Dr. Paul
LeBlanc joins the higher education technology market leader
to impact industry innovation and accelerate the modernization of
higher education institutions
RESTON,
Va., July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellucian,
the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today
announced that Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc,
author, industry leader, innovator and former president of
Southern New Hampshire University
(SNHU), has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors. Dr.
LeBlanc has decades of experience increasing student access and
engagement and leveraging technology to scale opportunity and
impact in higher education. Under the 21 years of Dr. LeBlanc's
direction, SNHU grew from serving 2,800 students to over 250,000
today and is now the largest non-profit provider of online higher
education in the country.
"We are thrilled to welcome Paul to the Ellucian
Board of Directors and are eager to leverage his expertise to
propel our vision of unlocking learning for all," said Laura Ipsen, President and CEO, Ellucian.
"Paul's demonstrated success in advancing the adoption of
technology to reimagine and reignite higher education has opened
the door to new models. As a champion for students, he will help us
effectively leverage emerging technologies, such as AI, as part of
our SaaS platform that will further accelerate student
success."
"I'm excited to join the Ellucian Board as the
company builds out its next-generation SIS and AI tools," said
Paul LeBlanc. "Given the
criticality of data, Student Information Systems (SIS) have gone
from utility to strategic platform, and Ellucian is the industry
leader in this space."
Dr. LeBlanc is the Board Chair for Human Systems,
an AI and Education company he co-founded with noted researcher
George Siemens, and he is a member
of the Board of Directors for Chegg, a leading student-first online
learning platform. An early adopter of emerging technologies, Dr.
LeBlanc will be a strategic advisor to Ellucian's AI Governance
Board, which was established to oversee policies and processes for
the use of internal AI-enabled tools, as well as the incorporation
of AI solutions into Ellucian products. Dr. LeBlanc's expertise and
industry experience will ensure progress and thoughtful
application.
Considered one of America's most innovative
educators, Dr. LeBlanc has received countless accolades and awards,
including one of 15 "Classroom Revolutionaries" by Forbes Magazine
and one of America's ten most innovative university presidents by
Washington Monthly. He was named 2023 Citizen of the Year in his
home city of Manchester, NH, and
in 2018, Dr. LeBlanc won the prestigious TIAA Institute Hesburgh
Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education.
Dr. LeBlanc is the author of Students First:
Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education (2021),
winner of the 2022 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature, and
Broken: How Our Social Systems Are Failing Us and How We Can Fix
Them (2022). In 2015, he served as Senior Policy Advisor to
Under Secretary Ted Mitchell at the
US Department of Education, working on competency-based education,
new accreditation pathways, and innovation. He has also served on
numerous boards, including the National Advisory Committee on
Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Board on Higher
Education and Workforce, and the Board of the American Council on
Education, which he chaired.
About Ellucian
Ellucian powers
innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900
customers across 50 countries, serving 22 million students. Fueled
by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs
of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features
best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now
and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire
student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student
recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics,
fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative
solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more
than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater
institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Media Contact
Lindsay Stanley
Lindsay.Stanley@Ellucian.com
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