Sandra Doran

Sandra currently serves as the New England Director of the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, where she is a respected expert on eLearning initiatives. Ms. Doran is working to fully develop a platform for six states within the NEBHE Compact to enter into the reciprocity agreements for authorizing individual colleges and universities to provide postsecondary education courses and programs through on-line or other distance modalities.

Ms. Doran also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. Sandy had previously served as the CEO of Castle Point Learning Systems, a Stevens Institute educational technology start-up. The company developed a SAAS platform which provides an instructional infrastructure for calculus, enabling students and teachers to develop a more robust foundation in higher-level mathematics.

Sandy is passionate about the power of transformational educational tools to accelerate learning. Technological advancement has significantly outpaced the capacity at which educational institutions can accept and implement these new tools and it is therefore essential that comprehensive programs be developed to fully integrate and support these tools in the learning environment. Ms. Doran believes that bridging the current gap by integrating technological tools into the curriculum is one of the keys to significantly improving student success.

Sandy is an innovative leader in both on ground and online education, having served as President of American College of Education, where she led the growth of a progressive institution dedicated to serving teachers by offering online doctoral and master’s degrees and as General Counsel and Chief of Staff at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Before entering the education field, Ms. Doran was Senior Counsel at the national law firm, Holland and Knight, and General Counsel and Secretary of New England-based Shaw’s Supermarkets, a $2B internationally held company.