Pathway to Progress Micki Meyer, Lord Family Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs-Community, knows the key to navigating life—and her career—is a good map and a willingness to get diverted. Micki Meyer knows firsthand that a chance encounter at the right time with the right person can set you down a new and unexpected path. She’s lived it—twice. In 2000, Meyer was doing graduate work in Ohio when she bumped into a stranger who would later offer her the position that first led her to Central Florida. Four years later, she delivered a presentation at a conference attended by Roger Casey, Rollins’ dean of faculty at the time, who was taking careful note of her 28 | Spring 2020
ideas about service in education and would recruit her to join Rollins as the director of community engagement just a few months later. “I believe deeply in the power of human connection,” says Meyer, “and the power of these collisions to lead us down a greater path and to a greater calling and purpose.” Meyer also knows that where chance leaves off, strategy and planning take over. “I’ve always been interested in educational environments and physical space. I believe
that the ways in which we orient our work physically are a direct reflection of our values, goals, and commitment to putting students at the center.” And that’s what makes her uniquely qualified to serve as the Lord Family Assistant Vice President for Student AffairsCommunity and as the steward of one of the most significant projects in Rollins’ recent history: the design and execution of the College’s new applied center for liberal arts learning, Kathleen W. Rollins Hall.
