Kristine Southard, P.h.D.
Senior Consultant
Areas of Expertise: Higher education regulatory, accreditation, and statutory compliance, academic affairs oversight, operations review, enrollment management and programmatic review, strategic planning, teach-out academic and financial planning, winddown team leadership.
Kirstine has been a leader in non-profit and proprietary higher education for nearly 30 years. With 8 years of fulltime faculty experience as an assistant professor of literature and academic advisor, Kristine then was an executive administrator within the College of New Rochelle, Mercy University, Eastern International College, and Lincoln Technical Institute, including positions as campus director, academic dean, associate vice president, and campus president. Kristine was an executive administrative and academic leader in the team that executed the merger between The College of New Rochelle and Mercy University, having completed due diligence services, administered restructuring financial and academic planning, completed academic program crosswalks for state and federal approval, and oversaw transition accreditation and regulatory compliance for matters involving students, faculty and staff for the College of New Rochelle.
Kristine holds expert practice in and understanding of accreditation and reaccreditation compliance with: the Middle States Higher Education Commission (MSHEC), Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), the Department of Education, New York State Education Department (NYSED), New Jersey President’s Council (NJPC), New Jersey Board of Nursing (NJBON), and New Jersey Higher Education Office of the Secretary of Higher Education (NJOSHE) and the Department of Education (DOE).
For the past five years, as a higher education consultant, Kristine has advised non-profit and for-profit institutions regarding operational and academic conditions leading to institutional persistence, merger and acquisition pathways, and winddown compliance.