National Advisory Board

The Center for Leading Improvements in Higher Education at Indiana University Indianapolis is the superordinate structure under which several activities reside, including the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis and its affiliated resources. A 28-member National Advisory Board provides guidance to the Center’s activities. The current membership roster appears below.

Divya Bheda, Director of Educational Assessment, Santa Clara University 

Katie Busby, Director of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning, University of Mississippi; and Associate Editor, Assessment Update 

Nicholas Curtis, Director of Assessment, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Editor-in-Chief, Research & Practice in Assessment 

Jerry Daday, Co-Founder, HIPs in the States; Managing Editor, Assessment Update; and Professor of Sociology, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University Indianapolis 

Renée Delgado-Riley, President, Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL); and Director, Assessment and Research, Division of Student Life, University of Oregon 

Erica Eckert, Assistant Professor, Higher Education Administration, Kent State University; and Associate Editor, Assessment Update 

Tami Eitle, Dean, School of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Sociology, Indiana University Indianapolis 

Keston Fulcher, Improvement Strategist and Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University 

Megan Good, Executive Director, Center for Assessment and Research Studies, and Assistant Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University 

Gavin Henning, Professor of Higher Education, Director of Doctor of Education and Master of Science in Higher Education Administration Programs, and Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, New England College 

Yao Hill, Faculty Specialist, Assessment and Curriculum Support Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 

Mark Howse, Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness, Morehouse School of Medicine; and Chair, HBCU Collaborative for Excellence in Educational Quality Assurance 

Stephen P. Hundley, Professor of Organizational Leadership and Founding Executive Director, Center for Leading Improvements in Higher Education, Indiana University Indianapolis (Ex Officio) 

Jarek Janio, Co-founder, California Outcomes & Assessment Coordinator Hub; and Assistant Professor, Santa Ana College 

Natasha Jankowski, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Editor, Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness 

Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University Bloomington 

Joseph D. Levy, Associate Vice Provost of Accreditation and Quality Improvement, Excelsior University 

John V. Moore III, Director, Data Initiatives, National Board of Medical Examiners; and Associate Editor, Assessment Update 

Mark Nicholas, Vice President, New England Commission of Higher Education 

Ken O’Donnell, Provost, University of La Verne; Co-Founder, HIPs in the States; and Editor-in-Chief, Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 

Franz Reneau, Assistant Provost for Academic Effectiveness, Georgia Tech; and Co-Chair, HBCU Collaborative for Excellence in Educational Quality Assurance 

Christine Robinson, Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Co-Director, Grand Challenges in Assessment Project 

Karen Singer-Freeman, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning Excellence, Center for Teaching Excellence, George Washington University; and Co-Director, Grand Challenges in Assessment Project 

Ruth Slotnick, Director of Assessment, Bridgewater State University; and Co-Lead, Generative Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice, Assessment Institute in Indianapolis 

Heather Strine-Patterson, Director of Student Affairs Assessment, Evaluation, and Data Strategy, Virginia Tech; and Editor, Journal of Student Affairs Inquiry, Improvement, and Impact 

Carleen Vande Zande, Chief Academic Officer, National Association of Higher Education Systems 

Stevan Veldkamp, Director, Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research, and Special Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs, The Pennsylvania State University 

PJ Woolston, Director of Strategic Insights, Lumina Foundation