Staff

Trudy Bers, Executive Director of Institutional Research, Curriculum, and Strategic Planning
tbers@oakton.edu • Personal Home Page
Trudy Bers, Ph.D., oversees the College's research and planning activities, as well as an eclectic and unusual portfolio of responsibilities in academic affairs. The author of more than 50 articles and book chapters and the editor of three issues of New Directions for Community Colleges, she serves on the editorial board of the Enrollment Management Journal. She also is a data facilitator for Achieving the Dream. She is the past president of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC), Illinois AIR, and National Council for Community College Research and Planning. The former chair of the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, she holds a Ph.D. and B.A. in political science from the University of Illinois-Urbana, an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern, and an M.A. in public law and government from Columbia University.

Marilyn Davis, Senior Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs
mdavis@oakton.edu
Marilyn Davis collaborates with faculty and state agencies to add and revise courses and curricula, and update the College Catalog.