CES Leadership
Dr. David Wright
Dr. David Wright
Dr. David Wright
- Founding CES board member
- Served 35 years in Christian higher education
- President Emeritus, Indiana Wesleyan University
- Immediate Past Chair, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Board
- Director, Excelsia College, Sydney, Australia
- Research Fellow, Lumen Research Institute
- Global higher education service in Haiti, England, and Australia
Russ Gunsalus
Dr. David Wright
Dr. David Wright
•Founding CES board member
•Former Executive Director, Education and Ministry Development – The Wesleyan Church
•Served 14 years in faculty and academic leadership at Indiana Wesleyan University
•Founding COO of Wesley Seminary
•Founding Board Member Full Strength Network
•Served as trustee for 5 universities and Wesley Seminary
John Lee
Dr. David Wright
John Lee
•Founding board member
•Past Chair, Houghton University
•Board member, World Hope International
•Board member, Jericho Road Community Health Center.
•Former executive, Praxair (now Linde)
•30 years of executive operating experience
Our Operating Partner
CES has entered an operating partnership with Core Education Services, PBC. Core is a public benefit corporation with a mission to support small and mid-size institutions via shared services.
CES and Core work together to help partner institutions identify their most pressing institutional needs, then create and implement sustainable pathways to institutional strength by leveraging the efficiencies and strengths of shared personnel and systems.
The power of the partnership lies in the people, expertise, and experience of the team that comes alongside affiliated institutions. This team becomes the institution’s team, assisting, consulting, working diligently with the affiliated institution to implement a pathway to success.
ABOUT CORE
Core is creating a growing operating entity of approximately 80 people. They are currently working with twelve institutions across the country. Collectively these twelve institutions have a budget of $1B, which allows for economies of scale to be achieved for many different supporting services.
Core’s supporting services for these ten institutions include active management of technology departments, admissions and marketing support for enrollment growth, workforce development programming and enrollment, workflow optimization to maximize student matriculation, institutional research, transfer student marketing and processing, business intelligence, financial aid compliance and registrar services.
