Ann Franke provides advice and consulting services to colleges and universities across the U.S. With three decades of experience in higher education law, she offers solutions that are informed, practical, and cost effective. Through her firm Wise Results LLC, her consulting engagements have included:: governance matters, investigations, policy and handbook development, tenured faculty dismissals,Title IX, youth,protection, risk management, and organizational development. She has also served as an expert witness.

Ms. Franke spends a week every summer playing her cello at an adult chamber music camp held at a small university. She stays honest as a university law practitioner by sleeping in a dorm room on a thin mattress, using a shared bathroom, and eating cafeteria food.

Ms. Franke is a NACUA Fellow and in 2011 received an award for creativity in higher education risk management from the Stetson University College of Law. She previously held senior positions with United Educators and the American Association of University Professors. At AAUP she received tenure. Ms. Franke  won a Fulbright senior scholar award to study the development of private higher education in Australia. She earned her BA, MA, and JD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an LLM from Georgetown University. NACUA is an essential part of her professional life.