Cleve McDaniel is currently Vice President for Finance and
Administration with the Desert Research Institute, which has
campuses in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada. The Institute is a
not-for-profit environmental research institute within the
University and Community College System of Nevada. Prior to this,
Dr. McDaniel was Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance at
the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS). He has also
served as Vice President for Administrative Affairs at Northeastern
Illinois University in Chicago and Vice President for Administration
at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Dr. McDaniel had
senior-level responsibility for academic and administrative
computing at Northeastern Illinois and Lincoln. Before he became
Vice President at Lincoln, Dr. McDaniel served in several capacities
at that institution, including Director of Institutional Planning
and Research.
Prior to his tenure at Lincoln, Dr. McDaniel served as Senior
Associate for Planning, Policy Studies and Data Services at the
Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education. This agency has
the responsibility for coordinating all state public higher
education. In total, Dr. McDaniel has over 22 years of experience in
higher education, and over thirty years experience in organizational
planning and research. Dr. McDaniel earned his PhD in Higher
Education Administration from the University of Missouri at
Columbia.
Recent ECF consulting activities include working with the Poison
Control Center Technical Assistance Resource Center to develop and
implement a strategic planning model for the Center and for poison
control centers across the country. Also, with ECF, Dr. McDaniel has
helped the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, the University
of Texas at El Paso, the El Paso Community College District and the
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Foundation with their information
technology and organizational strategic planning efforts. Prior
information technology-related consulting efforts include the
Department of Information Resources at the California State
University in Bakersfield, New Mexico State University, and Southern
University in New Orleans. He has also assisted the Missouri
Veterans’ Commission, and local United Way, Chamber of Commerce and
YMCA organizations with their strategic planning efforts.
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