Dr. Dale Nesbary

Since July 2022, Dale K. Nesbary, Ph.D., has served as a member of the Executive Advisory Board of CampusWorks, Inc., where he advises college and university leaders on issues relating to strategic planning, leadership, governance, and technology.

Prior, he served as President of Muskegon Community College from 2009-2022 during which time the college was named best community college in Michigan in 2017 and 2021 by BestColleges.com and Intelligent.com, respectively, employing standard success metrics. The college featured perennially nationally ranked RN and LPN nursing programs, and two performance groups (West Michigan Concert Winds and the MCC Collegiate Singers) performed in the Isaac Stern Auditorium of New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.

Prior to MCC, he served as Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs and full professor of Political Science at Adrian College and as associate professor and director of the Master of Public Administration Program at Oakland University. He also served as Research Director and Technical Services Director with the Boston Police Department as well as in fiscal leadership positions with the City of Boston central administration. He also held analytic positions with the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, Colorado, and the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency. During his professional career, he personally led multiple strategic planning processes, technology process redesign initiatives, and governance transitions.

He has presented on hundreds of occasions to academic, leadership, governance, legislative, and executive branch institutions and published three books and over 30 academic/referred papers primarily in the areas of finance, technology, and policing. He earned a Ph.D. in Law, Policy and Society from Northeastern University, a Master of Public Administration degree from Western Michigan University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University.

In addition to the CampusWorks Executive Advisory Board, he chaired the Trinity Health System Michigan Board as well as the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) National Board, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Workforce Development Commission, and the American Council of Education (ACE) Fellows Executive Board, among others. He remains a silver life member of the NAACP.

He resides in Newburg, MD, with his beautiful wife of 46 years, Connie, and is the proud father of two adult children, Nicole and Matthew. His interests include baking bread, crafting jams, and gigging with any group needing a trombonist.