[4] Over the span of her career, Cassandra Whyte has worked both as an administrator and as faculty at several private and public higher education institutions in the United States.
Previously, she served a decade at Davis and Elkins College (D&E), where she was on the faculty and a key participant in the strategic redesign of their academic curriculum to "Alternative Futures" that incorporated relevance and creativity with time-honored studies[citation needed].
The research dealt with locus of control and getting students pursuing higher education to accept responsibility for their behavior in regard to improvement of academic performance.
[8] In 2002, Whyte was a member of a round table program held at Oxford University, where she presented a paper focusing on the financial and technological future of higher education in the 21st century.
The program emphasized group and individual counseling focusing upon accepting personal responsibility for educational performance and use of pragmatic approaches to motivate students to do their best work.
Over the following decades, students and educators used e-learning and computer-assisted learning devices more frequently, and by the 2000s more sophisticated institutional data collection was required.
[1] In her teaching, research, counseling, and administrative style, Dr. Whyte focuses on encouraging individuals to accept responsibility for their education and life direction.