Dr. Will Miller is Associate Vice President for Accreditation and Assessment at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In this role, he leverages best practices to help faculty and staff in their quest for continuous improvement and student learning. Through collaboration, responsiveness, and transparency, he helps the campus community design and implement rigorous, high-quality, authentic, and useful assessments for measuring progress and the impact of initiatives. He serves as SACSCOC Liaison and also oversees all disciplinary accreditations (including AABI, ABET, and ACBSP).

He previously served as Executive Director of Institutional Analytics, Effectiveness, and Strategic Planning at Jacksonville University, Associate Vice President of Campus Strategy at Campus Labs, and Executive Director of Institutional Analytics, Effectiveness, and Planning at Flagler College.

He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies and Public Affairs at The University of Akron, where he also earned a Master of Applied Politics from the Ray C. Bliss Institute. He holds both a Master of Arts in Political Science from Ohio University and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with his Bachelor of Arts from the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College.

I had the chance recently to join the Going the Distance with Alby Salsa Podcast. Alby and I met when he was at Blackboard. Alby and I agreed that we would just press record and start talking, and see where the conversation goes. In this free flowing conversation, a couple of themes emerged:

• The importance of cultural and political diversity within institutional leadership, and how insular thinking slows progress for colleges/universities.

• Chat GPT: future use cases for recruitment and success. How it can drive enrollments, how it can really screw things up, how to put guardrails around it, etc.