Scott Dalrymple, Ph.D., M.B.A. Education Ph.D. - English, University at Buffalo (1997) Dissertation: Capital Fictions: The Business Novel in America, 1880-1905 M.B.A., University at Buffalo (1991)  Marketing concentration  Voted top graduate student by Marketing faculty (Kahn Award) M.A. - English, University at Buffalo (1989)  Voted top graduate student by English faculty (Butler Prize) B.A. - English, SUNY College at Geneseo (1987)     Academic Experience EXCELSIOR COLLEGE, Albany, NY (Jan. 2010 - present) Not-for-profit college with 37,000 students in online, competency-based, and classroom-based programs. Dean, School of Liberal Arts & Founding Dean, School of Public Service  Responsible for all programs in humanities, social science, and natural science disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels  Founded School of Public Service to house criminal justice, public administration, and military studies programs  Manage multi-million dollar budget and a geographically distributed workforce, including hundreds of faculty members across the U.S.  Increased course credits taken by approx. 50% in four years  Designed robust student retention program with multiple strategies  Oversee all course development efforts, including scores of new online courses/major revisions each year; added significantly more multimedia to courses  Proven commitment to recruitment and retention of diverse staff and student body  Developed Excelsior’s first study abroad program (designed for an underserved population of female students wishing to study overseas)  Principal Investigator on Excelsior's first-ever Gates Foundation grant ($168,000 to test adaptive learning software in STEM courses)  Oversee $580,000 FIPSE and $635,000 Kresge Foundation grants to develop awardwinning Online Writing Lab (www.excelsior.edu/owl)  Veteran of three successful 10-year accreditation reviews at three institutions (with North Central & Middle States)  Peer Reviewer for New York State Dept. of Education's accreditation arm  Graduate, Institute for Management & Leadership in Education - Harvard University Dalrymple, page 2 HARTWICK COLLEGE, Oneonta, NY (Aug. 2003 – Jan. 2010) Private liberal arts college with traditional student base. Chair and Associate Professor, Dept. of Business Administration & Accounting  Tenured chair of largest dept. on campus, graduating approx. 20% of College majors  Responsible for departmental assessment and accreditation activities  Responsible for departmental budget; faculty and staff hiring and performance reviews; and curriculum development in all Business and Accounting fields  Taught courses in Global Business, Marketing, Introduction to Business, Statistical Analysis in Operations, Fiction Writing  Named Faculty Scholar-in-Residence (Wandersee Scholar) 2005-2006  Member of Academic Standards Committee, Campus Safety & Security Committee (chair), Enrollment Management Committee of the Board of Trustees (faculty rep), Presidential Taskforce on Student Retention, Individual Student Program Committee SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE, Winfield, KS (1999 - 2003) Private liberal arts college with traditional student base and adult-serving professional studies centers. Beech Professor of Business Administration, Department Chair, & MBA Director  Chair of Business, Accounting, & Economics Dept.; responsible for curriculum, program marketing, and assessment, as well as faculty hiring, supervision, and development  Designed, shepherded through expedited accreditation review, and directed new MBA program for working adults (offered at main campus and satellite locations)  Taught a variety of Management and Integrative Studies courses, including Strategic Management, Marketing Management, and Honors seminars  Member: Curriculum Committee, Faculty Concerns Committee, and Professional Studies Academic Council; Chaired numerous successful tenure-track faculty searches   Business Experience KOCH INDUSTRIES, Wichita, KS (1997 - 1999) $40 billion private corporation with significant international holdings in energy, chemicals. Internal Consultant & Facilitator  Member of small strategic think-tank charged with developing corporate culture in multinational firm (2nd largest private company in the US)  Facilitated seminars in entrepreneurship, strategic planning, and leadership NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY, Buffalo, NY (1991 - 1996) Integrated energy firm with $1+ billion in revenue and international holdings. as Sr. Analyst, Finance Dept.: (‘94-’96)  Lead financial analyst on numerous projects including international mergers & acquisitions  Analyzed financial derivatives, including interest rate swaps and futures contracts as Sr. Analyst, Marketing Research Dept.: (‘91-’93)  Designed & implemented numerous studies, both quantitative (mail, telephone) and qualitative (focus groups, executive interviews)  Wrote Annual Report to Shareholders, press releases, executive speeches Dalrymple, page 3   Scholarly & Creative Work Books Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader, with John K. Clemens (New York: AMACOM Books - American Management Association, 2005). Translated into Korean in 2006, Russian in 2007. Playing Through: An Entrepreneurial Success Story, with Tom Devlin and Randy Scholfield (Wichita State University Center for Entrepreneurship, 2003). Building Wichita: The History of Star Lumber Co., 1939-1999 (Wichita State University Center for Entrepreneurship, 1999). Peer-Reviewed Articles “A Glass Half Full: Capitalist Ethics in the Novels of Will Payne,” Essays in Economic & Business History, vol. XXIII (2005), pp. 55-65 (awarded Saltow Award for Best Essay by a new contributor). "Central Plains Entrepreneurs: the Rise and Fall of Goldsmith's Inc., 1878-2003." Kansas History v. 26, no. 4 (Winter 2003/2004): 239-251. “John Hay’s Revenge: Anti-Labor Novels, 1880-1905,” Business and Economic History, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Fall 1999), pp. 133-42. “Just War, Pure and Simple: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and the American Civil War,” American Literary Realism, 29:1 (Fall 1996): pp. 1-11. “Demonic Therapy: Reading the Holy Word in the Mushroom Cloud,” in George K. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds., Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Fantasy and Science Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 1993), pp. 145-154. Published Fiction “Queen of the Kanguellas,” Realms of Fantasy, December 2010. Awarded magazine's 2010 Readers Choice Award. "An Open Letter to Earth," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug. 2008. "Enfant Terrible," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2008. Selected Presentations "Confessions of an Online Dean," Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) annual meeting (forthcoming - January 2014). "Adaptive Learning: Effectively Integrating Technology into the Classroom," panel discussion moderated by Gates Foundation, EDUCAUSE 2013 (October 2013). "Serious Games for Less Serious Students," opening remarks at Serious Gaming Conference, Albany, NY, May 2013. “Roger Ebert, Underwriters Laboratories, and the Future of College Rankings,” WCET Annual Conference, La Jolla, CA, Nov. 2010. Dalrymple, page 4 “Beyond Accreditation: Toasters, Junk Bonds, and Rotten Tomatoes,” Sloan-C Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2010. "Michelangelo's Secret: What Leaders Can Learn from Great Art," International Conference on Business & Economics, Univ. of Florence, Italy, Oct. 2008. “The New Face of Corporate Training,” Leadership Executive Summit, Training ’06, Orlando FL, March 2006. “The Man Who Could Do Anything: The Amazing True Story of the World’s Last Renaissance Man,” Hartwick Faculty Lecture Series, February 2006. “Business as Adventure: Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster, and the Creation of an American Literary Genre,” Economic & Business Historical Society Conference, High Point, NC, April 2005. “Practical Management Applications of Temporal Theories,” The Future of Time in Management and Organizations Conference, INSEAD School of Business, Fontainebleau, France, July 2004. “The Economist as Novelist: Will Payne and the Ethics of Capitalism,” Economic & Business Historical Society Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 2004. “Business in Popular American Fiction,” Business History Conference, March 1999, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Awards and Honors 2010 Readers Choice Award, Realms of Fantasy magazine (for "Queen of the Kanguellas"). Wandersee Scholar in Residence, Hartwick College, 2005-2006. 2005 James Saltow Award, from the Economic & Business Historical Society, for best essay by a new contributor to Essays in Economic & Business History. Beech Professor of Business Administration (endowed chair), Southwestern College, 1999-2003. Sydney N. Kahn Award for MBA Student Excellence in Marketing, University at Buffalo School of Management. Butler Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research, University at Buffalo English Dept.