Nissa Dahlin-Brown Office: 865.974.0931 Fax: 865.974.8777Email: nissa@utk.edu
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Tennessee
MS, Adult and Technological Education, University of Tennessee
EdD, Higher Education Administration and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee
Nissa Dahlin-Brown is the associate director and manages all public programs and related initiatives, student engagement programs, communications, and the facility.
She joined the Baker Center as assistant director in July 2003. Previously, she worked in the Division of Continuing Education at UT as a program coordinator and assistant director in Conferences, and later as assistant director in Professional & Personal Development from 1984 to 2003. In July 2005, she received the Alice L. Beeman Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Communications and Marketing, given by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for her dissertation, “The Impact of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on Eight Public MBA Programs.” An article written from this dissertation, “The Perceptual Impact of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on Eight Public MBA Programs” was published in the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education in June 2006. Nissa has also co-authored several articles and one book chapter on civic engagement and service-learning in Exploring Cultural Dynamics & Tensions within Service-Learning (2011). She annually teaches a First Year Studies course for UT freshman and served as an external grant reviewer for AmeriCorps in 2012.