Boyd Bradshaw, Ed.D.
Dr. Boyd Bradshaw is the Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) for Enrollment Management and Chief Enrollment Officer at IUPUI. Dr. Bradshaw has 20+ years of extensive experience devoted to the specialized field of enrollment management. Throughout his tenure as an enrollment manager, he has consistently maximized the enrollment potential of the institutions he has served while improving the incoming class’s academic profile. He offers extensive experience in student recruitment planning, student retention, enrollment marketing and communications, as well as enrollment technologies.
The Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Chief Enrollment Officer is a senior leadership position reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer. The AVC serves as a member of the Council of Deans and chairs the Enrollment Management Advisory Council. As the Chief Enrollment Officer, the AVC is responsible for the formulation and implementation of the strategic enrollment management plan for three campuses of Indiana University - Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Columbus.
Jay Gladden, Ph.D.
Dr. Jay Gladden leads the IUPUI Division of Undergraduate Education as associate chancellor for undergraduate education, dean of University College, and acting dean of Honors College. He provides guidance and leadership for a variety of curricular and co-curricular campus-wide student success programs that serve students from orientation through graduation. He is a tireless advocate for utilizing active and engaged learning strategies to ensure equitable access to high-impact practices.
From 2009 to 2017, Dr. Gladden served as the dean of the School of Physical Education and Tourism Management, where he strategically increased student support, retention, and conferred degrees.
Before coming to IUPUI, Dr. Gladden was associate dean at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the Sport Management faculty. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from DePauw University in 1988, his master’s degree in sport management from The Ohio State University in 1991, and his doctorate in sport management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997.
Michele Hansen, Ph.D.
Dr. Michele J. Hansen serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRDS) at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. IRDS is a comprehensive institutional research office where members are engaged in institutional research, advanced statistical analyses, survey research, program evaluation, student learning assessment, program and administrative reviews, and data support for strategic enrollment management. Dr. Hansen’s primary research interests are in the areas of learning outcomes assessment and program evaluation methods, understanding the effectiveness of interventions to enhance retention and academic success of undergraduate and graduate students (applying social psychology theories to higher education), survey research methods, and incremental and large-scale change management. Dr. Hansen received her baccalaureate degree in psychology from Michigan State University and master’s and doctoral degrees in social psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
Kathy Johnson, Ph.D.
Dr. Kathy Johnson serves as Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer at IUPUI. She is a professor of psychology and has previously served as Dean of University College and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, where she led the creation of a Division of Undergraduate Education as well as a number of initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of the undergraduate experience while also improving on-time graduation rates.
Dr. Johnson is trained as a cognitive developmental psychologist and has published extensively in scientific journals in areas related to expertise acquisition and concept development, serving as PI or Co-PI on a number of grants awarded through the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health.
Nationally, she serves as president for the Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO), on the Executive Committee for the APLU Council on Academic Affairs, and as a Fellow with Complete College America.
Eric Weldy, Ed.D
Dr. Eric Weldy joined the Division of Student Affairs at IUPUI in January 2017 as vice chancellor. Prior to coming to IUPUI, he served as the vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Northern Illinois University (NIU).
Dr. Weldy’s experience in student affairs spans 25 years. In his role at NIU, he reorganized enrollment management, including undergraduate admissions and financial aid and scholarship functions, to improve business operations and address the university’s decade-long enrollment decline. He worked to increase student retention, boosted staff training, and instituted the university’s first 2-day summer orientation program. His background includes positions in residence hall management, minority recruiting and support, fundraising, and admissions.
Other administrative roles held by Dr. Weldy include associate vice president for student affairs at Florida State University, associate vice chancellor for academic support and student life at University of Minnesota Duluth, and assistant dean of students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
