Margaret Sullivan, Interim Regional Chancellor

Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan, PhD, has extensive leadership experience in public and private universities. As a consultant, she has helped more than 200 institutions and university
systems in the southeastern United States as well as Ecuador, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Virgin Islands.

Sullivan has more than 15 years of experience in higher education administration, during a career that began with a fellowship to study special education at Georgia State University. Sullivan transitioned from art instruction and into school administration before pursuing doctoral studies in educational leadership.

Sullivan spent 11 years as an administrator at Georgia State University, serving as Assistant Vice President of Academic Services, Assistant to the President and Planning Associate. Brenau University selected her as Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1989 and she served as department head and chairman for graduate studies. At Brenau, she was a professor of Education and Psychology as well as its academic leader until 1993 for its undergraduate women’s college and co-educational bachelor’s and master’s programs.

In 1993, she became a full-time consultant in higher education administration, leadership, evaluation and accreditation. She is President of the Southeastern Consulting Group in Higher Education, and before that was Director of the Consulting Network of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. She has previously consulted with the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in preparing the institution for initial accreditation with the SACS, Commission on Colleges.

She earned her doctorate degree in Educational Leadership and her Master’s of Education degree in Special Education from Georgia State University. Additionally, she completed post doctoral studies in Educational Administration.

Sullivan was an active member of numerous advisory boards, including the National Association of State Advisory Boards on Vocational Education, the National Subcommittee on National Policy Analysis and Chairman of the Georgia Council on Vocational Technical Education. She has written articles, book chapters, monographs, and reports related to higher education accreditation, academic planning and evaluation, information processing, learning disabilities, mental retardation and deaf services.

Margaret Sullivan, PhD Vita (.pdf)