About Us

Ed Rugg, Ph.D.
Executive Director of Enterprise Information Management
SACS/COC Accreditation Liaison
Professor of Educational Research
MD 5400 House 54
770.499.3609
FAX 770.499.3253
erugg@kennesaw.edu

Dr. Rugg joined the administrative team at Kennesaw State University in 1982 as Executive Assistant to President Betty Siegel. His principal responsibilities in that role were to facilitate the strategic direction, organization, and growth of Kennesaw College, which was a relatively new four-year institution of 5,000 students. In 1986, Ed assumed the role of Vice President for Academic Affairs, a position he held for 16 years. Dr. Rugg's academic leadership focused on managing the maturation of the university as it grew to 15,000 students, strengthening undergraduate general education, establishing graduate programs, promoting applied research and service initiatives, advancing the use of technology, supporting multi-cultural and global initiatives, planning new instructional facilities, and facilitating continuous quality improvement. In 2002, Ed became the Director of the Center for Institutional Effectiveness. In that role, he had institutional responsibility for facilitating Comprehensive Program Review, coordinating KSU's reaccreditation processes, ensuring compliance under the new SACS/COC Principles of Accreditation, editing all accreditation reports and the Quality Enhancement Plan, and providing oversight to the Directors of Institutional Research and Information Management. Ed has chaired or served on over two dozen SACS/COC accreditation committees over the past 20 years. A reorganization and refocusing of his administrative responsibilities occurred in 2007, resulting in the creation of Enterprise Information Management in which he serves as Executive Director.

Ed came to Kennesaw from the University of Mississippi where he was a member of the graduate faculty in educational administration and Associate Director of Institutional Research & Planning, Dr. Rugg had previously spent six years on the graduate faculty of George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, last serving as Assistant Academic Dean. While there, he played a central role in an institutional merger in which Peabody became the college of education of Vanderbilt University in 1979. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from Peabody and his bachelor's degree from Florida Presbyterian College, now Eckerd College, where he was an honors graduate in psychology and sociology. Dr. Rugg's teaching specialty is statistical analysis and social research methods. His scholarly pursuits have focused on various topics in higher education administration, including strategic planning, program evaluation, outcomes assessment, institutional effectiveness, and information management.