Mary Butcher
Educational Advocate | Community Builder | Coach & Mentor | Program Manager | Innovative Problem Solver
- Role
- First Year Experience (Fye) Program Manager at Green River College
- Location
- Auburn, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mary Butcher
Strategic Program Manager & Developer and Mentoring Expert with years of experience in Higher Education. Designed and implemented department wide signature program serving 850 new students annually and employing 85 student mentors. Collaborated across campus with Diversity, Advising, and Instruction to meet identified needed outcomes for new students. Lead Peer Mentoring in classrooms with Student Success award from Gates Grant. This created mentoring opportunities for an additional 300 students per year and resulted in a 93% satisfaction rate among participants. Awarded Innovation Funds to further develop Peer Mentoring opportunities.Led process improvement through overhaul of outdated student processing system for High School Completion, moving it to a multi-user platform allowing advisors, program staff and marketers to be up to date on student needs. Subject Matter Expert consulting regularly with colleges and universities across the country on mentoring, high school completion, and transitional student success. Advise campus grant writer on integration of mentoring into specific program areas. Focused cross cultural communicator serving students from 60 different countries. Designed materials and communication to be accessible across languages and cultures through use of learning outcomes and core program values. Led Participatory Governance body on campus as College Council Chair curing time of great unrest on campus. Required high level of sensitivity to stakeholder needs and communication styles. Empowered student group on council by achieving public forums with college President and Ruffalo Noel Levitz student satisfaction survey. This brought forward the student voice when tumult was drowning it out.
Experience
First Year Experience (Fye) Program Manager
Sep 2024 — Present · Auburn, WA, US
Education
Green River College
Bachelor's degree, Marketing and Business
2017 — 2018
Skills
- Intercultural Communication
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Public Speaking
- Microsoft Office
- Event Planning
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Community Outreach
- Microsoft Word
- Higher Education
- Student Affairs
- Microsoft Excel
- Powerpoint
- Research
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