Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College Online, a leader in career-focused adult higher education, today announced theappointment of Dr. Johnna Herrick-Phelps to its academic leadership team. As assistant provost, Herrick-Phelps will lead the College’s over 60 online academic programs, including associate, bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees; undergraduate and graduate certificates; and non-degree programs and courses.
Herrick-Phelps previously served in several academic leadership roles at Granite State College inConcord, New Hampshire, most recently as vice provost for academic affairs. Prior to that, she was amember of the administration at Springfield College, where she helped build the College’s online programfor two out-of-state campuses, among other accomplishments. Herrick-Phelps also served as adjunctfaculty for a number of other higher education institutions and consulted for public and privateorganizations in the areas of leadership development, executive coaching, change management, anddiversity in the workplace.
Herrick-Phelps spent nearly 20 years running her own consulting businesses. She earned her doctorate inhuman and organizational development systems and a master’s degree in human development fromFielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. She also has a master’s degree in organizationalmanagement and leadership, and a bachelor’s degree in human services from Springfield College.
“Johnna’s proven academic and organizational leadership, her in-depth understanding of the needs ofadult learners and the joys of working for their success, and her entrepreneurial imagination make her ahuge asset to Champlain College Online,” said Dr. Laurie Quinn, provost and senior vice president foracademics at Champlain College. “We look forward to having her talents at Champlain as we continue toenhance our portfolio of career-focused academic programs, expand our truED workforce developmentprogram partnerships, and grow our adult student population,” she added.
In her new role as assistant provost, Herrick-Phelps will oversee online undergraduate and graduateprogram faculty, quality assurance, e-learning, and academic advising. The academic portfolio she willmanage includes four broad disciplines: cybersecurity, information technology, healthcare and business.
“Joining Champlain allows me to combine all of my passions in one career,” said Herrick-Phelps. “I’mlooking forward to working at an institution that’s taken an entrepreneurial approach to adult educationand is leading the way in providing an affordable, high-quality online education for adult learners,” sheadded.
Herrick-Phelps is joining Champlain College Online just as it implements its previously announced50percent tuition reductionfor adult undergraduate degrees starting this fall.
About Champlain College Online
At the forefront of one of the most innovative, regionally accredited, not-for-profit colleges in the nation,Champlain College Online prides itself on a long history of providing career-focused education to adultlearners. One of the oldest online institutions in the United States, Champlain College Online wasestablished in 1993 by Champlain College, a non-profit private college founded in 1878 and offering acampus undergraduate experience in Burlington, Vermont.
Today, Champlain College Online is consistently ranked byU.S. News & World Reportas a leader in onlinehigher education and serves more than 3,000 students through more than 60 online undergraduate andgraduate degree programs and certificates in high-growth fields like cybersecurity, healthcareadministration and human resource management. Through the strategic alliance program known as truED,Champlain College Online has pioneered a bold reimagining of workforce development to createadditional opportunities for adults to further their education in Champlain College's award-winning onlineacademic programs aligned to needs in government and industry.
