HAMBURG, N.Y. – Hilbert College has named Livingston Alexander, Joseph Dommer, Vastye Gillespie, Sterling Kozlowski, and Father Michael Sajda, OFM Conv., to three-year terms on the college’s board of trustees.
Alexander, whose career in higher education spans more than 30 years, has served as president of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford since 2003. Prior to his tenure at Pitt-Bradford, he was provost and vice president for academic affairs and professor of psychology at Kean University.
Alexander has served as a seminar leader and lecturer for the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellowship Program in higher education administration and is a member of ACE’s Commission on Lifelong Learning.
He has published and presented on many higher education topics, including learning and cognition, planning and assessment of learning outcomes, and leadership. A frequent presenter, he has spoken at seminars and workshops throughout the country on leadership and diversity.
Alexander, a resident of Bradford, Pa., received a doctorate in educational psychology and a master’s degree in curriculum from the University of Houston, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Saint Joseph Seminary College.
Dommer is president of Baer & Associates where he’s been involved with more than 3,000 construction projects since joining the firm in 1991. Prior to becoming the firm’s president, he held various positions, including chief estimator and project manager.
Active in the community, Dommer serves on the Erie Community College Construction Technology Advisory Board, a role that led him to assisting with vital curriculum update initiatives. He’s also a volunteer with Junior Achievement of Western New York and vice president of the board of the Boys and Girls Club of the Northtowns.
Dommer, who is a 2007 recipient of Business First’s Forty Under 40 award, is an affiliate member of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the American Society of Professional Estimators, and an officer on the Construction Exchange of Western New York Board of Governors.
An Orchard Park resident, Dommer completed the University at Buffalo School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership program and received an associate’s degree in construction technology from ECC.
Gillespie, a Hilbert graduate, is counsel for the Erie County Department of Social Services, a position she was appointed to in 2008. Previously, she was staff attorney for the UAW-GM Legal Services Plan.
Gillespie is a former board member of Elmwood Franklin School, Catholic Central School and the Mark Twain Museum of Buffalo. She was recognized in Buffalo’s Uncrowned Queens: African-American Women Community Builders and was a 1999 Business First Forty Under 40 honoree.
An Arthur A. Schomburg Graduate Fellow, Gillespie, who resides in Buffalo, received a law degree from UB.
Kozlowski is president of KeyBank’s Western New York District where he oversees retail, business and commercial banking. He previously spent 23 years with HSBC Bank USA, most recently as senior vice president for national small business banking.
Active in the community, Kozlowski is first vice president of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Western New York and is a board member of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, Heritage Centers, the Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, and Mayor Byron Brown’s Advance Buffalo Fund. He’s also chairman of the New York State Small Business Development Centers Advisory Board.
Kozlowski, who resides in Clarence Center, is a graduate of UB’s advanced commercial lending program and the University of Virginia’s Graduate School of Retail Bank Management, and received a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from Syracuse University.
Father Michael has worked in Catholic education for 31 years and is president of St. Francis High School, having previously been the school’s principal. Prior to this, he was president of John Carroll High School in Fort Pierce, Fla.
He’s a member of the St. Anthony of Padua Province Education Commission and serves on the Franciscan Center Board of Directors. He’s also past chairperson of the board of principals of the Monsignor Martin High School Athletic Association.
An Athol Springs resident, Father Michael is a member of the National Catholic Education Association and Catholic School Administrators Association of New York State.
He received a master’s degree in history from Morgan State University, a master of divinity from St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. Hyacinth College & Seminary.