Sandra Maddox M.S., M.Ed.

Professional Summary

I help academic units reach their full potential by providing: 

• High quality leadership, collaboration skills, operations, program, and project management ability, and a strong commitment to advocacy for all students and their needs. 

• My commitment to partnership with staff, faculty, the university community, community colleges, community partners, and the public. 

• My commitment to leading others by listening to my team, teaching, training, coaching, and advocacy for my team’s and my unit’s needs.

• A strong commitment to fostering diversity and diverse perspectives in my work and my life.

• Robust communication skills in all mediums; able to bring diverse groups to a mutual understanding. 

• The ability to both conceive of big-picture ideas or changes to systems and construct the scaffolding to put desired changes into practice. 

• The educational experience of both an M.Ed. and an M.S. in Technical Communication, both from the UW, and 14 years of student services work experience in the UW system.

Experience and Selected Accomplishments

Academic Advisor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), UW Seattle, 10/19/2015+

Advises students and prospects; independently composes curriculum and 1503s, manages curriculum, program changes, course scheduling, academic and department requirements and policies, and the department admission process; MSE representative for College placement process; project manager for academic services and major departmental projects (such as ABET accreditation, MSE 125th Anniversary Celebration, and COVID-19 response); provide career guidance and support to students; supports distance curriculum delivery; awards $100K+ scholarship money; writes and designs web and social media content;  executes student engagement and other department events; designs and executes admission, diversity and other recruiting and outreach strategies;  leads data management efforts from department data sources and from BI Portal; administrator for MatCamp, our high school summer camp; program manager for MSE's NSF S-STEM grant program; serves as principle source of expertise, guidance and instruction for faculty, other staff,  and department leadership on all of the above topics. 

Accomplishments

• Led COVID-19 academic contingency planning for the department since February 2020, which enabled rapid responses to rapidly changing circumstances and a viable plan for student continuation and on-time graduation.

• Successfully proposed a university level Career-Connected Learning structure to be used for evaluating existing MSE services and activities and developing new services and activities.  Created and will teach MSE Leadership Seminar career development course (MSE 398) to be taught Winter 2020.

• Led both the departmental approval and implementation processes for MSE’s successful Direct-to-College (DTC) 1503 proposal and is leading the resulting changes to department recruiting and admissions. Participates on College teams, including the Placement Coordinating Committee, which places DTC students into their academic departments. 

• Successfully proposed and, along with faculty, developed and executed new admission criteria and a revised admission process.

• Successfully solicits sponsors and employers to recruit students at our MSE Industry Day event.

• Successful project manager for complex projects: the MSE 125th Anniversary celebration (Sept. 2019) and MSE's undergraduate program accreditation process. 

Counseling Services Coordinator, School of Nursing and Health Studies (NHS), UW Bothell, 1/16/2009-
5/31/2015

Managed admission process and independently issued admission decisions for RN-to-BSN program; coordinated curriculum management and course scheduling; organized and participated in student recruitment activities at Community Colleges, hospitals, and on campus (including webinars); organized and participated in student engagement activities such as quarterly cohort meetings and parties; manager for School data; lead for web site development; supervised and evaluated one student assistant, a 6-month temporary Counseling Services Coordinator, and shared supervision of a Program Coordinator for about 6 months; advised undergraduate students; coordinated teaching sites in Mount Vernon and Seattle; performed significant committee work.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Led execution of the School's movement from a primarily faculty-executed and staff-supported RN-to-BSN admission process to a primarily staff-executed and faculty-monitored admission process. Evaluated 300-400 applications per year for admission.

• Helped lead a year-long organizational effort of campus advisors, which culminated in the formation of the Academic Advisor Council (AAC) and being voted the inaugural Chair.  Executed my mission as Chair by building advising relationships cross-Schools and forming relations with campus leadership.

• Led projects and teamed on projects for creation and ongoing improvements of the School's curriculum development, long-term course scheduling, and faculty assignments processes, as well as new majors development, distance learning program development, and developing a revised curriculum for independent Nursing school accreditation for the RN-to-BSN Program.

• Led NHS team and partnered with a UW Bothell IT team in a campus pilot on converting all student records to electronic versions and storing them in a FERPA compliant cloud storage solution.

• Led projects developing increased School capacity for student data collection and implementation of data-driven improvements, such as student survey creation, building better understanding of BI Portal and other UW tools, and building partnership with UWB Office of Institutional Research.  

• Identified problems with existing Nursing student Compliance services and led project to outsource services to an outside vendor, which both simplified staff workloads and saved students' money.