2023 Executive Committee

Nicole Fogle, MBA, Ed.S.
President
Nicole Fogle is the Institutional Effectiveness Coordinator at Gaston College. She helps to oversee program review, outcome assessment, survey administration and accreditation processes. She researches, collects, interprets and analyzes a variety of data for college planning activities, program review annual reporting requirements, specialized program accreditation, strategic planning and SACSCOC accreditation processing. Before her role at Gaston College, she worked at Wilkes Community College as the Executive Director of Institutional Research, Planning & Effectiveness and the SACSCOC Liaison. Nicole started her time in IE/IR during the spring of 2004 at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute where she worked for 15 years in various IE/IR roles. She holds an E.d.S. in Higher Education Leadership from Northcentral University, M.B.A. in Business Administration from Argosy University, and B.S. in Business Administration from Gardner-Webb University. Nicole has been a member of CCPRO since 2007.

Michael Cobb, M.Div., Ed.D.
President Elect
Dr. Michael Cobb is the Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning, and Compliance at Cape Fear Community College and also serves at the college’s SACSCOC Liaison. Prior to working at Cape Fear Community College, he worked as the Director of Planning and Research at Brunswick Community College. He holds M.A. in Pastoral Theology from the Pontificia Università San Tommaso D’Aquino (Rome, Italy), a M.Div. in Fundamental Theology from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana (Rome, Italy), Graduate Certificates in Educational Administration from Cal State Fullerton University and the University of California Riverside, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has been a CCPRO member since 2015, and he has previously served on the Executive Committee as Secretary and the Eastern Region Director. He has served as QEP Co-Director at Brunswick Community College and has served on both off-site and on-site SACSCOC committees.

Carol Ann Lydon, M.Ed
Immediate Past President
Carol Ann is the Associate Dean of Research at Southeastern Community College. There she serves as the college’s institutional researcher, grant writer, and data coordinator. Carol Ann has been in IR and IE for over 13 years and, before that was a tutor and substitute teacher at Carolina Day School in Asheville, N.C. She has been a CCPRO member since 2009 and has served as Western Region Director, President-Elect, President, and now Immediate Past President of CCPRO. She has also served on two separate, statewide Performance Measures Adjustment committees and holds a Master’s in Educational Research from the University of South Carolina.

Ladelle "Bo" Harmon
Treasurer

Christine Teach. MPP
Secretary
Katie Bowman
Historian

Leeann Cline-Burris
Western Region Director

Kim Sandoval
Central Region Director
Kim Sandoval is the Institutional Researcher/Project Manager at South Piedmont Community College. She is highly involved in South Piedmont’s 2023 SACSCOC reaffirmation process, contributing to writing and editing for the Compliance Report and coordinating logistics for the site visit. She is also the primary survey administrator and supports implementation of the Strategic Plan. A member of CCPRO since 2019, she still knows what it’s like to be new in the IR/IE world. Her previous work has included data-informed advocacy work in non-profits and local government spanning program evaluation, workforce development, grants administration and land-use planning. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Louisville.
Natalie Hinson
Eastern Region Director

Meghan Nevil
Webmaster
Meghan Nevil is the Coordinator of Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Analytics at Isothermal Community College. Past positions include Research and Grants Analyst at Haywood Community College. She has assisted with a fifth-year interim report and will be preparing her third SACSCOC reaffirmation report due in 2026. She holds an AAS degree in Business Administration and will be graduating with her B.A. in Sociology from Fayetteville State University in Spring 2024. She has been a CCPRO member since 2018 and has served as Treasurer and now Webmaster of CCPRO.
Start building your CCPRO network