Academic and Student Affairs

Ron Anderson

Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs

651-201-1498

ron.anderson@minnstate.edu

Ron Anderson serves as Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at Minnesota State. Prior to assuming that position he served as president of Century College from 2011-2015. Anderson has served in numerous other leadership roles including chief academic officer, chief student affairs officer, and chief financial officer, and has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Anderson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Saint Olaf College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in psychology. He also holds a Master of Arts in higher education and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota.

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Nate Hallanger

Special Assistant to the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs

651-201-1473

nathan.hallanger@minnstate.edu

Nate Hallanger serves as Special Assistant to the Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs. Prior to joining the Minnesota State, he worked for eleven years in academic affairs at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, and served as the program director for a non-profit research center in Berkeley, California.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Augustana University before earning a master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

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Satasha Green-Stephen

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

651-201-1496

satasha.green@minnstate.edu

Satasha Green-Stephen joined Minnesota State in July of 2018. She was the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and tenured Associate Professor in the College of Education at Chicago State University (CSU).

Before that appointment she served as Dean of the College of Education at CSU, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at New York Institute of Technology; Associate Dean of Student and Curriculum Affairs, and Associate Professor for the College of Education at The University of Alaska Anchorage.

She holds a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School, Ph.D. in Special Education from The University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in sociology and a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology from Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

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Brent Glass

Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management

651-201-1673

brent.glass@minnstate.edu

Brent Glass is currently serving as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs. Brent has over 20 years of professional experience in higher education. Along with over 13 years in statewide leadership roles focused on academic and student affairs issues, he has over 8 years of campus experience supervising a number of student affairs operations including student employment, career development, gender/sexuality support office, first year experience, orientation, student life, recreation sports, student conduct, health services, and student center operations planning.

Brent holds an A.A. from Northland Community College, a B.S. in criminal justice from Bemidji State University, and an M.S. in higher education administration from St. Cloud State University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the higher education administration program at St. Cloud State University.

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Kim Lynch

Senior System Director for Educational Innovations

651-201-1655

kim.lynch@minnstate.edu

Kim has served as Senior System Director for Educational Innovations since 2014, overseeing enterprise technology services and resources. Kim has been
in the Minnesota State system since 1994 and came to her current role with broad and deep experience in academic affairs and academic technology, having served as a faculty member, active learning advocate, center for instructional technology coordinator, dean of innovative teaching and learning, interim chief information officer, and dean of STEM and computer networking.

Kim holds a B.A. in English and psychology from Hamline University and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota.

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Mary Rothchild

Senior System Director for Workforce Development

651-201-1672

mary.rothchild@minnstate.edu

Mary Rothchild joined the Minnesota State system in 2000. Before entering the field of higher education, Mary was a vice president at US Bank in Minneapolis. She also held commercial lending positions at banks in New York City, specializing in real estate and international shipping. In her current position, Mary is responsible for career and technical education (Carl D. Perkins Act), statewide education-industry partnerships through “centers of excellence,” adult learning and credit-for-prior learning, career and labor market information, and continuing education and customized training.

Mary holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Barnard College, NY, a master’s degree in business administration from Pace University, NY, and a Ph.D. in higher education policy and administration from the University of Minnesota.

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Nancy D. Floyd

Senior System Director for Research

651-201-1817

nancy.floyd@minnstate.edu

Nancy Floyd joined Minnesota State as Senior System Director for Research in March 2020. In that role she oversees production of system submissions to the state Office of Higher Education, reports to the State Legislature on behalf of the system, and IPEDS submissions for seven universities and thirty colleges, as well as a number of systemwide data applications and long-range reporting projects. In this role she also serves on the Minnesota P-20 Education Partnership and specifically on the Learner Lifespan workgroup.

Nancy’s prior roles were as Director of Institutional Analytics at NC State University, system DIR/IPEDS Coordinator at the University of South Carolina flagship campus in Columbia, in institutional effectiveness for Midlands Technical College, and as manager of the test bank for the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy. She has held several offices with state and regional AIR affiliated organizations and with the Southern Universities Group (SUG). Nancy has given presentations on the use of basic statistics in IR, effective reporting in HR, and how to apply user feedback and cognitive psychology to improve data visualizations.

Additionally she is versed on the use of risk assessment in higher education leadership. She is an IPEDS Educator and current member (for public systems) of the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC).

 

Minnesota State Degree and Certificate Completion Report to the Legislature

Minnesota State Degree and Certificate Completion Report Appendix B

Minnesota State Developmental Education Plan Report to the Legislature