Darcy Briggs, Ph.D., is the
associate vice president for academic affairs at South Dakota Mines.
Darcy Briggs, Ph.D., the associate vice president
for academic affairs at South Dakota Mines has been
accepted into the prestigious Western
Academic Leadership Academy hosted by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
(WICHE). The academy is described by WICHE as a “year-long professional
development program for academic leaders aspiring to become chief academic
officers in the WICHE region’s postsecondary sector.”
Briggs works to improve the student and faculty
experience at Mines with co-curricular programming, accreditation, assessment,
faculty development, non-credit professional education and institutional
research.
Over the last 25 years, she has worked at two-year
and four-year public and private institutions in Nevada, Colorado and South
Dakota.
“We’re fortunate to have world-class leaders on
campus like Dr. Briggs,” says Mines President Jim Rankin. “I’m happy to see
WICHE is recognizing her with this leadership academy. Mines has an excellent
future thanks to the hard work of so many like Dr. Briggs.”
Briggs earned her bachelor’s degree in management
from Northern State University; a master of public administration degree from
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; a master of education from Regis
University and a Ph.D. in leadership from University of the Cumberlands.