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Published on: 8/24/2008
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Louise M. Williamson
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Louise M. WilliamsonVice President and Managing PrincipalLouise spent the bulk of her career (18 years) as a regional Program Officer for the Prudential Foundation, working with community-based organizations on the entire grant process—from proposal development to feasibility study to compliance auditing.She also has considerable experience in training and in organizational development.After leaving Prudential, Louise received an M.B.A. with an emphasis in international business, spending more than a year in Europe working with companies from the automotive, hospitality, energy, and pharmaceutical industries and with the European Union currency commission in Brussels.Co-founder of the Yardley Research Group and Managing Editor of The Journal for Higher Education Strategists, Louise is working on a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in higher education administration.Her dissertation, Determining Influencers in Distinguished Graduate Placement, is an investigation of the mission, character, and emphases of doctoral programs in nine fields of study at public research universities in the U.S. and the corresponding influence those factors impose on placement of doctoral graduates of those programs into academic program settings.