2008 Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement
June 18-22, 2008 | Snowbird, Utah
2008 Institute Faculty
Institute participants will work with nationally recognized scholars and practitioners in the areas of institutional transformation and student engagement, inclusion, and high achievement. Each team is assigned a faculty liaison who will mentor team members throughout the five-day Institute. Individual consultations provide opportunities for teams to connect with all faculty members in order to examine their goals and their capacity to broaden, deepen, and sustain educational change efforts.
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Mary J. Allen |
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Mary J. Allen, consultant for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and other higher education organizations, former director of the California State University Institute for Teaching and Learning, and founder of the Faculty Development Center and the Assessment Center at California State University, Bakersfield
Areas of expertise: direct and indirect assessment of course and program learning outcomes; aligning curricula and pedagogy with learning outcomes; accreditation expectations for assessment
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Susan E. Borrego |
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Susan E. Borrego, vice president for student affairs, CaliforniaState University, Monterey Bay
Areas of expertise: student affairs; diversity; high-achievement programs; faculty collaborations; service learning; leadership development; enrollment management; class issues; community outreach
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Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen |
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Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, vice president for education and institutional renewal, AAC&U
Areas of expertise: policy and program development and evaluation; organizational learning; collaboration; diversity as an educational resource; student readiness, recruitment, retention, and achievement
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Jonathan Daube |
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Jonathan Daube, president, Manchester Community College
Areas of expertise: diversity, especially in personnel decisions; maintaining open access; community involvement; the politics of institutional change; education in the U.K. and southern and eastern Africa
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Gail G. Evans |
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Gail G. Evans, dean of undergraduate studies, San Francisco State University
Areas of expertise: implementing and sustaining campus projects; integrative learning; course-embedded and program assessment; general education; academic affairs/student affairs collaboration; first-year experience programs
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L. Dee Fink |
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L. Dee Fink, national consultant in higher education, former president of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, and founder of the Instructional Development Program, University of Oklahoma
Areas of expertise: institutional efforts to promote better teaching and learning across campus; faculty development; pedagogy; designing courses for significant learning; evaluating college teaching
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Tori Haring-Smith |
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Tori Haring-Smith, president, Washington & Jefferson College
Areas of expertise: strategies for institutional change; building diversity and globalism; pedagogies of engagement and inclusion; cross-curricular programs; curricular and co-curricular alignment; grant-making and fundraising
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Sylvia Hurtado |
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Sylvia Hurtado, professor and director of the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of expertise: student educational outcomes, including democratic outcomes; campus climates; college impact on student development; diversity in higher education; assessment and innovation in undergraduate education
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Patricia Iannuzzi |
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Patricia Iannuzzi, dean of university libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Areas of expertise: information literacy; research based learning; faculty development; collaboration and organizational culture; the educational role of libraries
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L. Lee Knefelkamp |
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L. Lee Knefelkamp, professor of psychology and education, Teachers College, Columbia University, and senior scholar, AAC&U
Areas of expertise: assessment of student learning styles and student intellectual, moral, and social identity development; integration of intercultural communication and diversity education; education for personal and social responsibility; curricular transformation; engaged pedagogies; sustaining organizational innovation and change; the psychology of change and resistance to change
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Judith A. Ramaley |
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Judith A. Ramaley, president, Winona State University
Areas of expertise: higher education reform; the changing nature of work and the workforce; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education; civic responsibility and the role of higher education in promoting good citizenship; leadership of change; grant-making and fundraising
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Carol Geary Schneider |
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Carol Geary Schneider, president, AAC&U
Areas of expertise: student learning outcomes; goals across the curriculum; re-defining liberal education for today’s students; general education; curriculum change; research on teaching and learning
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Damon A. Williams |
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Damon A. Williams, assistant vice provost for multicultural and international affairs, University of Connecticut
Areas of expertise: organizational change and management; diversity in higher education; ethnic and racial identity
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Faculty Members Will Help Teams
- articulate their goals and identify appropriate strategies to achieve them;
- develop relationships that will enable them to sustain their educational reform projects;
- address specific internal and external pressures that enhance or impede educational improvement efforts.
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