Please join TDR and our panel of experts as we discuss the following and more:
• The Evolving Higher Education Landscape: Enrollment, funding, and changing student needs
• Workforce Readiness: Aligning academic programs with employer expectations
• Industry Partnerships: Collaboration opportunities between colleges and business
• Innovation & Delivery Models: Technology, online learning, and new credential pathways
• Policy & Funding Considerations: Issues shaping the future of higher education
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Thursday, Apr 23, 2026
10:00 AM : 11:00 AM EDT
Hung-bin Ding
Associate Dean of Academics, Professor of Management
Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business
Hung-bin Ding is an Associate Professor and Chair, Management and International Business in the Sellinger School of Business and Management of Loyola University Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in management from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include family business, entrepreneurship, and corporate environmental responsibility. One of Hung-bin’s recent research projects examines the development of green innovations in emerging economies. Last year, Hung-bin co-organized the award winning panel discussion on Corporate Sustainability in the Emerging Economies in the 2011 AOM. He currently serves on the review board of the Journal of Enterprising Culture and the Journal of Small Business Management. Hung-bin has taught strategic management and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels in the U.S. and Taiwan.
Dr. Vickie Mazer
Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, McDaniel College
Dr. Vickie Mazer is a senior leader with significant experience in higher education and healthcare. She currently serves as Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at McDaniel College, where she provides strategic leadership for graduate and professional programs and drives innovation aligned with regional and statewide workforce needs. She has a proven record of advancing graduate education, workforce-aligned academic programs, and institutional growth.
Since joining McDaniel in 2020, Dr. Mazer’s leadership has contributed to strong graduate enrollment growth and significant program expansion. Her work includes the development of Health Sciences programs in Nursing, Occupational Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology, as well as the expansion and revision of graduate programs in Education and Business and other professional disciplines.
Previously, Dr. Mazer spent 13 years as Director of Graduate Services at a comprehensive public higher education institution, overseeing all aspects of graduate program administration—from admissions through graduation—across two campuses and online modalities.
She also has more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in healthcare management. Her background includes five years on the executive leadership team of a Federally Qualified Health Center, where she served as Director of Development and Project Director/Site Director. Her role included the development and implementation of a Federally Qualified Health Care Center with two locations providing primary and OB/GYN care. She also held leadership roles within a regional health system as Director of Community Health and Outreach and Director of Marketing and Community Relations, leading initiatives focused on population health, community engagement, and organizational growth.
Dr. Mazer holds a Doctorate of Educational Leadership from Frostburg State University with a specialization in Higher Education Leadership.
Dr. Maarten Pereboom
Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts
Professor of History, Salisbury University
Dr. Maarten Pereboom is dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and Professor of History at Salisbury University. He earned his Ph.D. at Yale University, where he studied the history of 20th-century international relations, focusing on the United States and Europe. His first book, Democracies at the Turning Point: Britain, France and the End of the Postwar Order, 1928 – 1933, published in 1995, won the “Outstanding Academic Book” distinction from Choice Magazine. In 1998, he won SU’s distinguished faculty award. He served as assistant dean (1996-98), associate dean (1998-2001), and interim dean of the Fulton School (2001-2002), then as chair of the History Department (2002-2008). His second book, History and Film: Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past was published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall in January 2010. As dean, he continues to teach courses on World War Two, the Holocaust and the Cold War. In 2017 he participated in the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators’ Seminar in India. In 2018 he received the SU President’s Diversity Award. From 2013-2022, he served on the board of Maryland Humanities, where he also served on the executive committee and chaired the grants committee. In 2024, he completed the Leadership Maryland executive leadership class.