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· Implemented strategic planning with graduate, research, and land-grant mission.
· Created thirteen research centers for regional economic development.
· Created a nationally prominent manufacturing outreach program.
· Secured funding for 200-acre Knowledge Park at Penn State Erie.
· Secured funding for $30 million Research and Economic Development Center.
· Raised approximately $65 million for endowments and physical facilities.
· Secured support for nationally competitive salaries.
· Created a School of Business with graduate programs.
· Created a School of Engineering and Engineering Technology with graduate programs.
· Created a School of Science and a School of Humanities and Social Sciences with additional baccalaureate programs.
· Increased quality of student body.
· More than doubled enrollment to 3,800.
· Enhanced diversity of student body, faculty, and staff through targeted recruitment, retention, and programmatic initiatives.
· Created an Honors Program and received approval for the Schreyer Honors College, the only campus college to have a four- year Schreyer Honors Program.
· Enhanced out-of-classroom environment to support academic mission and promote a living-learning environment, e.g., created a national award-winning speakers series, a world-class music-at-noon series, a human relations series, an integrated counseling center, and an honors interest house.
· Added forty new student organizations, created academic and service initiatives for Greek organizations, and established a comprehensive intramural program.
· More than doubled the number of NCAA Division III athletic programs with Title IX compliance.
· Helped to found the Allegheny Mountain College Conference for athletics.
· Secured two campus master plans for physical development.

Certificate Harvard Institute for Educational Management, 1978
D.M.A. University of Southern California, 1971
M.M. Baylor University, 1964
B.M. Baylor University, 1962
B.M.E. Baylor University, 1961

John and Geraldine (Gerrie) Lilley have four grown children and two grandchildren.