Dr. Jodi Bailey currently serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs at Temple University, where she leads a broad portfolio encompassing student engagement, residential life, crisis response, student conduct, and comprehensive wraparound services. At the core of her leadership is a strategic focus on retention, belonging, and persistence—exemplified by Temple’s development of an Essential Needs Hub, where essential needs and wrap around services are provided to all students through cross-campus and community partnerships.

A recognized national leader in higher education, Jodi was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education (2024) for her thought leadership on the future of campus housing. Jodi has been  featured speaker at both the national and executive levels. Most recently, Jodi was a featured speaker at the 2025 NASPA 2 Regional Conference, was a featured panelist discussing “The
Future of Student Affairs” for the Board of Trustees at D’Youville University (2024) and spoke onthe NASPA First Scholars Network Leadership Panel (2023), where she highlighted scalable
approaches for supporting first-generation student success.

Jodi also serves as Temple University’s liaison to the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), a national coalition of public research universities committed to improving graduation rates for
low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students. She currently co-chairs the NASPA Task Force on Student Success, helping to define and drive national priorities for equitable outcomes across the student lifecycle. With more than two decades of experience at large public institutions, Jodi is known for her operational expertise, student-centered advocacy, and collaborative approach to institutional transformation. She serves as an adjunct faculty in the higher education program at Temple University and has taught or guest lectured at Rutgers New Brunswick, Pace and Seton Hall Universities as well as UVA.

Jodi has advised colleges and universities across the country on student engagement strategy, leadership development, and mission-aligned transformation. Her work is grounded in data-
driven decision-making and results-oriented planning, helping institutions build systems that improve student outcomes while advancing equity and institutional effectiveness.
She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Campus Philly and the editorial board for the NASPA Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. Her leadership roles within NASPA
include past Region II Director, Senior Student Affairs Liaison, and Executive Board member.

Jodi holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research and Administration from Seton Hall University, where her dissertation explored grit as a predictor of persistence for first-generation Latino students. She earned her M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration and B.A. in English and Communications from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Throughout her career, Jodi has earned a reputation as a results-driven, equity-minded leader who delivers institutional change. Whether advancing student success models, shaping national strategy, or building cross-sector coalitions, she brings a powerful blend of vision, expertise, and execution that drives lasting impact across higher education.

Omneya Badr is an educator and student affairs professional who gained a culturally diverse higher education experience studying, teaching and working in Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, UK and USA.

Badr serves on NASPA’s Board of Directors and is the director of NASPA’s Global Division (2024-2026), past director of MENASA NASPA area (2022-2024), and the 2021 and 2022 MENASA* Conference chair.  Badr held teaching and academic advising positions at New York Institute of Technology Bahrain, Bahrain Institute of Business and Finance, Qatar University and Trinity University USA. She is a frequent presenter at NASPA and NACADA conferences and her research interests are culturally based Academic Advising, supporting First generation students, FYE, and cross-cultural communication.

She holds an MBA from the University of Bath – UK, a Certificate of Entrepreneurial & Small Business Operations from the Academy of Arts, California - USA & a BA in Management from the American University in Cairo - Egypt.  She recently acquired a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate from the University of South Florida - USA. 

As an educator, Omneya enjoys giving back to the profession and is interested in creating professional development opportunities for global Student Affairs professionals and encouraging research and sharing knowledge among counterparts around the world.