Crystal has over eighteen years of experience in higher education and ten years devoted to industry-specific areas including business, customer service, marketing, healthcare administration, insurance, diversity, and leadership.
Jones not only has an adoration for higher education, but a lifelong passion for advocacy. Her leadership and experience in supporting individuals is demonstrated through her participation in outreach programs, tutoring, not-for-profit startup, mentoring, and other professional settings.
Jones has facilitated several of Diversity sessions, such as the United Way of Clark, Champaign, and Madison Counties, the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, Springfield Fire Division, AFP, and for Women in Business Network of Dayton, etc. She has also served as a panelist on a community-wide discussion for Leaders of Change focusing on social justice and on the Women’s Leadership Panel for Women’s History month.
Jones also has fostered a plethora of partnerships focused on workforce development. These partnerships include the following career clusters Manufacturing, Healthcare, Agriculture, Technology, Logistics, Food Service, and Insurance. These partnerships are focused on innovation, planning, financial stewardship, recruitment, talent development, and shared governance.
Her professional journey began in industry, that experience led to an adjunct position teaching in the Management and Medical Office Administration programs. After teaching part-time for less than a year, she moved into a full-time position working in both programs. Since that day, she has worked as a program coordinator, committee chair, assistant dean, college credit plus liaison, grant coordinator, advisor, as the Vice President for Marketing, Diversity, and Community Impact, and currently as the Senior Director of Workforce Partnerships at OACC and Co-Director of the OSCN.
She began her educational journey at Clark State College and earned her bachelor’s degrees in organizational leadership and human services from Urbana University. She then attained an MBA with an emphasis in Healthcare Management from American Intercontinental University and completed her Doctorate in leadership in higher education at Capella University in 2023. She is also an alumnus of the OACC Leadership Academy and Leadership Ohio.