Dr. Marcelle Giovannetti ’19D, vice provost, leads the Division of Student Success and Engagement at Messiah University. Her areas of oversight include: The Next Steps certificate program for inclusive post-secondary education, Agape Center for Global and Local Engagement, Office of Student Success, the Career and Professional Development Center, Campus Ministries, The Engle Center for Health and Counseling Services, Office of Student Engagement, First-Year Experience and Student Leadership Programs, Residence Life and Housing. She also serves as advisor to the Student Government Association (SGA). An alumna of Shippensburg University, she earned both a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision. In addition, she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Elizabethtown College. She also has a postgraduate certificate in social justice from Harvard University.

Giovannetti credits the robust education she received at Shippensburg University as the catalyst that ignited her career in higher education and clinical work. She has served in a variety of roles as a subject matter expert for the National Board of Certified Counselors, a clinician in private practice and owner of Courageous Hope Counseling LLC, associate professor in Messiah University’s Graduate Counseling Program and adjunct instructor at Shippensburg University. She has presented at national, regional, state, and local conferences. She recently served an eight-year term on the board of directors for the PA Certification Board and held leadership positions such as chair of their Ethics Committee and was vice president of their board of directors.  She is now senior co-chair to the American Counseling Association’s ethic revision code taskforce.

She is passionate about easing human suffering in the world and advocating for equitable access to education for all students.

Lynne A. (Highsmith) Daley ’83-’84MEd, lieutenant colonel, US Army retired, is a senior vice president and senior technology business solutions manager supporting the Global Human Resources application portfolio with Bank of America.

She is active in the Employee Networks supporting veterans and the military community and helped to establish the Global Technology and Operations Military Advisory Leadership Council, which develops strategies and tactics to attract, hire/on-board, develop, and retain military veteran talent for Bank of America.

A native of Philadelphia, Daley earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in business from Shippensburg University. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army through the Army ROTC Program at Shippensburg University and entered active duty as a signal corps officer in 1985. She provided tactical and strategic communications to the Warfighters during peacetime and combat operations. Throughout a distinguished 22-year military career, Daley served in numerous leadership and nominative assignments from platoon leader to battalion commander, and received many service awards, medals, badges and campaign ribbons.

She has a passion for supporting her community, church, and philanthropic organizations. She is a lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and former vice president of the Delta Education and Public Service Foundation of Prince William County, Virginia. She served on the SU Alumni Association Board of Directors from 2017 through 2021 and is a current member of the John L. Grove College of Business Advisory Board. She was inducted into the Shippensburg University Military Science Hall of Fame in 2022.