Dennis W. Devery, Ed.D.
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Dr. Dennis W. Devery is the vice president for Enrollment Management at Thomas Edison State University. In this position, he oversees the areas of marketing, recruitment and market research as well as the offices of Admissions, Strategic Partnerships, and Military and Veteran Education.
Prior to assuming his current position, Devery served as Thomas Edison State University's vice president for Planning and Research. Before joining the University, Devery had a distinguished 30-year military career, retiring at the rank of colonel. Devery's last military assignments was commander of the Joint Training and Training Technology Development Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, where he led a team of training experts who provided strategic, operational and tactical-level instruction to U.S. military forces, state and federal law enforcement professionals and various allied military forces.
Prior to that assignment, Devery was the deputy director/chief of staff of the Afghan National Security Forces Development Assistance Bureau, ISAF Joint Command (IJC-ADAB), stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan. Devery has also served as chief of staff for the New Jersey Army National Guard, the joint director of Military Support for the New Jersey National Guard, the recruiting commander and as a supervisory instructor pilot.
Devery was recently an American Council on Education fellow at Stockton University and has served as an adjunct professor for the Political Science Department of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and as a member of the Veterans Advisory Council of Rowan University.
Devery holds a doctorate in education (Ed.D.) from Rowan University, a master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, a Master of Science in Management degree from Thomas Edison State University and a bachelor's degree in management from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Devery serves as the chair of the Board for the Burlington Regional Chamber of Commerce and was inducted into the Burlington County College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2012. He previously served on the Board of the Camden County Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Governors for the YMCA of Burlington and Camden Counties. He is also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Moorestown Rotary.