Jack Connell

WOS Management

Director, Ohio Operations

Jack Connell is an integral part of the WOS team and is instrumental in helping WOS to strategically expand its reach beyond the New York metropolitan area. As Director of Special Projects & Initiatives for the University of Akron’s Provost Office and a sitting member of the Interim Degree Approval Committee for ACCSC (Accrediting Commission for Career Colleges and Schools), he has been a key advocate in expanding the WOS program into the University of Akron and northeast Ohio.

Jack previously spent 10 years with the Ohio Board of Regents as director of program approval/tuition reciprocity. He was also the agency’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Education, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (the regional accrediting body for Ohio’s academic institutions), and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Earlier in his career, Jack acted as the director of University of Akron’s collaboration with Akron Public Schools and was a consultant to the Ohio Board of Regents before moving to a full-time role with Regents. He also worked as a consultant at Duquesne University on development of new degree programs and implementation of a U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) neighborhood grant.

Jack holds a Baccalaureate in Liberal Studies form Antioch University, an M.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University. He has done social science doctoral work at Syracuse University and is currently completing an EdD in administration at the University of Akron.