2024 Featured Speakers

To view the 2024 presentations by themes and topics, please click here.

Plenary Session

Plenary Keynote Presenter

• Richard L. Dunsworth, President, University of the Ozarks; and Chair, Board of Trustees, Higher Learning Commission

Plenary Moderator

• Stephen P. Hundley, Founding Executive Director, Center for Leading Improvements in Higher Education; Professor of Organizational Leadership; Chair, Assessment Institute; Executive Editor, Assessment Update; and Host, Leading Improvements in Higher Education, Indiana University Indianapolis

Plenary Panelists

• Mark Howse, Chair, HBCU Collaborative for Excellence in Educational Quality Assurance (HBCU‑CEEQA); and Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Director of Educational Outcomes and Assessment, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director, National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University Bloomington
• Kate McConnell, Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of VALUE, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
  
• Carleen Vande Zande, Chief Academic Officer, National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH)

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Thematic Keynotes

In addition to the plenary session, the Assessment Institute will offer 10 thematic keynote sessions—5 on Monday and 5 on Tuesday—focused on: 

• Engaged Learning
• Inclusive Environments
• Innovative Instruction
• Strategic Directions
• Student Success

Below are the speakers for these thematic keynotes. More information about each session will be provided in program materials shared closer to the Institute dates.

• Engaged Learning – William Franklin, Vice President for Student Affairs, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Engaged Learning – Lorrie A. Brown, Executive Director of Student Engagement for the Institute of Engaged Learning, Indiana University Indianapolis; Catherine Chan, Assistant Vice Provost for High Impact Practices in the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Jerry Daday (Moderator), Executive Associate Dean, Institute for Engaged Learning, Indiana University Indianapolis; Mark Urtel, Department Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Kinesiology in the School of Health and Human Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis; and Carleen Vande Zande, Chief Academic Officer, National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH)
• Inclusive Environments – LeRoy Jones II, Science Education Administrator at the National Science Foundation; Program Director for the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), and Program Director for the Historically Black Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Programs (HBCU-UP)
• Inclusive Environments – 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; and Erick Montenegro, Founder and Executive Director, Insightful Conexión
• Innovative Instruction – John Zumbrunnen, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Innovative Instruction – C. Edward Watson, Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
• Strategic Directions – Mark Nicholas, Vice President, New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE); and Ruth Slotnick, Director of Assessment, Bridgewater State University
• Strategic Directions – David A. Eubanks, Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, Furman University; Laura M. Gambino, Vice President, New England Commission of Higher Education; Megan R. Good, Executive Director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS) and Assistant Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University; Josephine Welsh, Associate Vice President for Accreditation and Assessment, LeTourneau University; and Autumn Wild, (Moderator), Graduate Assistant for the Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS), James Madison University
• Student Success – Shaun Boren, Director of Assessment and Research in the Division of Student Life, University of Florida; Renée Delgado-Riley, Director of Student Life Assessment and Research in the Division of Student Life, University of Oregon; Paul Holliday-Millard, Senior Research Associate, Assessment and Qualitative Research in the Office of Student Affairs Research and Assessment, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Kimberly Kruchen, Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer, University of Colorado Boulder; Joseph D. Levy (Moderator), Associate Vice Provost of Accreditation and Quality Improvement, Excelsior University; and Tori Rehr, Senior Program Review and Strategic Planning Analyst in the Center for the Study of Student Life, The Ohio State University
• Student Success – Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, Vice President for Student Success, Indiana University