriculum for our bachelor's and master's degree programs and a Career Services for Life® commitment help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives.
Business Wire
17-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
University of Phoenix Leader Transfer Credit Insights Published by AACRAO
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- University of Phoenix is pleased to share that Devin Andrews, MBA, vice president, Admissions and Evaluation, contributed online course content on transfer credit and establishing a credit mobility culture in higher education published by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO). The course, 'Creating a Credit Mobility Culture: Three Small Ways to Create Momentum,' launched in April as part of a Learning Mobility & Credit for Prior Learning package, available to the higher education community and members of AACRAO. 'University of Phoenix is dedicated to fostering student success at every stage of the academic journey, especially as it relates to our registrar and admissions related services,' states Marc Booker, Ph.D., Vice Provost of Strategy at University of Phoenix. 'Engaging with the AACRAO community to share best practices on academic transfer credit, digital credentials, credit for prior learning, and skills-based learning helps to advance the principles of learning mobility and support AACRAO's signature initiative in this space.' Andrews' course content was first presented at the 2024 AACRAO Technology and Transfer Virtual Summit and with positive feedback from attendees, was selected as a standout to be included in the learning package. Her insights included credit mobility guidance on improving transfer credit related policies, identifying focused opportunities for credit for prior learning, and making the process highly visible and easily digestible. AACRAO is a non-profit, voluntary, professional association working to make higher education more responsive to learners. With a membership of more than 18,000 higher education professionals at approximately 2,300 institutions in more than 40 countries, collectively representing over 16.5 million enrolled learners, the association provides advocacy, research, and policy-based guidance and training to higher education professionals to smooth the path for learners at every stage of their journey. Based on her experience building the transfer credit experience at the University, Andrews co-authored a related white paper in 2023, which informed the presentation and insights of the course, and wrote an article published in The Evolllution. At the 2025 AACRAO Annual Meeting, Andrews co-led two roundtable discussions titled 'Enhancing Student Success through Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) and Credit for Prior Learning (CPL),' and 'Navigating Non-Traditional Credit Opportunities with Alternative Credit Providers,' which examined practical strategies for implementing and improving PLA and CPL programs and resources and tools to support use of non-traditional credit opportunities, respectively. She also serves as the chairperson for AACRAO's Prior Learning Assessment and Alternative Credit and Credentials professional activities committee. Learn more here about University of Phoenix transfer credit opportunities created as part of its credit mobility culture. University of Phoenix innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant courses, interactive learning, skills-mapped curriculum for our bachelor's and master's degree programs and a Career Services for Life® commitment help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives.
Business Wire
16-07-2025
- General
- Business Wire
University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies Releases White Paper on Rural Schooling Characteristics
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies has released a new white paper, 'The G.R.O.W. Generating Rural Opportunities in the Workforce™ Report and Probing the Unique Characteristics of Rural Schooling: A Narrative Inquiry,' by James Lane, Ed.D., senior research fellow with the University's Center for Educational and Instructional Technology Research (CEITR). In the paper, the author analyzes G.R.O.W. Generating Rural Opportunities in the Workforce™ report findings to contextual a narrative study of significant experiences and insights of current and retired educators who teach or have taught within small rural distant schools, in order to better understand characteristics that make these schools unique fabrics within the American educational tapestry. 'The narrative inquiry revealed shared characteristics in rural areas even though the participants were geographically disparate,' Lane shares. 'The findings may provide value to those leading rural schools as well as those who train and prepare rural educators, and who shape public policies impacting those communities.' Applying an analytical mode of narrative inquiry, Lane delves into experiences of rural educators and identifies similar characteristics including care, community and family, as well as limited college and career preparation, with contributors of geographic isolation and poverty. The author offers context for the narrative inquiry through related data findings from the G.R.O.W. report, which revealed distinctions between rural and urban workforce, their demographic makeup, and their career perspectives. Lane is a faculty member in the College of Doctoral Studies ACCESS program, facilitating doctoral courses and serving dissertation committees as panel validator, and has worked with University of Phoenix since 2006 in various roles. He served as a public school educator for 37 years as an English teacher, district language arts supervisor, and middle school assistant principal and principal. Lane earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership at University of South Florida, where he also completed a master's in Educational Leadership, a master of arts in English, and a bachelor's degree in English-Mass Communications Education. The full white paper is available on the University of Phoenix Career Institute® webpage or as a direct link here. About University of Phoenix University of Phoenix innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant courses, interactive learning, skills-mapped curriculum for our bachelor's and master's degree programs and a Career Services for Life® commitment help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives. For more information, visit About the College of Doctoral Studies University of Phoenix's College of Doctoral Studies focuses on today's challenging business and organizational needs, from addressing critical social issues to developing solutions to accelerate community building and industry growth. The College's research program is built around the Scholar, Practitioner, Leader Model which puts students in the center of the Doctoral Education Ecosystem® with experts, resources and tools to help prepare them to be a leader in their organization, industry and community. Through this program, students and researchers work with organizations to conduct research that can be applied in the workplace in real time.
Business Wire
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
University of Phoenix Leaders to Present at Anthology Together 2025
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- University of Phoenix announced that several key leaders will present at the 2025 Anthology Together conference, taking place July 14–16 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The annual global event brings together educators and institutions to explore innovations in education technology and student success. University of Phoenix presenters include Erin Amsden, group product manager; Dr. Marc Booker, vice provost of strategy; Kelly Hermann, vice president of Accessibility and Student Affairs; Mary Elizabeth Smith, director of learning innovation strategy; and Shannon Wilson, vice president of IT. Their sessions will address topics such as artificial intelligence, accessibility, student engagement and emotional intelligence in technology leadership. 'University of Phoenix is proud to engage with the Anthology Together community to share how we approach innovation with intentionality,' states Dr. Booker. 'Events like this allow us to connect with peers to exchange ideas and demonstrate strategies that keep University of Phoenix at the forefront of meeting the evolving needs of today's learners. By being thought leaders in this space, we're driving the development of solutions that remove barriers and deliver even greater value to students.' University of Phoenix sessions at the conference include: 'The Ultimate TechEQ Strategy' Tuesday, July 15, 11–11:45 a.m. PT | Track: DevCon | Location: Cobalt 8 (Level 4) Presenter: Shannon Wilson A session on applying emotional intelligence strategies to technology leadership to foster innovation, collaboration and trust in digital and in-person environments. 'The Role of AI in Streamlining Enrollment: Best Practices and Opportunities for the Future' Tuesday, July 15, 11–11:45 a.m. PT | Track: Recruitment, Admissions, and Enrollment | Location: Topaz 5+6 (Level 3) Co-presenter: Marc Booker A panel discussion on establishing sustainable paths in enrollment and admissions processes using AI. 'AI Isn't Always the Answer' Tuesday, July 15, 1:15–2 p.m. PT | Track: Student Engagement, Retention and Support | Location: Cobalt 7 (Level 4) Presenters: Shannon Wilson, Erin Amsden, Marc Booker A discussion on how a digital-first university approaches technology and AI with intentionality, emphasizing thoughtful problem-solving over quick fixes. 'Navigating the Evolving Accessibility Landscape: Human-Centered Strategies for Institutional Success' Tuesday, July 15, 4–4:45 p.m. PT | Track: Accessibility and Inclusion | Location: Cobalt 3+4 (Level 4) Co-presenter: Kelly Hermann A session focused on strategies for addressing regulatory challenges, leveraging institutional resources, and fostering cross-campus collaboration—all while keeping the human-centric elements of accessibility at the forefront. 'Boosting Student Engagement with AI: A Hands-on Workshop' Wednesday, July 16, 3–3:45 p.m. PT | Track: Teaching and Learning | Location: Cobalt 7 (Level 4) Co-Presenter: Mary Elizabeth Smith An interactive workshop offering practical applications of AI to enhance student engagement, encourage innovation and minimize risk. In addition to presenting at the event, Hermann has been tapped to serve on Anthology's Accessibility Advisory Council, a group dedicated to fostering accessible learning environments. In this role, Hermann will help the council in its mission to build community, shape the future of EdTech, and broaden impact through webinars, whitepapers, and research. Amsden, Booker, Hermann, Smith, and Wilson are part of a team of thought leaders and leadership team members, frequently invited to share their expertise at prestigious national conferences and events. In 2025, University leaders participated in the ASU + GSV Summit, 1EdTech Learning Impact Conference, SXSW EDU Conference, and PESC Data Summit. These engagements underscore the University's commitment to innovation and thought leadership in higher education, providing valuable insights and fostering collaborations that drive the future of learning. . University of Phoenix innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant courses, interactive learning, skills-mapped curriculum for our bachelor's and master's degree programs and a Career Services for Life® commitment help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives.
