About Maggie Culp 

An experienced consultant currently assisting over 50 colleges, universities and businesses to become more effective, efficient and outcomes-oriented, Maggie Culp co-edited Community College Student Affairs: What Really Matters (2005), Life at the Edge of the Wave:Lessons from the Community College (1998), and Promoting Student Success in the Two-Year College (1995).  During her thirty-year career as a vice-president, dean, faculty member and teacher in FL, MA, TX and VA, Maggie Culp became known as a creative problem solver, an effective change agent, and an exceptional speaker and leader. 

A nationally recognized leader in student affairs and an expert on institutional effectiveness and learning outcomes, Maggie Culp served on eighteen Southern Association Reaffirmation Teams (SACS), created a student affairs program recognized by SACS as a "model for the nation," designed an enrollment management/student success model used by many collegs across the country, led a major computer conversion (legacy to Datatel) that was labeled a "best practice" implementation, and was instrumental in building productive partnerships between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs.  The recipient of numerous state and national awards, Dr. Culp has motivated and educated thousands with her presentations at national and state conventions, designed and facilitated hundreds of workshops for educators and business leaders, and assisted over fifty colleges and universities to evaluate and redesign Student Affairs, identify programs and practices that increase student retention and program completion rates, implement student learning outcomes that reinforce college-wide academic learning outcomes, document using hard data the positive impact of Student Affairs on student achievement, build effective (and real) partnerships between Academic and Student Affairs, and create enrollment management/student success/assessment models for a new generation of students and faculty.  

Maggie Culp earned an M.A. in Counseling, an Ed.S. in Administration and Supervision, and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (with concentrations in Counseling Psychology, Research Methods, and Educational Leadership).  She is MBTI certified, TQM and Baldrige trained and has written extensively about assessment, building and leading teams, community colleges, applying the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to business and education, creating cultures of evidence, developing and measuring outcomes (developmental, learning and program), the importance of partnerships between Academic and Student Affairs, teaching styles, leadership styles, motivating students and faculty, strategic and operational planning, student affairs, conflict resolution techniques, and the intelligent use of technology.  She can be reached at maggieculp@aol.com.