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Ed Mills

Ed Mills
Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, Enrollment and Student Support

Background and expertise:
Ed Mills brings a quarter century of student service and enrollment management expertise to Sacramento State. And he is happy to put that experience to use on this campus.

“It’s a university with tremendous potential,” Mills says. “There are terrific students, faculty and staff at Sacramento State.”

Mills, the former Chief Enrollment Services Officer at Cleveland State University in Ohio, joined Sacramento State’s staff on Aug. 20. His initial objectives are to increase new undergraduate student enrollment and to initiate a campus-wide effort to increase student retention and graduation.

Mills earned his bachelor’s degree from Kansas State, a master’s degree from Penn State and is currently working toward the completion of his doctorate in Urban Education from Cleveland State.

After catching the “software bug” in 1995, Mills worked at mastering the interchange of operations management, world class service, data analysis and sales. He says these are important job skills that will serve him well as he works at Sacramento State.

He will be responsible for Financial Aid, Admissions and Outreach, the Career Center and Testing. He says he looks forward to helping the University obtain its Destination 2010 goal of making this campus a destination campus for future students.

Joy Stewart-James

Joy Stewart-James
Director, Student Health Center

Background and expertise:
Joy Stewart-James is getting Sacramento State student health care services into shape as director of the Student Health Center.

Among Stewart-James goals: modifying students’ concepts of health and wellness.

“Student health services are extremely important because not only do we want to provide necessary health care services, we want to give them the knowledge to be better health care consumers, to create a lifestyle of prevention and wellness,” she says.

With her extensive background in health care including administrative work, health and wellness, fitness and teaching, Stewart-James brings a wealth of knowledge to the Student Health Center. She oversees all health services and is working to electronically modernize the system so students will be served more effectively, she says.

Before coming to Sacramento State, Stewart-James was a director of occupational health services at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, TX, a part-time health and kinesiology instructor at Austin Community College and a wellness program coordinator for the Austin Police Department.

While working at the Austin Police Department, Stewart-James developed and supervised a university intern program which she looks forward to creating at the new health center as well, she says. She will be working closely with departments across campus to create hands-on clinical internship opportunities for students.

And although she comes from Austin, Texas, supposedly one of the friendliest cities in the U.S., she thinks Sacramento’s hospitality rates high as well.