Throughout his ten year academic career, Mr. Shropshire has gained national acclaim for his dynamic and personalized lecturing ability. He has been interviewed by numerous radio programs and profiled in several publications on methods of creating effective diversity strategies for academic institutions.

After his tenure at Washington College as a recruiter, Shropshire received 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%. As a member of numerous academic committees, 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. Over his extensive professional record, he has reviewed over 52,000 graduate and 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, 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. While there, he also served on the Dean's Cabinet. 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. 

Mr. Shropshire continues working with state and national congressional leaders on measures of improving educational diversity. He has been a long standing member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Bar Association’s Presidential Council on Diversity, American Association of Affirmative Action, Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund Selection Commission, American Association of Law Schools, and the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals.