Ms. Bowen has 19 years of fundraising, marketing and teaching experience in community colleges. During her 11 years at Chesapeake College, she organized the college's first development department and managed the first major gifts campaign. Before her fundraising career, she worked in publishing and marketing, was president of National Health publishing, and was publicity manager for the Johns Hopkins University Press. She has also taught literature and composition at various four-year and community colleges.

Mrs. Culp has been involved in fundraising and public relations/marketing for over 20 years. She has worked for a variety of organizations, including Clark County Public Library, Junior Achievement, and most recently, Clark State Community College (Ohio). She is a member, Regional Director, and frequent regional and national conference presenter for Council for Resource Development (CRD), and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

Dr. Ironfield has worked with numerous community colleges on projects related to long-range planning, organization and development capability, preparing grant proposals, marketing and public relations, and project evaluation. From 1981 through 1998, she served as the senior development officer at Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, Massachusetts. A long-time member of the Council for Resource Development (CRD), Dr. Ironfield has served on the board of directors for more than ten terms, and in 1997, received the CRD Lifetime Achievement Award.

Veldon Law has 29 years of experience working in community colleges, including nine years as a chief academic officer and nine years as a president. Much of his career has been spent in program/course development, improvement, and expansion, especially in conjunction with and responding to interests of business and industry. Dr. Law has extensive consulting experience, particularly in institutional effectiveness, student academic achievement, enrollment management, and marketing.

He has served at numerous institutions and organizations, including John Wood Community College (Quincy, IL) and Barton County Community College (Great Bend, Kansas). Among his many achievements while at JWCC were the development of a distance learning telecommunications classroom connected to six western Illinois community colleges, a university, and a regional graduate center; guiding the Business and Industry program to deliver more instruction and contract training; and participating in the completion of a capital campaign feasibility study. While at Barton County Community College, Dr. Law was instrumental in developing partnerships with in-state universities. He also developed two revenue-producing on-line colleges (BartONline and EduKan), which contributed to his significant grant experience and culminated in the receipt of over $6.5 million in federal, state, and private grants to support the college’s educational and service mission. He also initiated and implemented the college’s first capital campaign for $4 million.

In addition to his role in fund- and friend-raising in major gifts campaigns for two community colleges, Dr. Law has been a presenter and keynote speaker for numerous conferences, including the Executive Leadership Institute sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College and The State Association of Kansas Resource, Conservation & Development Councils. He’s also made presentations before a variety of colleges’ faculty, staff, and governing boards, as well as providing consulting expertise to an assortment of higher education and business and industry organizations.

Dr. Law has numerous publications to his credit, including the AACC Times article “Using a Computerized Approach to Instructional Assessment”, which he co-authored with Clements Group President Dr. Pend Armistead. His educational background includes degrees from Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, where he currently resides.

Mr. LeRoy holds a BS in Political Science from Siena College (Loudonville, NY), a MPA in Public Administration from Sage Graduate School (Albany, NY), and a Graduate Certificate in Fund Raising Management from the School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. He has over 25 years of executive-level experience working in the public and third sectors, and has also served in public office at the town and county levels for eight years. His involvement in the philanthropic arena includes more than a decade of service as a development officer at both Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) and Hudson Valley Community College (Troy, NY), and numerous volunteer leadership roles with not-for-profit organizations across NY’s Capital Region.

Mr. Little has more than 25 years of experience in telecommunications and related technology fields. He has been a leader in workforce development issues and initiatives in the western Massachusetts area. He serves as a trustee of the region’s Plan for Progress, as a member of the Workforce Committee of the Regional Technology Corporation, and has served as a board member and chairman of the Regional Education Business Alliance, a K-12 initiative. Mr. Little holds a BA degree from Colby College, Waterville, ME, and currently resides in Longmeadow, MA.

Ms. Littlefield is the Vice President of Institutional Advancement at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. She is responsible for all resource development activities and serves as the Executive Director of the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation. Ms. Littlefield has over 20 years of experience in institutional advancement at the community college and four-year university level. Additional experience includes strategic planning, board development, special fundraising campaigns, major gifts fundraising, grants, annual giving and legislative affairs.

Mr. Lyons has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit administration, including fundraising, community relations, and project management. Scott has served a broad spectrum of nonprofits, local and national, large and small. Working primarily in higher education, he has managed numerous campaigns, specializing in planning and major giving. He has also worked in banking and in the financial services industry as a licensed financial advisor.

Dr. O’Hara served as the president of Paducah Community College for 11 years. In 1993, he used the Clements Group methodology to raise over $13 million. As a result, in 1994, PCC was named the #1 fundraising 2-year college in the nation. Dr. O’Hara has developed powerful national models, which are presently transforming the quality and character of higher education. Among them are: The 4th Paradigm, a powerful model which produces effective leaders and The Communiversity, which teaches 2-year colleges how to lead and sustain region-wide economic development.

Dr. Sabatella has 34 years of experience working in public education, including 12 years as a teacher, 9 years as a building level administrator, and 13 years as a superintendent of schools. He also served as the educational consultant for the Juran Institute in the areas of strategic planning, quality improvement, quality control, and quality planning for K-12 education. Dr. Sabatella started the first educational foundation in New York state in 1983 and has been conducting grant writing seminars since 1987.

Dr. Selby joined the Clements Group in 1997 after completing an 8-year presidency at North Central Missouri College in Trenton, where both college enrollment and campus size doubled following capital gifts campaigns that totaled over $5.5 million. He has been a consultant in community college marketing and enrollment management for over 25 years and has been involved in major fund drives for over 20 years. His CG service includes leading the very successful major gifts campaign efforts at Greenville Technical College, Parkland College, and ten others, all exceeding their campaign goals.

Dr. Slater has over 30 years of leadership and senior management experience in two-year colleges. He has served as president of West Georgia Technical College where he conducted successful major gifts campaigns and developed a strategic planning process which has been adopted by many colleges. Dr. Slater has experience with all aspects of college life and all levels of management, and brings to the Clements Group a wealth of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.

Dr. Smith has been involved with adult education and program development for over 30 years. During her 26 years of service to Corning Community College, NY, her various responsibilities included building partnerships, developing new programs, extending college services to the community, growing constituencies, and garnering financial support. She’s participated in AACC’s Leadership Institute, the Harvard University Management of Lifelong Education program, and CASE’s Education Fund-Raising Institute at Dartmouth College. Dr. Smith holds a BS degree from SUNY at Potsdam, a MPS degree from Alfred University, and a doctorate degree from Cornell University.

Dr. Townsend has extensive fundraising consulting experience resulting from the numerous capital campaigns, development audits, foundation board retreats, and feasibility studies he’s conducted for community colleges, a mental health agency, and a park department. He has presented fundraising leadership training to the AACT, AACC, the League of Innovation national conferences, CASE and CRD. A graduate of Lower Columbia College, he holds degrees from the University of Washington.