Darcy Briggs, Ph.D., associate vice president
for academic affairs at South Dakota Mines, has been selected to
serve as a member of the research advisory board of
the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO).
Darcy
Briggs, Ph.D., associate vice president for academic affairs at South
Dakota Mines, has been selected to serve as a member of the research advisory board of the American
Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO). AACRAO
research goals include disseminating relevant research on student success to
practitioners and institutional decision makers, developing new insights and
information from the membership to help them successfully lead their
institutions, and contributing to a better understanding of the factors and
conditions that impact higher education academic/enrollment services and
student success.
In this role, Briggs will help advise and provide
feedback to Dr. Wendy Kilgore, AACRAO’s director of research, as well as serve
as a subject matter expert.
The board consists of up to seven members, each
serving three-year terms.
Briggs seeks to improve the student and faculty
experience at Mines through her work 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, Ph.D., P.E. “Dr. Briggs’ involvement will be invaluable
to AACRAO’s research advisory board.”
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.