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• Served as vice president for university relations at Seattle University (a four-year liberal arts university with professional schools serving 6,000 students) for nine years.
– Was instrumental in the acquisition the Seattle University School of Law, and integrated it into the university.
– Concurrently served as assistant provost for executive education, where she developed an interdisciplinary program of executive leadership training through its schools of business, education and theology, providing executives at Boeing, Wyerhaeuser and other Seattle companies with a 21-day $17,000 curriculum.
– Taught graduate courses in education and management.

• Other leadership experience
– Served as president of the Independent Colleges of Washington, a consortium of ten private colleges and universities.
– Served as vice president for development at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi.

Fiscal Management

• College of Santa Fe:
– When she started at CSF, the college was adrift with a $3 million annual deficit on a $20 million budget. She recovered the budget and created positive audits for the past three years.
–Developed a $52 million master plan for the 90-acre Santa Fe campus. So far, a $4.8 million tennis center has been built along with a $5 million classroom facility.
– Launched a $15 million capital campaign to build the endowment and the student center.

• Seattle University:
– Completed a 4-year $66.8 million capital campaign, and exceeding the goal of $55 million by over $11 million. Received 18 gifts of $1 million or more, with over 16,000 people donating.
– Two years after the capital campaign was completed, raised another $3.5 million for a new facility.

• Has a 20-year proven track record of leading successful development programs

Leadership Style

• Shares governance responsibilities and has experience working with boards and councils. Her 5-year visionary plan at the College of Santa Fe brought together 70 participants.
• Hallmarks of leadership: accountability, shared responsibility and common purpose.
• Views challenges in a positive way and looks at challenges through a “what’s possible” lens.
• Understands importance of resource development.
• Encourages collaboration with the community.

Philosophy

• Hamline’s New American University statue mirrors her personal philosophy and she believes in the core value of “student centeredness”.
• Contemporary understanding of the nature of diversity and works to establish a welcoming and supportive environment for all people.
• Commitment to community service and service learning.
• Dedicated to preparing students to be effective and ethical citizens.
• Leads others in ethical, personal, and sensitive ways.
• Her work as a Protestant enables her to support the values of the United Methodist tradition at Hamline.

Education

• Doctorate in education leadership from Seattle University.
Thesis explored restructuring academic programs and the role of faculty in effective organizational change.
• MA from Seattle University.
Concentration in educational administration.
• BA from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma.
Majors in English and speech communication.
• New Presidents Seminar at Harvard University.

Personal

• Husband, J. Laird Hanson, currently vice president for Presbyterian Medical Services in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Son, J. Pierce Hanson, a junior at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.