Meet Donnell Wiggins

Candidate for Board Director

Associate Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management & Dean of Admission
University of Dayton (OH)

Bio

NACAC

• Member, 2013-present
• Guiding the Way to Inclusion: Faculty, 2020-present
• Professional Development Antiracist Education Institute: Facilitator, 2019-21

OHIO ACAC

• Member, 2007-present
• Delegate, 2022-Present
• Guiding the Way to Inclusion Committee: Member, 2008-13

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Mason City School Student Achievement Committee 2021- present
• Montgomery County Ohio College Promise: Board Member, 2020-present
• National College Access Network (NCAN): Member, 2016-present
• American Association of Collegiate Registrars & Admissions Officers (AACRAO): Member, 2015-present
• Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio: Member, 2015-present
• Wilberforce University Cincinnati Alumni Council: Member, 2012- 2019

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• University of Dayton, Dayton, OH: Associate Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management and Dean of Admission, 2021-present; Assistant Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management and Dean of Admission, 2020- 21; Assistant Vice President for New Markets, 2016- 20
• Urbana University, Urbana, OH: Director of Admission, 2015- 16
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH: Director of Alumni Engagement and Programming, 2013- 15
• Miami University, Oxford, OH: Assistant Director of Recruitment and Urban Outreach, 2012- 13
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH: Admission Counselor; Territory Manager, 2011- 12
• School of Advertising Art, Kettering, OH: Recruiter, 2009- 11
• Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, OH: Lead Resident Director, 2005-07; Admissions Counselor & Campus Visit Coordinator, 2007- 09

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (to be completed in 2024) University of Dayton, Educational Leadership, Dayton, OH
• M.S. McKendree University, Higher Education Administrative Services, Lebanon, IL
• B.S. Wilberforce University, Psychology, Wilberforce, OH

AWARDS

• Dayton Business Journal Emerging Leader: Recipient, 2021
• Dayton Business Journal’s 40 under 40: Recipient, 2021
• Selected for TedX Dayton: Recipient, 2019
• Emerging Leader for Who’s Who in Cincinnati: Recipient, 2014
• Emerging Leader for Who’s Who in Black Cincinnati: Recipient, 2013

PRESENTATION & PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS

• 2022 The Journal of College Admission, Winter Issue: New Student Pathways and Intentional Conversations about Diversity and Inclusion are moving the needle for underrepresented students at University of Dayton.
• 2022 NACAC Annual Conference: Dialogue matters: Building resilience with difficult conversations at a midwestern PWI.
• 2022 NACAC Guiding the Way to Inclusion: There’s Politics & There’s “Politics”: Strategies for Leaders of Color.
• 2022 NACAC Guiding the Way to Inclusion: You Are Called to Lead
• 2022 Association of Mariansit Universities Symposium: An opportunity for discourse: Catholic Marianist institutions of Higher Learning Impacting the Disadvantaged and Marginalized of Our Society
• 2019 NACAC Guiding the Way to Inclusion: Just do it: Black Male Leadership in Higher Education
• 2019 TEDx Talks on Education at TEDx Dayton Salon: YES, YOU CAN
• 2018 NACAC Guiding the Way to Inclusion: The Evolution of New Markets.
• 2017 Catholic Diocese Youth in Dayton, Ohio: How to Prepare for College