Presenter Bio - Dr. Tyler Steffy
Dr. Tyler Steffy currently serves as the Director of Student Life at Montgomery County Community College. He is also a volunteer firefighter and youth baseball coach and he understands that risk is inevitable and continually evolves. Dr. Steffy works diligently to educate, prepare, and train different stakeholders on how to mitigate risk as well as how to properly handle incidents when they occur.
Tyler Steffy has worked at a variety of different institutions over the last fifteen years, with the last eight years in a community college setting. He has an Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership from Wilmington University, an M.B.A from Thomas Jefferson University, a Masters in Higher Education from Florida State University, and a chelors in Secondary Education.
In his role as the Director of Student Life at Montgomery County Community College, Tyler oversees a variety of college-wide initiatives and engagements aimed at assisting with student retention and success. This includes the first-year journey, weeks of welcome, commencement, club and organization oversight, student government, student ambassador program oversight, judicial officer responsibilities, shared governance committee responsibilities, policy and regulation compliance responsibilities, etc. Tyler has oversight of these initiatives and engagements at multiple campuses and modalities for nearly 10,000 students as a department of one rofessional. As a department of one, Tyler has had to develop internal and external partnerships to remove barriers for student access and success. In coordinating college-wide, collaborative, co-curricular engagements, Tyler’s professional passion lies in the ability to assist students in developing the necessary skills to improve their families’ social and economic mobility for generations to come.
Not only does Tyler help his institution mitigate risk, but outside of work, he is a volunteer firefighter and youth baseball coach. He has also led student trips and other volunteer humanitarian trips both domestically and abroad for groups from twenty to one hundred twenty participants. These experiences both on the job and off have provided Tyler with valuable experience in risk management, programming planning, and the ability to triage situations as they arise. While risk is inevitable and continually evolves, Tyler works diligently to educate, prepare, and train different stakeholders on how to mitigate risk as well as how to properly handle incidents when they occur.
