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Dan Cayse currently serves as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Entrepreneurial Development at Cincinnati State Technical & Community College. Since joining Cincinnati State in 1974, he has provided leadership in cooperative education for 35 years. He has twice served as Dean of Business Technologies. During his combined 20 years of service as Dean, he has made major contributions to his division and the college enhancing and expanding the cooperative education program. As Dean, he was responsible for the academic affairs and co-op program for 24 Associate Degree Programs and 14 Certificates for the Business Technologies Division. Under his leadership, the Business Technologies Division developed a nationally recognized academic and cooperative model that has lead to strategic partnerships with companies such as Walt Disney World, Procter & Gamble and The Kroger Company.

Dan has also played a significant role on state, region and national levels. He served as the Cooperative Education and Internship Association President in 1989-1990, as well as two terms as the Vice President of Finance. He has rejoined the Cooperative Education and Internship Association Board and is currently the Executive Vice President of Finance and will serve as the 2010-2011 President. In 2005, CEIA honored Dan as the recipient of the Dean Herman Schneider Educator of the Year Award. On the regional level, Cayse developed the financial reporting system for the Midwest Cooperative Education Association and as a Certified Public Accountant, provided financial audits and non-profit consultation services. He was recognized as MCEIA’s Educator of the Year is 2004. The Ohio Cooperative Education Association elected Dan Cayse to the position of President in 1986 where he expanded state membership and fostered the expansion of an endowment for scholarships and research to maintain itself as one of the largest state co-op associations in the country. OCEA honored Dan Cayse as its Educator of the Year in 1990.

In other professional contributions to cooperative education, Dan has been a consultant for numerous colleges and corporations as well as having made over 100 presentations throughout the United States. He currently serves as a representative to the National Commission for Cooperative Education and is a contributor to Measures of Excellence, published by the National Commission. Other involvement includes representing the United States in Canadian co-op initiatives, testifying before Congress during the Title VIII funding era and being instrumental with the efforts to bring about the co-op national ad campaign.

Perhaps more significant than anything else have been Dan Cayse’s effect on the people in the field of cooperative education. He has consistently supported his faculty’s involvement in professional activities and has provided inspiration to countless co-op practitioners across the United States. A quiet, humble, unpretentious leader, Dan not only has been willing to share his knowledge with others, but has fostered the professional development of those who have been fortunate enough the work with him. He can effectively articulate the academic role of co-op in students’ educational programs, while maneuvering through the politics of academic institutions.

At Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Peggy Harrier is Acting Dean for the Business Technologies Division, where she has management responsibilities for 50 fulltime faculty and staff, and over 150 adjunct instructors. She also supervises a mandatory co-op component for 20 majors. Cincinnati State College maintains the largest co-op program among two year schools in the US and remains in the top ten of all co-op programs in the country. Cincinnati State averages 3,000 placements per year with over 600 co-op employers and 8,500 degree-seeking students. Having worked as a co-op coordinator early in her career at the college, she is also a tenured faculty member teaching Business Law, Ethics, Co-op Seminar and Professional Practices. As a licensed Real Estate Broker, Peggy has experience in both industry and education. She earned a BA degree from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, as well as a Master of Education degree from Xavier University. She has been associated with Cincinnati State Technical and Community College since 1984.

Peggy’s involvement with CEIA began in 1985 and continues to this day. She served as a regional representative in the late 1980s and returned to the CEIA Board in 2000 where she has served the Association as a board member the past 9 years. Accomplishments to note include, preparing and distributing national state of the profession survey, leading the reorganization efforts for the Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships, serving as President 2004-05 and chairing two conferences, including co-chairing the 2006 centennial celebration. Peggy Harrier was instrumental in securing a collaborative agreement for the production of the Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships with WACE, NCCE and CAFCE. She also has initiated strategic partnerships with WACE and NCCE for projects being conducted in the field and has assisted CEIA with the development of a new, interactive website. Finally, Peggy is a CEIA National Academy trainer, specializing in quality improvement processes.

Peggy served on the Midwest Cooperative Education and Internship Association Board for 15 years. She was elected President in 1996-97 and was named Educator of the Year in 2002. She also was a member of the Ohio Cooperative Education Association Board from 1984 to 1991, serving as President in1989-90. The OCEA honored Peggy Harrier as their Educator of the Year in 1991.

Peggy Harrier has served the co-op and internship community for 25 years. Her success in developing strategic partnerships with NCCE, WACE and corporate partners such as P&G, Walt Disney World, Cintas and Kroger, has demonstrated her ability to leverage these relationships to the benefit of all professionals in our community.

Marilyn Mayo is recently retired from IBM, where she was the program manager of the Cooperative Education and Internship program. During her last 13 years with the company, she was aligned with the IBM university recruiting and relations organization within Human Resources. She was responsible for the success of the IBM student employment programs and was focused on providing a pipeline to university hires, process improvements, hiring strategies and measurements.

Marilyn currently is on the chair person for the Cooperative Education and Internship Association 2010 National Conference and has held several positions within the board of directors. She is also an active member of the North Carolina Cooperative Education Association. Marilyn attended the University of Maryland and majored in general business.

Rodney is equally comfortable as a business consultant in the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, or as a counseling psychotherapist. Rodney came to the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort from Right Management Consultants where his primary responsibility was organizational development, consulting, and executive career development. His clients include organizations such as NASA, Westinghouse, AT&T, Darden, Sears, and PepsiCo. Prior to working with Right Management, Rodney was a partner in his own counseling and consulting practice at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. Rodney is noted for executive facilitation, career development and coaching, and psychological therapy and career assessment.

At the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort, Rodney was both a contributor and manager at the Disney University in Instructional Systems Design. He authored the Organizational Leadership and Marketing U courses which were recommended for college and university credit by the American Council on Education. In addition to developing faculty relations at numerous college and universities for the College Educational Program he also instructs students in the classroom. Frequently he was a guest lecturer on at over 50 colleges and universities. Rodney often presents at a wide variety of university conferences, such as The New England Transfer Association, The National Society of Experiential Education and the SUNY Career Services Conference.

Presently, Rodney leads the FPL University as Dean and Director of Learning and Development The role of the FPL Group University team has continued to grow with the addition of Performance Management, Talent Assessment, Senior Leadership Development, Organizational Change, Workplace Development and Employee Development. The Group U team has seen key successes in the role out of Generating Business Results, The FPL Nuclear Leadership Supervisory Development Academy and the Workplace Pipeline agreements with Miami Dade College, Indian River College and University of South Florida., Performance Management, Talent Assessment, Organizational Development and Employee Development in Juno Beach Florida. Rodney plays a key role in the integration of academia and industry. He is President of Cooperative Education and Internship Association and a board member of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Rodney is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.