2021 Featured Speakers

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Plenary Session

Plenary Keynote Presenter

• Jonathan R. Alger, President, James Madison University 

Plenary Moderator

• Stephen P. Hundley, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, Professor of Organizational Leadership, Chair, Assessment Institute, Executive Editor, Assessment Update, and Host, Leading Improvements in Higher Education Podcast, IUPUI

Plenary Panelists

• Gianina Baker, Acting Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Keston H. Fulcher, Executive Director, Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS) and Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University
• Heather Mernitz, Professor of Physical Sciences and Chair of the Council for Student Assessment, Alverno College (note:  Alverno College is recipient of the 2021 Trudy W. Banta Lifetime Achievement in Assessment Award)

• Sister Kathleen O’Brien, Provincial Coordinator, School Sisters of St. Francis and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Emerita, Alverno College
  

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Track Keynotes

• Community Engagement – Jerome E. Morris, The E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education (in conjunction with St. Louis Public Schools) and Director of the Race, Class, Place and Outcomes Interdisciplinary Research Group, The University of Missouri - St. Louis
• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion – Gianina Baker, Acting Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Gavin Henning, Professor of Higher Education and Program Director, Master of Higher Education and Doctorate of Education Programs in the Education Department, New England College; and Anne Lundquist, Assistant Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Anthology, Inc.
• Faculty Development – Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Co-Principal Investigator, Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative for the Association of American Universities (AAU), Senior Scholar, BVA: Leadership for Learning, and Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Center for Teaching & Learning, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Global Learning – Jos Beelen, Professor of Global Learning at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands
• Graduate/Professional Education – Andrea Pfeifle, Associate Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Practice and Education, The Ohio State University; and Barbara Maxwell, Director of Indiana University Interprofessional Practice and Education Center; Associate Dean and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Indiana University School of Medicine
• HIPs in the States (High-Impact Practices, including ePortfolios) – Katie Linder, Associate Dean, Kansas State University; and Hal Weary, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and Parliamentarian, Academic Senate, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Learning Improvement – Megan Good, Assistant Professor for the Assessment and Measurement PhD Program and Associate Assessment Specialist for Center for Assessment and Research Studies, James Madision University
• NILOA – Gianina Baker, Acting Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• STEM Education – Olga Pierrakos, Founding Chair and Professor, Department of Engineering, Wake Forest University
• Student Affairs and Co-Curricular Programs and Services –

  Caleb J. Keith, Director of Institutional Improvement, Associate Editor of Assessment Update, and Producer of Leading Improvements in Higher Education Podcast, IUPUI; Ciji Heiser, Director, Assessment and Effectiveness, Western Michigan University; Joseph D. Levy, Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation, National Louis University; Heather Strine-Patterson, Director of Student Affairs Assessment, Appalachian State University; and Eric A. Weldy, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, IUPUI

• Student Partnership and Engagement in Assessment – Catherine Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, University of Edinburgh