A HIGHER STANDARD IN EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Dr. Marylouise Fennell, RSM
 Marylouise Fennell is an internationally recognized management consultant in higher education. Dr. Fennell specializes in independent higher education as a mentor, counselor, search consultant, and consultant to Presidents, Administrators, and Boards of Trustees of colleges and universities, and to for-profit businesses who serve the non-profit sector.
Dr. Fennell brings a unique perspective to her specialty - namely, an intimate knowledge and respect of the presidency and higher education administration. She has served as President of Carlow University, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; as Assistant Dean of the Graduate Division of St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut; has been a tenured faculty member, Department Chair, Division Chair, founder and Director of the Counseling Institute, Director of the Pastoral Ministry Institute, and founder and Director of the Cross Cultural Counseling Symposium. Prior to these assignments she served in teaching/clinical/ positions at the University of Hartford and Boston University. Dr. Fennell is the first graduate of the University of Hartford to be named a college president. In 1999, Governor Tom Ridge named Dr. Fennell a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania.
Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, she entered the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Connecticut) in 1957. Dr. Fennell received her degrees in Education, and Counselor Education from the Diocesan Sisters College (B.A., 1961), University of Hartford (Masters of Education, 1972) (Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies, 1973), and Boston University (Doctor in Education, 1976). Dr. Fennell has done post-doctoral training in Management (Harvard University), Family Counseling (Medical School, University of Connecticut), Family Study Center, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital and the Institute of Psychotherapies.
Dr. Fennell has taught, studied, lectured and/or consulted in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Holland, Honduras, Ireland, Israel,Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, Scotland, Switzerland, and the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix.
Dr. Fennell is the Senior Counsel for The Council of Independent Colleges and has been the chief consultant for the Association of Private Universities of Central America. She has assisted the Central American Universities in the establishment of an accreditation system and is the author of the Central American Accreditation Guidelines for Excellence in Education. She is a consultant to numerous associations, colleges, and universities.
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Robert E. Kaffer
 Dr. Kaffer has been active in executive search exclusively for higher education for 20 years. For six years, he was president of a small firm which focused on tailoring search services to each institution's specific needs for each engagement.
Dr. Kaffer received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He served in various faculty and administrative positions in both public and private higher education since 1968, and taught in every institution in which he served.
His service in higher education began as Assistant Dean and then Dean at Lewis University in Illinois. He later served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the University of Nebraska at Kearney where he was elected by his peers to the Faculty Senate. He was invited to direct inter-institutional cooperation at two private colleges in the south (St. Bernard College and Cullman College) where he served as Consortium Director for one year, Chief Executive Officer of both institutions for one year during the merging phase and then President of the merged institution for two years
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Dr. Kaffer was then appointed Director of the newly-inaugurated MBA program at Regis University where he also served as Director of Marketing and Assistant to the President for Personnel. He twice served as the chief academic officer for adult and accelerated programs in the extended absences of the incumbent.
From Regis, he was appointed Vice President for Administration and University Relations at The University of South Dakota where he was responsible for the operations of physical facilities, security, human resources, affirmative action, university printing operations, statewide public radio and television, intercollegiate athletics, educational media center, academic and administrative computing services, public relations and alumni relations.
After serving two years in South Dakota, Dr. Kaffer returned to Regis University where he served as Vice President for Administration, with responsibility for finance, administrative computing, physical facilities, personnel, university contracts, admissions and financial aid. He was principal administrator in the assumption of Loretto Heights College programs and campus and the principal Regis University negotiator with Teikyo University of Japan for the transition of the campus and the development of intercultural programs. He also served as Executive Secretary of the Forum on the Future of Regis University, Executive Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Corporation.
Dr. Kaffer has served as chief administration negotiator with faculty unions in both private and public education, including a nine-campus system in South Dakota. He has been selected as an evaluator of grant proposals by the United States Office of Education for both Title III and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). He has written articles and presented papers on search in higher education, on sociological topics and on higher education.
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