Marsha Lowery

Dr. Marsha L. Lowery is a nationally recognized higher education leader with more than twenty years of experience advancing undergraduate student success, retention, and degree completion through equity-centered strategy, data-informed decision-making, and collaborative institutional leadership. She currently serves as Vice Chancellor for Student Academic Success at Rutgers University–Camden, where she provides university-wide vision and oversight for retention and persistence initiatives, academic support services, co-curricular programs, first-year experience, career advancement services, and student success analytics.

In this role, Dr. Lowery leads cross-divisional partnerships with academic affairs, enrollment management, student affairs, and faculty to implement integrated student success ecosystems, including early alert interventions, learning communities, and faculty-engaged pedagogical training. She manages a $2.5 million portfolio and supervises a team of more than 30 professionals dedicated to improving undergraduate outcomes and strengthening student belonging.

Dr. Lowery has delivered measurable impact across the student life cycle, including increasing undergraduate retention, reducing summer melt by nearly 50%, and contributing to national recognition of Rutgers–Camden’s social mobility outcomes. She secured major federal investments, including a $1.9 million U.S. Department of Education grant that designated Rutgers–Camden as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander–Serving Institution, and she launched signature initiatives such as the First-Generation Student Faculty Fellows Program and the Office of Scholar Development and Fellowship Advising, significantly expanding prestigious fellowship participation and awards.

In addition to her academic success leadership, Dr. Lowery was appointed Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, overseeing student wellness, housing and residence life, student conduct, Title IX, and engagement programming, further strengthening her holistic approach to undergraduate education.

Dr. Lowery holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership and is a Certified Gallup Strengths Coach and Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. A sought-after speaker and scholar-practitioner, she has presented nationally on social mobility, equity-driven student success strategy, and institutional transformation, and she has published on the effectiveness of student success coaching.