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Dan is a respected national leader and strategist with a distinguished career in higher education. He brings his dynamic vision and industry expertise to Baker Tilly after serving as the Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) for six years and reinforces the firm’s ability to help higher education institutions and systems nationwide meet today’s complex challenges.
Over his 30 years of higher education leadership experience, Dan has a successful track record of catalyzing innovations that improve the industry’s performance to deliver affordable, high quality, career-relevant postsecondary education for all. His work with universities, colleges and the service providers that support them leverages innovative educational and business models and advanced technology and scales efficiencies to enhance student outcomes and bolster institutions’ financial resilience. His work in state and federal public policy emphasizes the development of data-driven funding and policy decisions that improve higher education’s performance as an engine of workforce development and social mobility, as well as its transparency and accountability.
Throughout his leadership, Dan has demonstrated astute communication, analytical problem-solving, strategic thinking and change leadership capabilities, coupled with political sensitivities that enable coalition building that is required to succeed in transformational and pioneering work in the sector.
At Baker Tilly, Greenstein leads initiatives that enable universities and colleges to respond effectively to the rapidly evolving needs of students, their communities and the nation, and to successfully navigate significant and mounting reputational, political, demographic, financial and other headwinds.
• Lowering student cost, growing enrollment and improving student outcomes
• Building a bi-partisan coalition that increased state support by over 30% in four years
• Leading a communications campaign that rehabilitated PASSHE’s public reputation
• Leveraging technology that makes higher education accessible to all irrespective of location, family and work commitments, and that personalizes learning and learner support to enhance student outcomes
• Building credentialing pathways that respond to employer needs, including those supporting historically underserved learners, such as adults seeking to re-skill and upskill through short-course credentialing programs
• Applying technology, data analytics and innovative scale solutions to expand access and improve outcomes for students, and improve quality and lower unit cost of business, administrative and student-facing functions
• Working closely at federal and state levels and across the political spectrum with elected representatives and their staff and advocacy groups to create state and federal funding and policy environments that enable improved performance of the nation’s higher education sector
