
	Widmeyer Communications Announces Higher Education Advisory Panel Group Comprised of National Leaders, Top Academics, Policy Experts; Will Provide Counsel and Insight to Widmeyer Higher Ed Clients Washington, DC – Widmeyer Communications today announced the formation of a nine-member Advisory Panel, which includes national leaders, top academics and policy experts to guide the firm’s growth in higher education. According to Scott Widmeyer, Founder and Chairman of Widmeyer Communications, the Advisory Panel members will serve as senior counsel to the firm’s growing roster of clients in higher education. “This talented team will be a great addition to the depth of expertise our firm can provide to colleges and universities as well as policy groups, foundations and other interests in higher education,” Widmeyer said. He also noted that the Panel will work closely with him and Chief Strategy Officer Margaret Dunning, and serve as a sounding board on evolving trends shaping the face of higher education in the 21^st century. In recent years, Widmeyer Communications has increased its bandwidth in higher education by providing high-level strategic counsel, research, media and branding expertise in areas tied to financial aid, admissions, crisis management, diversity, presidential leadership, and development. The firm’s clients have included prestigious institutions such as Wellesley College, Princeton University, Northwestern University, West Virginia University, Miami University of Ohio, Bryn Mawr, University of North Carolina at Asheville, New York University’s Stern School of Business and many others. Widmeyer also works on behalf of associations, foundations and corporations focused on higher education such as the College Board, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Lumina Foundation for Education and Pearson Education. Members of the Higher Education Advisory Panel include: Dr. Robert Dickeson, former senior vice president for policy and organizational learning at the Lumina Foundation, former president of the University of Northern Colorado and former senior policy adviser to the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education; Edward Fiske, former New York Times education editor and author of The Fiske Guide to Colleges; Dr. Susan Resneck Pierce, President Emerita of the University of Puget Sound; Dr. Martha Romero, Founding Director of the Community College Leadership Development Initiatives at Claremont Graduate University and former president of a community college in California; Susan E. Tifft, the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at Duke University and author and co-author of several best selling books as well as former associate editor of TIME magazine; Jose Tijerino, President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation; Deborah Wadsworth, former executive director and president of Public Agenda, current member of the Board of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and chair of the Board of Trustees at Bennington College; Dr. Michael J. Worth, Professor of Nonprofit Management in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration, former vice president for Development and Alumni Affairs at The George Washington University; and Dr. Diana Knott Martinelli, the first Widmeyer Communications Professor in Public Relations at West Virginia University and former faculty member at Ohio University.

Widmeyer Communications Announces Higher Education Advisory Panel

Group Comprised of National Leaders, Top Academics, Policy Experts;

Will Provide Counsel and Insight to Widmeyer Higher Ed Clients

Washington, DC – Widmeyer Communications today announced the formation of a nine-member Advisory Panel, which includes national leaders, top academics and policy experts to guide the firm’s growth in higher education.

According to Scott Widmeyer, Founder and Chairman of Widmeyer Communications, the Advisory Panel members will serve as senior counsel to the firm’s growing roster of clients in higher education.

“This talented team will be a great addition to the depth of expertise our firm can provide to colleges and universities as well as policy groups, foundations and other interests in higher education,” Widmeyer said. He also noted that the Panel will work closely with him and Chief Strategy Officer Margaret Dunning, and serve as a sounding board on evolving trends shaping the face of higher education in the 21^st century.

In recent years, Widmeyer Communications has increased its bandwidth in higher education by providing high-level strategic counsel, research, media and branding expertise in areas tied to financial aid, admissions, crisis management, diversity, presidential leadership, and development.

The firm’s clients have included prestigious institutions such as Wellesley College, Princeton University, Northwestern University, West Virginia University, Miami University of Ohio, Bryn Mawr, University of North Carolina at Asheville, New York University’s Stern School of Business and many others.

Widmeyer also works on behalf of associations, foundations and corporations focused on higher education such as the College Board, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Lumina Foundation for Education and Pearson Education.

Members of the Higher Education Advisory Panel include:

Dr. Robert Dickeson, former senior vice president for policy and organizational learning at the Lumina Foundation, former president of the University of Northern Colorado and former senior policy adviser to the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education;
Edward Fiske, former New York Times education editor and author of The Fiske Guide to Colleges;
Dr. Susan Resneck Pierce, President Emerita of the University of Puget Sound;
Dr. Martha Romero, Founding Director of the Community College Leadership Development Initiatives at Claremont Graduate University and former president of a community college in California;
Susan E. Tifft, the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at Duke University and author and co-author of several best selling books as well as former associate editor of TIME magazine;
Jose Tijerino, President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation;
Deborah Wadsworth, former executive director and president of Public Agenda, current member of the Board of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and chair of the Board of Trustees at Bennington College;
Dr. Michael J. Worth, Professor of Nonprofit Management in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration, former vice president for Development and Alumni Affairs at The George Washington University; and
Dr. Diana Knott Martinelli, the first Widmeyer Communications Professor in Public Relations at West Virginia University and former faculty member at Ohio University.