Perry R. Rettig, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor and former vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Piedmont University. Previously, he served as vice president for academic affairs at Piedmont for five years. He has also served as vice president for the Athens Campus at Piedmont and as interim dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences and interim dean of the School of Education. He maintains his faculty credentials and active faculty role in the College of Education at Piedmont. Prior to his move to Georgia in 2013, he served as associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he also served as a faculty member. He began his professional career as a public school teacher for five years in rural Green Bay, Wisconsin and then as a public school principal for seven years in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He has been an educator for more than 37 years.
Rettig has presented at international conferences in Beijing, China; London, England, Vienna, Austria; Melbourne, Australia; Belfast, Ireland; and this summer in Krakow, Poland. He has made numerous presentations across the United States. He has published seven books with Rowman & Littlefield. In the summer of 2021, he published Enrollment Management: Successful Approaches with Dwindling Numbers (Rowman & Littlefield). Likewise, he has published more than 20 articles in the field of education, writes a monthly education article for the local regional newspaper, and an occasional piece for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Rettig's Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Administration is from Marquette University. His master's degree (M.S.) in Educational Leadership and Administration is from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and his bachelor's degree (B.S.E.) is from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater.
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