
Independent Educational Consultant: College Planning and Admission Advice
Greater Denver Area

Independent Educational Consultant: College Planning and Admission Advice
Greater Denver Area
Mark Montgomery brings his years of experience as a teacher, professor, and college administrator to help his clients find the best college match--and then get in.
Montgomery Educational Consulting is a full-service educational planning company that can help students at all levels of academic performance to find the colleges that suit their abilities and aspirations.
We work with high achievers, late bloomers, athletes, actors, and students with learning differences.
College counseling, admissions consulting, higher education administration, curriculum development, instructional design, project planning, creation of foreign exchange programs, teaching, education policy, textbook analysis.
(Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
We empower students with affordable, expert advice as they navigate the college selection and admissions process.
We assist students in finding colleges that best fit their abilities, interests, and aspirations.
From the first meeting through the final college choice, we guide you as you map your college journey.
We work with clients from Colorado and around the country. Clients include students who are academically gifted, average, underachieving, with learning differences, athletes, and artists.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2001 — June 2005 (4 years )
Administrative Associate Dean; part of a small management team in a division of the school that had both a graduate and undergraduate program. In charge of community outreach, internal assessment, relations with foreign universities, and special projects.
Also taught courses in the undergraduate program in US Foreign Policy, History of Foreign Relations, and the Model United Nations.
(Higher Education industry)
1997 — May 2005 (8 years )
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 1993 — June 1996 (3 years 5 months)
Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Social Science. Taught courses in International Relations, US Foreign Policy, US History, and International Environmental Politics.
Nominated for a university-wide teaching award by my students and by my peers.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
February 1987 — June 1988 (1 year 5 months)
PhD & MALD , International Relations , 1988 — 1993
Teaching Cert. , Secondary Education , 1986 — 1987
AB , Religion , 1980 — 1984
1976 — 1980
College planning, college admission, higher education policy, K-12 education policy, international politics, international travel, foreign languaged (French, Spanish), local music, theater arts, skiing, hiking, reading, films.
National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC), Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA), Rocky Mountain Association of College Admissions Counselors (RMACAC), Colorado Council of High School / College Relations (CCHS/CR), Colorado Council for the Social Studies, Leadership Denver, Challenge School Parents