Sue Maes

2006 - 2007 Board President

Maes is the emeritus dean of K-State Global Campus. She retired from Global Campus in 2017. She co-founded and co-directed the Institute for Academic Alliances until her retirement and now consults for the institute.

Maes earned her Ph.D. in Counseling and Educational Psychology from Kansas State University. Her M.S. in Family and Child Development and her B.S. in Social Science are from Kansas State University. She participated in the Institute for Management of Lifelong Education at Harvard University.

Maes also helped facilitate the development of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance. Outside of university responsibilities, she dedicated time to building the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation and the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, headquartered at the University of Oklahoma.

In our podcast, we discussed her year as the president, her volunteerism, and the formation of the Youth Impacting Community Program.

• Recruited the first GMCF Executive Director/employee,  Annelee Donnelly.
• Developed the first guidelines for GMCF grant-giving and to together the first grants committee. 
• Introduced and launched the Youth Impacting Community (YIC)program.
• Started Fairy Godmothers program.