Accomplishments: Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Shawn Gerstenberger (Community Health Sciences) and Daniel Bubb (Academic Assessment) participated in the first Masters of Public Health Quality Assessment Summit hosted by ÐÔÊӽ紫ý's School of Community Health Sciences. Faculty, graduate students, alumni, community members, and employers gathered to attend the half-day event on March 7, engaging in…
Rainier Spencer (Academic Affairs) wrote an article, "'Only the News They Want to Print': Mainstream Media and Critical Mixed-Race Studies," which was published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. This is the first scholarly journal devoted to the topic of mixed-race identity, and it came about through the work of…
Anne Mendenhall (Online Education) was appointed as president-elect of the Design and Development Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). She will serve in that capacity for one year and then will be appointed president of the division. Previously, she served as vice president of communications. AECT is…
Chris Heavey (Academic Affairs), Carl Reiber (Academic Affairs), and Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment) presented a poster of ÐÔÊӽ紫ý's general education and assessment program at the Association for General and Liberal Studies annual conference in Indianapolis in September. The poster depicted the levels of ÐÔÊӽ紫ý's vertically integrated general education…
Michael Wilder (Online Education) has been selected to make presentations at three conferences. In October, he will present at the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association in Jackson Hole, Wyo. His presentation, "Evaluation of ÐÔÊӽ紫ý's Hybrid Learning Program," is part of a symposium on Learning about Program Evaluation by Doing…
Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment), Gregory Schraw (Education), David James (Academic Programs), Barbara Brents (Sociology), Kyle Kaalberg (Teaching and Learning), Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology), Penny Amy (Biology), and Ann Cammett (Law) recently published an article in Assessment Update, a publication that is widely read by assessment…
Kevin Kemner (Architecture), Jenifer Utz (Life Sciences), Louis Kavouras (Dance), Daniel Bubb (Academic Assessment), and Lindsay Couzens (Academic Assessment) recently made a presentation at the Association for the Assessment of Higher Learning Education's annual Assessment Conference in Lexington, Ky. The presentation demonstrated how a series of…