Jeff Marsee, PhD

Management Consultant

Jeff Marsee, Ph.D., is a higher-education consultant, presenter, retired college president, author, and former Fulbright Scholar to Russia. He earned Economics degrees from the University of Southern California (BA) and California State University at Long Beach (MA). His Ph.D. in Community College Leadership (Higher-Education Administration) was awarded by the University of Texas, at Austin. During Dr. Marsee’s career, he worked in the non-profit and for-profit higher education sectors as an instructor, chief financial officer, provost, and president. He also spent nearly a decade as a higher-education consultant, working with college stakeholders to improve processes that impacted budgets, operational efficiencies, staff retention, and on-time graduation rates. The culmination of his experiences and research has resulted in the writing of Finish in Four: Challenging College Norms to Improve Graduation Rates, Austin Macauley Publishers, New York (2020). Dr. Marsee has presented at CBMI for four decades, sharing his experiences as a career "change agent" while working and consulting in change resistant environments.