Lori Crose

Senior Account Development Director
llcrose@oakland.edu

Lori Crose has been with Oakland University since 2000 in various leadership roles. As the Senior Account Development Director for Professional and Continuing Education (PACE), Crose develops custom PACE programs for university departments, schools and colleges. These programs weave seamlessly into the advancement goals of Oakland University and the advancing professionals of our community. She collaborates with academic leaders to develop new programs, alternate delivery options and strategies to grow program enrollment using new adult learning approaches in development at Oakland University. In addition, Crose creates partnership programs with governments, businesses and organizations to support workforce development needs.
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Prior to higher education, she worked in the healthcare industry serving as laboratory research assistant at both Illinois State University in Bloomington, Illinois and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois. Later, she served as Senior Microbiologist at Pharmacia-Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Michigan. While there, her research on Streptomyces transposons resulted in several white paper publications and she received numerous awards for her contribution to antibiotic production process improvements.

Crose earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration in 2002 from Oakland University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Illinois College in 1981. She has served two terms as the Central Region Secretary for the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) organization and served on the Central Region Planning Committee in 2015. She recently served as a member of the Oakland County’s Workforce Development Business Roundtable and represented Oakland University Representative on the Oakland County Emerging Sectors Educational Consortium.