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Robin Menschenfreund

Robin Menschenfreund


Robin Menschenfreund

Dr. Robin Menschenfreund is Vice President for Educational Services and Quality Improvement at Zane State College, a two-year technical college in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio. She has held the position of vice president for eight years. She began her thirty-year career in two-year colleges as a dental hygiene instructor, and along the way has held positions as a program supervisor, division dean, and campus dean. In her roles as campus dean and vice president, she has had responsibilities for academic services, student services, and workforce development. She has been involved in continuous quality improvement initiatives for the past fifteen years and currently provides leadership for the Zane State College Strategic Plan, academic and academic support assessments, and the College's AQIP initiatives. She co-chaired the Foundations of Excellence initiative for the College, and she has integrated Foundations of Excellence with AQIP Action Projects and the Systems Portfolio.

Dr. Robin, as she is known to her colleagues and students, has provided leadership in numerous first-year experience initiatives to include implementing QUEST (Quality Experience for Students' Team), implementing College Success Strategies as a freshmen orientation course, and providing Carl Perkins Grant dollars that support “up front” efforts to help at-risk students succeed. She has been involved with Zane State College's Achieving the Dream initiative, and she co-chaired the institution's Foundations of Excellence initiative. She has integrated Foundations of Excellence with AQIP Action Projects and the AQIP Systems Portfolio.

She holds a certificate in dental hygiene from the University of Pennsylvania, a bachelor's in health science, a master's degree in education from the University of Kentucky, and a doctorate in education from the University of Nebraska.