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412-392-3976 

412-392-8086

jryan@pointpark.edu

Karen S. McIntyre serves a Point Park University's senior vice president for academic and student affairs and dean of faculty. She is a professor of education in the School of Arts and Sciences.  

McIntyre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Education and Ph. D. in curriculum and supervision from the University of Pittsburgh.  She is certified by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a supervisor of curriculum and instruction, elementary principal, early childhood and elementary teacher. 

Before her appointment as senior vice president for academic and student affairs in December of 2010, she served as vice provost. McIntyre also served as the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from January 2007 to May of 2009 and chairperson of the Department of Education from 2005-2007.  Positions she has held at other institutions include: president of the Education Policy and Issues Center, director of the Office of Educational Design and Assessment, director of Unit of School Support Services and division director of early childhood education for Pittsburgh Public Schools, Elementary and middle school teacher and vice principal for the Diocese of Pittsburgh Catholic Schools.

Diane Maldonado serves as Point Park University's associate vice president for academic and student affairs. She teaches in the University's School of Arts and Sciences in addition to her administrative responsibilities. Maldonado holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Allegheny College and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in English from Duquesne University. Maldonado served as a professor of communication arts, assessment of student learning coordinator, and acting academic dean at  the Community College of Allegheny County, where she worked from 1990-2008.

Lindblom co-founded California Repertory Company, the professional company at California State University, Long Beach, in 1989, and served as its associate artistic producing director until 1998. He has served as artistic director of Stage West Theatre in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and the Collective Artists Theatre in Boston, Mass.

Lindblom is the founder of The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company.

Karen Hall serves as the director of E-learning at Point Park University.  She is also an adjunct instructor for the Department of Education.  She received her Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Arts in E-learning from the University of Phoenix online and will complete her Ed.D. in higher education and adult learning in September, 2011 from Walden University online. Karen is a Quality Matters certified peer reviewer and trainer and Cisco certified instructor.

Prior to her appointment as the director of E-learning in October 2009, she served as the associate director of instructional technology and media services from 2004-2009 and as the instructional technologist for Point Park University from 2002-2004.

Before joining Point Park University, Karen served as the director of business and technologies from 2000-2002 and the distance educator coordinator from 2001-2002 at the Community College of Beaver County. She has also held corporate positions as a manager of information systems, senior data analyst, senior training specialist, senior analytical chemist and stat clinical chemist.

Karen is the co-founder of the Pittsburgh Area Blackboard User’s Group.  She is also a member of several national professional organizations including the International Society for Technology in Education, American Society for Distance Learning , US Distance Learning Association, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development  and Quality Matters.

Jordan Nofziger is responsible to the senior vice president for academic and student affairs and dean of faculty for the management of academic administration responsibilities in Academic Affairs. He is responsible for organizing and scheduling the work of the office, maintaining task assignments and their follow-up, developing schedules, managing inter-office communication, assisting in the documentation and maintenance of academic policies, drafting correspondence, and keeping minutes of committee and operational area meetings.

Nofziger also processes full-time faculty contracts and tracks their return and maintains all necessary faculty records for compliance consistent with protocols established in the school offices/ office of the deans. Before joining the Office of Academic and Student Affairs staff, Nofziger was assistant to the dean in the School of Arts and Sciences and the administrative assistant in of Office of Career Development. Nofziger graduated from Point Park University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007.

Jan Ryan is responsible to the associate vice president for academic and student affairs for coordination and support related to Academic Affairs; managing inter-office communication, assisting in the documentation and maintenance of academic policies, assisting events planning and other offices in the coordination of academic events and functions, and keeping minutes of committee and operational area meetings. Before joining the Office of Academic and Student Affairs staff, she was the executive assistant to the dean of students.

Patrick Mulvihill is responsible to the senior vice president for academic and student affairs for the creation and modification of data reports in the Office of Academic and Student Affairs. Mulvihill also performs data analysis in consultation with the Office of Institutional Research and the Registrar in addition to maintaining the content areas for the Office of Academic and Student Affairs website, Blackboard site and Intranet site. In addition, Mulvihill prepares and maintains the consolidated enrollment and registration report for the Office of Academic and Student Affairs and the schools.

Mulvihill holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and marketing from Edinboro University, a master's  degree in business education from Robert Morris University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in administration and leadership studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Lindsay Onufer is responsible to the associate vice president for academic and student affairs for conducting background research on assessment and accreditation as well as preparing executive summaries and reports. Onufer maintains content areas for academic policies, accreditation and assessment on the website, Intranet and Blackboard. Onufer also prepares excel formats and other software formats for assessment of student learning activities, researches the Higher Education Opportunity Act compliance process, and maintains the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Middle States files and updates the time lines for compliance reports. Onufer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Westminster College.