Scott S. Richardson
CANDIDATE SUMMARY
20-plus years in supervisory/leadership/management roles in Colleges and Universities with proven successful diversity and impact practice strategic leadership experiences at those levels to include corporate America. Extended experience
teaching/training/advising diverse student and adult populations. Committed to the human condition in the areas of inclusion, human dignity, diversity and equity.
EDUCATION
Ed. D: Higher Education Administration & Leadership Studies, (May 2010)
Concentration: Critical and Social Theory Widener University, Chester, PA
Dissertation: An Examination of Governance, Placement, Leadership and Decision Making of ACT 101 Programs in Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities
Advisors: Dr. Alonzo Cavin (deceased) and Dr. Michael Ledoux
M. Ed: Curriculum Development and Pedagogy B.A: Music, Concentration: Voice and Theory
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
HIGHER EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
*University of Houston – Clear Lake (UHCL), Houston, TX (Fall 2018 to Present)
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer/ Title IX Coordinator
ADA (504, 508, EIR), Equity, VAWA, Affirmative Action, Title VII & IX and Investigations:
• Develop and implement vision, mission and leadership for diversity, equity, inclusion and engagement for UHCL.
• Work collaboratively as responsible member of UHCL senior leadership team/Cabinet.
• Report directly to UHCL President.
• Developed and named Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion/Title IX (EDIT) and its premiere functions.
• Provide leadership through research and best (NEXT) practices for organizational diversity, inclusion and engagement.
• Provide leadership and ensure Title IX and Title VII training and development for compliance and investigations.
• Establish high impact practices whereby diversity and inclusion will be defined within an organizational context and in the designing a strategic, cross-team program that creates deeper cultural and ethnic awareness and sensitivity. • Provide guidance and consultation to UHCL campus to ensure that diversity,
inclusion, Title IX and Title VII compliance are a part of all decision-making processes.
• Provide leadership and direction for ADA compliance and pregnancy accommodations.
• Ensure ADA and EIR (Electronic Information Resource) compliance.
• Provide training and exposure to expectations for: New Employee Orientations, New Student Orientations, Transfer Student Orientations and International Student Orientations.
• Serve as subject matter expert and resource for campus community for all DEI matters.
• Develop and maintane new community partnerships that leverage the organizational commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Provide leadership and guidance for policy evaluation and reform. • Direct organization’s Diversity and Inclusion Council.
• Provide vision and leadership to CARE Team: Cross-functional campus constituents to support, remedy and intervene for student persistence.
• Provide vision and leadership to SART Team: Sexual Assault Response Team. • Created George Floyd Exposure Document.
• Created E.C.L.I.P.S.E Curriculum Project.
• Created Operation H.O.P.E: Honoring Other People’s Experience. • Provide leadership and direction for Faculty and Staff Pay Equity Effort. • Serve in Ombud capacity to mitigate, diffuse and remedy conflict. • Secure outside funding.
• Responsible for audit compliance for all areas of responsibility. • Architect of UHCL Affirmative Action Plan
o Operationalize
o Measurement and data collection o Implementation
• SB (Senate Bill) 212 implementation/incorporation and education/training. • HB (House Bill) 1735 implementation/incorporation and education/training. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Talent Acquisition/Search and Screen:
• Partner with the Executive Director, Human Resources to create a detailed plan to help the University identify and recruit top talent from non-traditional
backgrounds.
• Drive innovation and leverage unique assets to advance the objectives of the organization.
• Responsible for all faculty searches and all director level searches and above. • Chief architect of University search and screen process and expectations. • Provide mandatory search and screen training.
Retention and Development:
• Develop a talent management and development framework for identifying and grooming high-potential, high-performing diverse team members.
• Align efforts with current practices and objectives for organizational retention and promotion.
Engagement:
• Target community sponsorships and supplier diversity programs.
Houston - Guided Pathways to Success Administrator (GPS):
• Provide leadership for regional collaboration between 13 two- and four-year public post-secondary institutions.
• Help build GPS partner capacity to increase post-secondary partner student
success: enrollment, transfer and completion by closing the gap by post-secondary attainment.
• Chief implementation architect for university of Houston – Clear Lake.
*Bloomsburg University of PA (Fall 2015 to Fall 2018)
Dean, Student Success & Chair, Academic Probation & Dismissal
• Oversaw and ensured effective coordination of offices and programs that support retention, student success, academic achievement and graduation of
undergraduate students from diverse and first-generation backgrounds.
• Reported directly to the VP for Enrollment and prior to the leadership transition, reported to the Provost and Chief Academic Affairs Officer.
• Supervised comprehensive Center for Academic Success.
• Responsible for coordination and scheduling of all freshman seminar courses that supported student achievement.
• Ensured efficacy for credit bearing academic enrichment courses.
• Provided leadership for effective academic intervention and intrusive advisement programs as they served to assist in co-curricular student success programming and faculty advisor development.
• Was responsible for faculty evaluations (tenure and non-tenure) and supervision of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence and Teaching Scholars.
• Provided leadership for the Students of Color Success Initiative o Emerging Scholars Program
• Facilitated co-requisite model of engagement.
• Provided vision and leadership for academic probation committee. • Provided leadership and decision making for all academic dismissal.
• Managed and wrote ACT 101 grant.
• Served as lead architect for EAB Student Success Collaborative and Guide implementation achieving 100% adoption.
• Responsible for conditional admit (first generation, URM) student retention: 83% Fall 2018 at Bloomsburg University.
• Increased Academic Dismissal and Probation reinstatement by 66% at Bloomsburg started with 24%.
• Liaison for transfer students and articulation agreements. Completed agreements with: Lehigh Carbon Community College, Community College of Philadelphia, Reading Area Community College and Montgomery County Community College.
Provided Leadership to the Following Offices:
• Trio-SSS • Upward Bound
• Military and Veterans Affairs • Academic Advising
• Tutorial Services (Knowledge Skills Center)
• ACT 101/EOP (Educational Opportunities Program) • SSC (Student Success Collaborative and SSC Fellows)
• SPA (Summer Preparatory Academy for At-Promise Student Population) • Writing Center
• Math Lab for Supplemental Instruction • Frederick Douglass Learning Community
• Department of Academic Enrichment (Teaching Faculty and Undeclared Student Populations).
*Misericordia University (Summer/2005 to Fall/2013)
Founding Director, Office of Inclusive Excellence:
• Served as point of contact/resource for campus constituents for the purpose of leadership for inclusive excellence initiatives and or efforts.
• Provided in-class lectures and informal development sessions when requested. • Delivered cultural competence courses in a cross-discipline format.
• Assisted and supported HR department in identifying and reaching out to diverse pools of applicants for faculty and staff positions.
• Coordinated and led strategic initiatives to align with commitment to inclusive excellence.
• Chaired University Diversity Committee.
• Advised President's Cabinet regarding issues of diversity and inclusion.
• NEPA (North East PA) regional coordinator or DEI training and development. • Provided DEI consulting for higher education and corporate entities.
• Assisted and consulted regionally with Affirmative Action Plan development, implementation and measurement
o Corporate
o Higher Education
*Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA (Fall/2000 to Summer/2005)
Director of Social Equity and Recruitment Search Manager:
• Provided institutional oversight and monitoring of equity and affirmative action policies and procedures for faculty and executive hiring.
• Developed training workshops and educational programming on policies, laws, regulations.
• Performed investigations for dispute resolution and mediation.
• Created and implemented programming to promote mutual understanding and inclusion practices for employees.
• Served as liaison with legal office (PA State System of Higher Education) for internal and external EEOC and OCR related issues, charges, complaints and lawsuits.
• Conducted Salary Equity reviews.
• Maintained communication and assisted with collective bargaining agreement, discussions and decisions.
• Was responsible for all aspects of the investigative process for Title IX and Title VII.
• Provided Title VII and Title IX training and development for campus community. • Provided recommendations to senior leadership for administrative actions re:
Recruitment Search Manager:
• Responsible for review of faculty and executive hiring practices.
• Collaborated with search committees, department chairs and deans to develop and implement plans for effective recruitment and retention for faculty of color. • Developed contacts with institutions that graduate significant numbers of minority
Ph. D’s, particularly Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). • Recruited from regional and national academic and professional conferences to
attract diverse pools of faculty and executive applicants.
• Prepared monthly reports on workforce utilization and the progress of the hiring goals.
*Pennsylvania State University – Berks/Lehigh Valley College, Reading PA
(Summer/1997 to Fall/2000)
Coordinator of Educational Opportunities/ACT 101 Program:
• Provided specialized recruitment, retention and counseling services to at-promise student populations.
• Was responsible for recruitment of all at-promise, first generation student populations.
• Managed and wrote ACT 101/EOP grant.
• Performed academic and personal counseling of program participants. • Tutored and monitored participants with particular attention given to course
selection, academic planning and financial aid status.
• Spearheaded strategic recruitment planning and implementation throughout Berks County and other Penn State service areas.
• Performed research and maintained statistical data for monitoring and improving service to identified population.
*Reading Area Community College, Reading, PA (Fall/1993 to Summer/1997)
Director of College Assessment:
• Evaluated academic transcripts for credit and non-credit transfer students; developed and implemented articulation agreements with schools in the community college service area.
• Evaluated all military transcripts for college credit.
• Served as CLEP and Advanced Placement Testing Coordinator.
• Served as contact person for Tech-Prep initiative; organized and administered all national standardized tests.
• Served as evaluator of all work/life experience presented for college credit. • Developed and conducted seminars on assessing life experience for college credit. • Created 2-plus 2 relationship with four-year universities through Tech-Prep effort. • Served as single point of contact for minority student recruitment and retention.
CORPORATE CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
*Accenture, LTD (Fall/2013 to Fall/2016)
• Served as consultant specializing in Change Management and Organizational Behavior and SAP adoption.
• Provided training for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across multiple spaces in Accenture enterprise to 14 nationwide associates.
• Created all training and development documents. Materials remain as intellectual property.
ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
*Misericordia University (F/T) (Summer 2008 to Fall 2014)
Graduate Organizational Management and Development Assistant Professor: • Organizational Communication
• Organizational Behavior
• Undergraduate Business Communications • Perspectives in Management
• Organizational Leadership • Leadership in the Workplace • Law and Ethics
*Wilkes University – Jay Sidhu School of Business (Fall/2013 to Fall/2016)
Adjunct Assistant Professor: • Intro to Leadership
• Senior Leadership Capstone • Creativity and Innovation
*Alvernia University - Master of Leadership Program (Fall 2015 to Fall 2018)
Adjunct Assistant Professor: • Social Theory
• Organization Theory • Leadership Theory
• Organizational Administration
*Pennsylvania State University, Berks/Lehigh Valley College (While at PSU-Berks)
Instructor:
• First Year Seminar • Counselor Education
*Reading Area Community College (While at Reading Area CC)
Instructor:
• First Year Seminar
• Basics of College Study Skills • Introduction to Music Appreciation • Literacy in the Community
ANNUAL PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presenter. Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education from 1998 to Present.
Invited Presenter. Robert D. Lynch Black Student Leadership Development Conference, from 1998 to Present.
Invited Presenter. “The History of Black Access to Higher Education.” National Black Graduate School Conference, Washington, DC, April 2003.
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presenter/Publication. “The Properties of Educating At-Risk Students (101). The Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy,
November 2003.
Keynote Presenter/Publication. “Bloomsburg University Case Study” EAB National Conference, Washington, DC Fall 2017.
Invited Presenter/Publication. “Tools for High Impact Practices.” NADE: National Association of Developmental Educators, Atlanta, Ga. March 2019. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice. Current – Online. Fall 2019.
Invited Presenter/Publication. “Impacting URM’s Student Success Rates.” NOSS (formerly NADE) National Organization for Student Success, Nashville, Tn. April 2019. “Addressing Misperceptions of Underprepared Students: A Case Study at a Public American University”. Global Education Review (Jan. 2020).
RECENT AWARD/S
2017/2018 Bloomsburg University NAACP Faculty of the Year Recipient.
COACHING EXPERIENCE
*Misericordia University
• Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
• 2011 – 2012 MAC Freedom Conference Champions
• 2011 – 2012 Women’s Division III NCAA Tournament: second round exit
*Pennsylvania State University – Berks/Lehigh Valley College
• Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
*Reading Area Community College
• Head Men’s Basketball Coach
*Kutztown University of PA
PERSONAL
• Co-Founder of Top-Notch Records (Philadelphia PA) released 2 successful independent records, reaching GOLD status.
• Member of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. • Landmark Forum Advocate.
