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Professional Biography

Throughout his ten year academic career, Mr. Shropshire has received national acclaim for his dynamic and personalized lecturing ability. After receiving his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida College of Law in 1997, he became the entire university’s Director of Graduate Minority Recruitment. While there, he increased the number of minority applicants to the graduate school by 25%. In addition, he was instrumental in increasing the number of African-American, Latino, and Native American professors within the university’s 135 departments. He became the minority affairs liaison to the Vice Provost of Graduate Education and the University President.

Mr. Shropshire is one of the only administrators in the country who has served as Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions in all four-tiers of law schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report. At the age of 28, he became one of the youngest administrators to hold an Assistant Dean title in law school admissions. Over his extensive professional record, he has reviewed over 45,000 law school applications for University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Loyola Marymount University (CA), Texas Wesleyan University, and Stetson University.

While Interim Director of Admissions for Stetson University College of Law, he created the Diversity Task Force to examine methods of increasing student, staff, and faculty diversity. At Texas Wesleyan, he improved the law school’s academic credentials and diversity profile in each incoming class. At Loyola, his effective recruitment measures produced one of the highest enrollments from Ivy League candidates. During his tenure at UCLA, Mr. Shropshire developed the diversity recruitment strategy which dramatically increased the number of enrolled African-American students from fall 2005 to fall 2006.

Presently, Mr. Shropshire acts as President for two academic corporations – The Academic Network, Inc. and The Shropshire Group, Inc. The Academic Network, Inc. is a diversity consulting firm which served over 100 colleges and universities last year, emphasizing strategies in recruiting underrepresented faculty, staff, and students. He continues working with state and national congressional leaders on measures of improving avenues of educational and corporate diversity. He has been affiliated with a number of professional organizations, including the American Bar Association’s Presidential Council on Diversity, National Bar Association, American Bar Association Diversity Task Force, American Association of Affirmative Action, Los Angeles Black Chamber of Commerce, Antelope Valley Black Chamber of Commerce, California Science Center Advisory Board, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund Selection Commission, American Association of Law Schools, National Association of African Americans in Human Resources, American Association of Community Colleges, and Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.