STEVEN ERIC LAYMON 716 Pine Hill Lane Charlottesville, Va

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1 EDUCATION STEVEN ERIC LAYMON 716 Pine Hill Lane Charlottesville, Va Ph.D. in Political Science (1999) UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois Dissertation: Political Transitions & Public Education in Cuba & Peru M.A. in International Relations (1988) UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois B.A. in International History and Political Science (1983) MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, Ohio CURRENT POSITION August 2015 University of Virginia to present School of Continuing and Professional Studies 104 Midmont Lane Charlottesville, Virginia Interim Dean, School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Part of University s senior leadership, reporting to Provost. Work collaboratively with colleagues to identify needs of school, its staff, faculty and students, and to assemble strategic and operational solutions to address those needs. Responsible for working with staff to improve net revenue from program operations, by enhancing enrollment, improving operational efficiency, and creating new programs. Responsible for enhancing student service and support, to improve student success, address gaps in support for student concerns ranging from sexual misconduct to mental illness to study habits. Responsible for creating strategies to improve the quality of instruction. This includes initiatives to recruit faculty, provide them with resources to improve their ability to teach adult learners, and reward them with rank and promotion. Responsible for enhancing the School s ability to deliver online programs to an expanding audience, both within the Commonwealth and beyond. Responsible for working with outreach and program administrative staff to deliver educational programs to Federal, state and law enforcement agencies. This includes efforts to address educational and credentialing needs of veterans. Responsible for collaboration with public officials and business community to design workforce investment strategies to create Virginia s 21 st Century workforce. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE August 2014 University of Virginia to August 2015 School of Continuing and Professional Studies 104 Midmont Lane Charlottesville, Virginia Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Services. Responsible for development, management and evaluation of two undergraduate degree programs, business and professional certificates, design and strategic expansion of corporate training and outreach, and management of non-credit programs offered by the School. Responsible for oversight of all student service operations.

2 December 2004 to August 2014 Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies 1427 East 60th Street Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Programs. Responsible for development, management and evaluation of business and professional certificates, design and strategic expansion of corporate training and outreach, and management of for-credit programs offered by the Graham School. Responsible for annual program revenues in excess of three million dollars and operating budget in the range of five- to six-million dollars. Part of senior management team reporting to Dean. Supervise the work of eight Program Managers in the division and five support staff. Oversee the design of curriculum, delivery of student services, and hiring of instructors, including ninety part-time instructors and ten full-time, tenured faculty from other departments. Expanded focus on delivery of student services to nontraditional students, opening up access to career events, university resources, and alumni privileges. Played central role in launch of the s first online programs. Guided efforts to expand internationally, including outreach in Europe, China and India. Partnered with state and municipal officials to enroll qualified unemployed applicants using state educational vouchers. Responsible for corporate and governmental partnerships including collaboration with new state-funded Biotechnology hub called Matter, created to incubate biotech start-ups. Engineered relationships with Chicago area firms to be a preferred training provider. Worked with marketing directors and program staff to increase enrollment. For three years served as Academic Director of State Department-funded Institute for the Study of Democracy, Leadership, and Service in the United States. RESIDENTIAL HOUSING EXPERIENCE August 2006 to July 2013 Office of Undergraduate Student Housing 6030 S. Ellis Avenue, Suite 266 Resident Head with wife, serving community of 100 undergraduate residents in student resident hall. Responsible for community life, discipline, health and welfare of residents, dispute resolution, program budgeting, and supervision of Resident Assistants and Orientation Aides. Helped students devise strategies for work/life balance in demanding educational environment. Tireless advocate for students. Worked to connect students with wide range of university resources. Served on multiple occasions on committees designed to address student discipline questions, examine food service options, and to contribute ideas to designs for the next generation of residential facilities.

3 ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE August 2000 Columbia University to December 2004 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 102 Low Memorial Library 525 W. 116th Street New York, New York Assistant Dean for M. A. Programs and Director Liberal Studies Master of Arts Program. Oversaw operation of nineteen departmental and seventeen interdisciplinary Master of Arts programs. Responsible for program budgets, student affairs, curriculum planning, minority recruiting, and alumni relations. Managed work of support staff. Directed admissions, faculty hiring, and student services for the Liberal Studies Master of Arts program. June 2009 to present Department of Political Science/Graham School Summer Session Graham School of General Studies 1427 East 60th Street Lecturer in Political Science. Designed and taught annual summer course on Constructing the Nation, a rigorous overview of the literature, theory, and historical examples of nationalism as a platform for the organization of society and collectivities. March 2000 to June 2000 Northwestern University Department of Political Science 601 University Place Evanston, Illinois Lecturer in Political Science. Designed and taught two upper-level undergraduate courses, Introduction to Nationalism and Global Society: International Relations of Populations at Risk. March 1999 to February 2000 College of the 1116 East 59th Street Lecturer for Power Identity and Resistance and Wealth Power and Virtue. Courses focused on the problems inherent in structuring social relations to better attain equality. July 1996 to October 1998 Committee on International Relations 5828 South University Avenue Preceptor a n d i n s t r u c t o r for the Committee on International Relations, an interdisciplinary graduate program. Read and evaluated M.A. theses. Tutored students in social scientific writing. Scheduled speaker series. Handled program's student services and alumni relations. Advised students on career issues. Managed Committee s university administrative affairs. Coordinated effort to expand program's focus to capture wider field of analytical issues.

4 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE September 1992 to Marvin Zonis & Associates May South University Avenue Analyst and research associate for consulting firm and bi-weekly world affairs newsletter for global investors. Focus on international security and politics. June 1994 to July 1995 Center for Health Administration Studies 969 East 60th Street Researcher and staff-manager for international World Health Organization study of oral health. Reviewed social scientific findings of study teams, wrote and edited descriptive chapters, coordinated work of Chicago team. September 1987 to June 1995 Department of Political Science 5828 South University Avenue Chicago, Illinois Research Assistant to Dr. Jon Elster. Coordinated research staff studying a broad range of topics relating to distributive choice in public policy. Project coordinator for multinational Local Justice project, designed to study how societies make choices in the distribution of scarce goods. October 1990 to September 1992 Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe Law School 1111 East 60th Street Project Coordinator. Maintained correspondence with overseas researchers. Collected archival materials. Prepared grant applications resulting in support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Soros Foundation. Coordinated conferences. June 1990 to May 1992 American Bar Foundation 750 North Lakeshore Drive Chicago, Illinois Research Assistant to Dr. Keith Hylton, Northwestern Law School. Coordinated research on the law and economics of workers' compensation in the U.S.A. PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED PAPERS Corporate Training Programs Offer Institutions the Chance to Fill Empty Seats. The Evolllution (Summer 2012). Building Social Capital with Great Books. Presented at Annual Meeting of the University Continuing Education Association, New Orleans, March Baseball Alone: Cuban War of Independence and Social Capital. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2002.

5 Political Transitions and the Uses of Public Education: The Case of Cuba. Prepared for the Workshop on Comparative Politics and Historical Sociology, Chicago, October Cuba Buries Che. IPE: International Political Economy, Vol. 4, No. 19 (October 1997). Cuba s Economic Reforms and the Future of Cuban Society. IPE: International Political Economy, Vol. 3, No. 10 (May 1996). Look! I'm All Glue-soaked and Rag-tag: I'm an Authentic Fanzine! The Baffler, No. 6 (Winter 1995). The Internalization Paradox and Workers' Compensation. Prepared with Keith N. Hylton. Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Fall 1992). Quotas in Subsidized Housing: Disparate Treatment to Achieve Racially-Mixed Housing. Prepared for the International Conference on Sociological and Philosophical Approaches to Local Justice, Florence, Italy, June The Use of Race as a Criterion in the Allocation of Scarce Goods (Working Paper #10 in the Local Justice Series). Prepared with P. Conley, J.M. Dennis, and S. Romm for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April AWARDS AND GRANTS University Continuing Education Association Award of Excellence for Creative Programs for the Leadership Arts Certificate Program MacArthur Foundation/Center for Latin American Studies Cuban Scholarly Exchange Grant 1996/97.

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