Kimberlie joined DePaul University as associate vice president for Student Affairs on June 20, 2022. Prior to DePaul, she was vice president of Student Affairs/Dean of Students at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI, where she had served since 2016. Prior to that role, she was the Dean of Students and then interim vice president of Student Affairs at Ohio Wesleyan University from 2009 to 2016, and has served in many other roles in Student Affairs prior to that.
Her knowledge and experience was developed over a more than 30-year career in Student Affairs. Most recently, at Carthage, she founded the Office of Equity and Inclusion; launched Luther’s Lunchbox (a supplemental food assistance program), a First in the Family Pre-Orientation program to serve first generation college students, and the Carthage Academic Achievement Program (CAAP) to support first year students on probation. She also implemented a Bystander Intervention training and led the design and construction of an ASID Design-Winning residential hall, among many other accomplishments at Carthage and elsewhere.
Beyond her Student Affairs work experience, she has been heavily engaged with the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) professional association. Most recently she served as NASPA IV-East Region director from 2015-17, was on the NASPA Board of Directors from 2015-17, was the co-chair of the NASPA IV East Senior Student Affairs Professional Track at the regional conferences in 2017 and 2018, and was a member of the NASPA IV East Mentoring Programs Committee from 2021-22.