DR. KATHRYN DOHERTY
Chief Institutional Effectiveness Officer
Kathryn Doherty, Ed.D., MBA, PMP is a senior higher education administrator with over two decades of experience in program growth and development, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, graduate education, and program evaluation across public and private institutions.
Her executive career includes Dean of the School of Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University and Associate Provost at Goucher College, with earlier leadership at Morgan State, Towson, Howard Community College, Marymount, and George Washington University. She also brings federal contractor experience with Trewon Technologies leading large grant program evaluation at the Department of Education and Department of Labor and several years of higher education consulting.
Education
- Ed.D. and MBA from UMass Amherst
- AB. from Smith College
- PMP certification
- Top-Secret security clearance
Experience
- Senior higher education administrator with over two decades of experience in program growth and development, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, graduate education, and program evaluation across public and private institutions
- Dean of the School of Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University
- Associate Provost at Goucher College
- Earlier leadership at Morgan State, Towson, Howard Community College, Marymount, and George Washington University
- Federal contractor experience with Trewon Technologies leading large grant program evaluation at the Department of Education and Department of Labor
- Several years of higher education consulting
- Middle States examiner
- Past President of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research
- Has four adult children and two dogs, lives in Columbia, MD, and is passionate about accreditation, student success and institutional excellence


