Corporate Staff Bio

Dr. Thomas J. Wyly
Collegiate Enterprise Solutions
Vice President

THOMAS J. WYLY has more than thirty years of experience as a faculty member, scholar, senior administrator, and consultant. Among his consulting specialties are strategic planning and competitive positioning, peer institution comparative analysis, international and multicultural education, and faculty development. He is a Fordham University alumnus and University of Pennsylvania humanities Ph.D. who taught at Penn and served in the President’s and Provost’s offices there. He also served for fourteen years as chief strategy officer and vice president at Bentley College in suburban Boston, during the period of the institution’s greatest growth and development. Still active as a Renaissance and Reformation scholar, Tom has held post-doctoral fellowships of various kinds at Princeton, Yale, Northwestern, Ohio State, the Claremont Graduate University, and Saint Deiniol’s in Wales, and is a graduate of the Harvard Institute for Educational Management. He has served as chief higher education consultant to the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and worked with anti-apartheid and human rights leader the Reverend Leon H. Sullivan as founding director of the Global Sullivan Principles, an international human rights initiative for higher education institutions. Tom has also offered workshops and presentations for a variety of national higher education organizations, including CIC, NASULGC, ACC&U, UNCF, CUPA-HR, AJC&U, and others.