Dr. Jared Tippets has worked in both the private sector and higher education and currently serves as Vice President for Student Affairs at Southern Utah University. His professional career has been spent focusing on retention, completion, and student success efforts as well as organizational change on both the academic affairs and student affairs side of the academy.  Prior to SUU he worked at Purdue University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Utah Valley University. Dr. Tippets holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems (Utah State University), a M.A. in Higher Education Administration (University of Missouri-Columbia), and a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Leadership (University of Kentucky). His research and professional interests are in retention and completion efforts along with leadership and organizational change strategies.