Cassandra B. Whyte

Cassandra Bolyard Whyte is an American higher education administrator, teacher, and educational researcher. She is recognized for publication and leadership in the areas of higher education management, improving academic performance of students, campus planning and safety, predicting educational trends in colleges and universities, and encouraging creativity in curriculum development. She is also experienced in helping facilitate campus architectural planning to meet educational vision and programming as well as higher education human resources management and motivation.

Over several decades, Cassandra Whyte has worked as an administrator and/or member of the faculty at private and public higher education institutions in the United States. She has worked many years at West Virginia State University (WVSU) where she has served on the faculty and worked as Special Assistant to the President for Strategic Planning and Special Projects, Vice President for Administrative Services, Acting Vice President for Student Affairs, and in other leadership capacities. At WVSU she has worked at the Executive and Cabinet level for much of her tenure there and currently her major focus is on her faculty role. WVSU is a public, HBCU 1890 land-grant university. Whyte also taught at the graduate level at Oregon State University and at the former West Virginia College of Graduate Studies. Previously, she served a decade at Davis and Elkins College (D & E), where she was on the faculty and a key participant in the strategic redesign of their academic curriculum to "Alternative Futures" that incorporated relevance and creativity with time-honored studies. The schedule was modified to include a winter term between fall and spring semesters which emphasized learning survival skills and independent study. Davis and Elkins College [D&E] is a private, church affiliated liberal arts college. Dr. Whyte also taught in corrections facilities. Additionally, she administratively supervised the WVSU Public Safety Department of trained and certified law enforcement officers for twenty-four years during her cabinet tenure of supervising various departments.

In 1978, Whyte received a national educational research award from Oregon State University (OSU) and taught in their summer graduate education program that same year. The research dealt with Locus of Control and getting students pursuing higher education to accept responsibility for their behavior in regard to improvement of academic performance. Her publications range from juried professional journals to a Jossey-Bass Publishers New Directions sourcebook chapter. In 2002, Whyte was a member of a round table program held at Oxford University in England, where she presented a paper focusing upon the financial and technology future of higher education for the 21st Century. A salient project she helped develop and lead at Davis and Elkins College (D & E), the William James Program, received international notice in The Christian Science Monitor, in the early 1970s. The program emphasized group and individual counseling focusing upon accepting personal responsibility for educational performance and use of pragmatic approaches to motivate students to do their best work.

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