Dr.

Cheryl Lynn Horsey

Vice President for Enrollment & Student Services
Gwynedd Mercy University
Dr. Cheryl Lynn Horsey is the Vice President for
Enrollment and Student Services at Gwynedd Mercy
University in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Prior to
joining Gwynedd Mercy, Cheryl Lynn thrived in
leadership roles at public and private, secular and nonsecular institutions ranging from an historically black
institution, public research institution, womens college
and a private co-educational college. Cheryl Lynn is in
her twelfth year at the University.
With over twenty years of experience working with and
for non-profit entities, ranging from social service
agencies to higher education institutions, Dr. Horsey also serves as an evaluator
for the Commission on Higher Education-Middle States Association.
Past accomplishments include the founding of Delaware Valley Youth Services,
an agency dedicated to providing independent living skills to underserved
populations of teen mothers, the development of a career conference for women
of Color, WomanSense, and the co-development of Summer Success, a
college preparatory program designed to attract young minority Philadelphia area
high school girls to Rosemont College, and collaboration on the creation of an
after-school program for Germantown High school students at First United
Church of Germantown.
Dr. Horsey is the creator of the Power of One conference, which fosters civic
responsibility and leadership in Mercy college and university student leaders by
helping them to explore global issues to determine how they can address those
concerns at a local level on their campuses.
Dr. Horseys civic engagement includes past Chair for the Norristown Youth Aid
Panel: a community intervention model designed to avert youth delinquency; past
board chairperson for Montgomery County OIC, board member of Girl Scouts of
Eastern Pennsylvania, and former commissioner of the East Norriton Human
Relations Commission. Dr. Horsey serves as Secretary of the board of trustees
for Hope Partnership for Education - an independent middle school and adult
education center serving North Philadelphia.