COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES - Key Persons
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- Associate Dean, Continuing Education Co - Chair, DEIA Committee
Annette Bhatia has worked with Columbia University's School of Professional Studies since April 2017. As Associate Dean of Continuing Education, Dr. Bhatia currently oversees all Pre-College Programs which include Summer and Academic Year Weekend (non-credit), College Edge (for credit) and Youth in STEM (access initiative); the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the American Language Programs, and Summer and Visiting Student Programs. Dr. Bhatia launched the Academic Year Immersion Program in the fall of 2020, offering over 40 courses covering 10 weekends during the height of the pandemic, leading to a successful year-round non-credit college exploration program for high school students. She has expanded opportunities for Summer Immersion to include online offerings as the programs transition back to on-campus course offerings, and works with the University's undergraduate departments to increase enrollment in the College Edge programs. Dr. Bhatia launched and currently leads the Programs' Committee on Instruction, which evaluates all Pre-College curriculum and faculty appointments. Additionally, in partnership with the Dean's office, she launched the Program's first Advisory Board, bringing together principals and headmasters of eleven New York City and New Jersey public, private, and charter schools. Annette also served as the School's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee inaugural co-chair from 2020 through 2023.
Dr. Bhatia has increased access initiatives to provide scholarship funding for underrepresented groups which is a lifelong passion of hers as a first generation college graduate. She has also previously led the publication of the Academic Program Review, chaired the School's Assessment Committee during the 2019-2020 Academic year, and led program discovery and review processes leading to more streamlined practices for course management and faculty hiring. Dr. Bhatia has extensive experience in higher education and comes with a strong student affairs background, previously working in our Student Affairs Division as the Director of Student Services. Dr. Bhatia has held positions at BMCC/CUNY and the University of Arizona prior to joining Columbia University.
A loyal wildcat, Dr. Bhatia holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Political Science, and her B.A. in Political Science and Mexican American Studies from the University of Arizona.
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- Director of College Access & Persistence, Success Academy Charter Schools
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- Program Director, M.S. in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Professor of Practice
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- Associate Professor of Professional Practice IKNS Program Director PI, Climate School Affiliate, Data Science Institute
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- Senior Lecturer in Discipline, Narrative Medicine
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- Associate Director and Lecturer, Enterprise Risk Management Consultant, Cassandra Analytics
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- Professor, Department of History
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- Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia SPS / Executive Staff
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- Lecturer, Nonprofit Management U.S. Executive Director Women for Women International
E. Ramone Segree, Ed.D., a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), is a nonprofit executive, fundraiser, brand manager and strategist. He serves as U.S. Executive Director for Women for Women International.
He was previously VP for Development, Chief Development Officer and Senior Director, Development, Alumni Affairs and Education, NYU Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Long Island. He also was VP for Advancement and Foundation Executive Director, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, SVP for Advancement, Meharry Medical College, VP for Advancement and Foundation Executive Director, Salem State University, and VP for Development, Pittsburgh Public Theater.
He was also President, Segree Associates, a strategic management and philanthropy firm he formed in 2002, and an interim executive member with the Registry for college and university presidents. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserves and Pennsylvania National Guard as a medical specialist.
His publications include strategic management, philanthropy, leadership, and alumni affairs, and his research includes community psychology, arts learning, organizational leadership, and the college presidency. He is a frequent presenter, which recently included the history and practice of ethics in philanthropy and voluntarism, the impact of racial equity and coronavirus on fundraising diversity, and mapping systemic racism through social science theory and research.
He was board chair of the International Association of Fundraising Professionals Foundation for Philanthropy (AFP), and now serves on its Past Chairs Council and Leadership Society. Additionally, he has held leadership roles on numerous civic, cultural and human service boards.
He holds degrees from Columbia University, Teachers College (EdD, adult learning and organizational leadership) and Pennsylvania State University (MPsSc, community psychology and organizational development). He also was awarded an Honorary Associate Degree from Community College of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Education
Ed.D., Columbia University
M.Ps.Sc., Pennsylvania State University
B.A., California University of Pennsylvania
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- Program Director & Professor of Political Science / Ex Officio, Secretary of the Faculty of Professional Studies
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- Advisory Board Member, Pre - College Programs Head of School Dwight - Englewood School
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- Head of School Trinity School
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- Program Director & Lecturer in Discipline, Construction Administration
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- Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of Curriculum, Strategic Communication / Ex Officio, Secretary of the Committee on Instruction
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- Professor of Practice and Program Director, M.S. in Applied Analytics
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- Program Director, M.S. in Strategic Communication Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Professional Studies Dean Emerita of the Faculty of Professional Studies
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- Senior Director, Faculty and Instruction, Pre - College Programs
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate Dean, Administrative Affairs and Communications Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Louise A. Rosen serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Administrative Affairs and Communications at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies and is a lecturer in International and Public Affairs. Prior to joining SPS, she had been Deputy Vice President for Strategic Engagement. In her decade at the Earth Institute she incubated eight degree programs, including the first undergraduate major in Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the M.S. in Sustainability Management.
She advocates for environmental conservation, animal rescue, and animal/nature-assisted therapies. Her research includes understanding socially-constructed values of the environment to create empathy to advance support for sustainable development and the natural world. In particular she is interested in non-verbal communication, experiential storytelling, the sentience of the non-human living world and how empathy with them can be used as a path forward to seeding empathy across social groups.
She was a cofounder of three magazines in London, and has written for several publications including Newsweek.com, Forbes magazine, Upside Today, Fortune Small Business, Vogue, and The New York Times. She has a B.S. in geography from the London School of Economics and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Currently she is earning an M.S. in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, with a focus on narratives in nature and empathetic design. She volunteers to help children with special needs and veterans and first responders with PTSD.
Advisor; Former Principal, Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering
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- Administrator, Pre - College Program in Creative Writing Writer and Program Coordinator, Columbia University School of the Arts
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- Program Director, Bioethics Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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- Professor of Practice Associate Director, M.S. in Sustainability Management Program
Advisor; Head, Trevor Day School; Head, Private School Guild NYC
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- Lecturer, Sports Management Program Director, M.S. in Sports Management / Ex Officio, Secretary of the Faculty Development Committee
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- Principal, Stuyvesant High School
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- Senior Lecturer, American Language Program Associate Director for University Partnerships
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- Professor of Professional Practice in Applied Analytics and Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department in College of Arts and Sciences
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- Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Discipline, Enterprise Risk Management President, SimErgy Consulting
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- Associate Dean, Alumni Relations and Development
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- Program Director and Lecturer, Human Capital Management
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- Senior Vice Dean, School of Professional Studies Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs
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- Head of School, the Hewitt School
Troy has served Columbia with great distinction for more than two decades. Since joining the University in 2000, Troy has excelled in a variety of senior positions within Columbia Business School, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Office of the Provost. As Executive Vice Provost, his portfolio included critical areas of academic management-financial planning, faculty housing, human resources, travel, emergency protocols, and space planning-in addition to oversight of the International Students & Scholars Office, Columbia University Press, The University Seminars, and the Alliance joint-venture between Columbia, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Troy has also served as a member of the University's Emergency Management Operations Team and on the President's Advisory Task Force on COVID-19.
Prior to his time in the Office of the Provost, Troy served as Senior Associate Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, responsible for all student-related and administrative departments and functions. Before that he spent ten years at Columbia Business School, where he ran Executive Education, successfully seeing it through the challenges of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, and for a period also served as Assistant Dean of Executive MBA programs.
Education
MBA, Columbia University
BM, Ithaca College
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- Head of School, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
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- Senior Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Zelon Crawford serves as the Columbia University School of Professional Studies' Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs. She joined SPS in October 2020 after serving as Associate Dean of MBA Student Affairs and Dean of Students for the full-time MBA Program at Columbia Business School (CBS). While at CBS, Crawford was instrumental in driving change and enhancing the student experience, advocating for accessibility and inclusion, streamlining operational inefficiencies, and building coalitions with stakeholders across the School. Within two short years of arriving at the Business School, she received the prestigious Robert W. Lear Service Award, a recognition bestowed by students to a faculty member or administrator in honor of their outstanding and extraordinary service to the student community.