About

Margie McGee-Newton (she/her/hers) has twenty years of experience in higher education in roles ranging from Consulting, Learning Experience Design, Academic Advising, Student Success Initiatives, Curriculum Development, Accreditation, Marketing and Recruitment, and Career Services.

She has worked with a wide variety of organizations and institutions, including The Career Leadership Collective, a thought partner and consulting group for colleges and universities globally, DePaul University in Chicago, Wellesley College, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

In her current role at The Collective, as a Consultant and Creative and Content Manager, she helps produce reports comprehensively evaluating a university's career development ecosystem. This process involves interviews with campus stakeholders, research into comparable institutions, data-backed best practices, and a deep dive into the student experience. She is also responsible for marketing and communications, managing weekly newsletters, member subscriptions, web content, and social media as well as blogs, videos, and infographics targeting higher education professionals in career services.

As the Director of Career Education at the DePaul University Career Center, she oversaw career education initiatives for 19,000+ students and an alumni population of over 120,000. In this role, she led the creation of a 50+ library of scaffolded micro-learning career content, including 15+ videos and a collection of “career activities” ranging from interactive branding workshops to peer-led resume reviews. She also piloted a first-year career experience, a yield and retention initiative, unique in its “sprinkle approach” to learning. This program, called Future Forward, has doubled in size in its first three years and has demonstrable impacts on retention and student confidence.

She is passionate about bringing an appreciation for a user experience lens to higher education and leveraging accessible and engaging learning experiences to connect learners to meaningful and actionable content.

She earned her MFA in Visual Studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her educational background in studio arts aligns with her design-thinking approach to her work and her stamina for innovation.

In her artistic practice, she is primarily a woodcarver and ceramicist. She has won several artist grants, including the McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, but she is most proud of her two Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts ribbons.