
From community college to career: Fixing transfer gap
Alison Bell, regional vice president at Western Governors University, says better pathways for transitioning from community colleges to four-year degrees are needed... Read more.

Higher education veteran Alison Bell is the regional vice president of Western Governors University's central region. Bell has more than 20 years of higher education leadership experience, including four years of prior experience with WGU as general manager of WGU Indiana operations from 2010-2014. Before returning to WGU, Bell served as director of degree completion at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where she led operations and supervised academic coaching and career staff. Bell earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Indiana University and a Master of Arts in student personnel administration in higher education from Ball State University.
