Role and Company
Expertise
25 years experience in education
Location
Lebanon, TN
About Thomas
Mr. Luten recently served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dental Public Health and Chair of the Admissions Committee of the Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry. He has held significant positions in student development and diversity affairs within a unique variety of institutions of higher learning. He has recently served as an Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Student Affairs at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. Also, he has served as the Director of Career Development and Placement Services at Michigan State, Hampton and North Carolina Central Universities. He has been the Vice President of Student Development for Wayne Community College in North Carolina. He has also served as the Director of Staff Development and Affirmative Action for the State of Michigan’s Department of Mental Health.
Mr. Luten has also had numerous consulting assignments. A few of his consulting activities have included:
• Spearheading a recruitment initiative to increase the candidate pool for the Xavier University School of Medicine.
• Implementing a diversity recruitment strategy to identify experienced pharmaceutical sales professionals for Novo Nordisk, Astellas Pharma, and Genentech/Roche.
• Designing a corporate diversity and college recruitment campaign for Henry Schein, Inc.
• Developing college relations, diversity recruitment and college recruitment programs for GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical corporation.
• Serving as MBA, pre-law and graduate school advisor/ admissions consultant for Kaplan Educational Services, advising more than 30 clients annually.
• Advising clients such as the FBI, CIA, IBM, UNISYS, NORTEL, PepsiCo, Deloitte, The PGA TOUR, Baxter, The Southwestern Company, Cingular Wireless and small businesses such as Job Link, and EarthTouch Organics on various issues such as human resource management, diversity recruitment, effective college relations and career coaching.