Vickie S. Cook

Vickie S. Cook recently accepted a new role at the University of Illinois Springfield as the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment & Retention Management and is a member of the UIS Chancellor’s leadership team. For the past 10 years she has overseen Online Learning through the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, Continuing and Professional Education, Office of Engaged Learning, and Center for Faculty Excellence and served as a member of the Provost leadership team. Cook is a Research Faculty member for the UIS School of Education in Educational Leadership.

She has also served in the capacity of Vice President of Innovation and Strategy and Dean of the School of Education for Greenville University in Greenville, IL. She served at Kaskaskia Community College in Centralia, IL for 14 years in various roles finishing her time there as Dean of Continuing Education and University Alliance.

Vickie publishes in journals and has written several book chapters regarding the intersection of capacity building through leadership. She is an advocate for innovations in learning strategies and has provided many faculty and staff professional development sessions in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on generational learning, multi-generational teaching in the online space, comparisons of Generation Z and Generation Alpha expectations for learning. She has served on various editorial boards, and on the board for higher education organizations in the fields of Continuing, Professional, and Online Education.

She was recognized as an OLC Fellow in 2017 and as a University of Illinois System President’s Executive Leadership Fellow in 2017.