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Ross Miller

Ross Miller is senior director of assessment for learning in the office of education and quality initiatives at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Since coming to AAC&U in 1999, he has worked with planning and implementation of the Greater Expectations and LEAP Initiatives. Miller has also helped to reshape the content and processes of the AAC&U Institute on General Education. The Institute strives to offer a coherent curriculum that advances participants’ knowledge and skills in the processes and strategies of general education reform, learning centered innovations in undergraduate education, and assessment. Miller serves the Institute both as an AAC&U staff member and as an Institute consultant. He has authored, co-authored, and contributed to several AAC&U publications related to general education, assessment planning, and improving student learning of liberal education outcomes.

Prior to his AAC&U work, Miller was a tenured associate professor of music education at Nazareth College of Rochester (NY). During his thirteen years there, he worked primarily with the undergraduate music education program and also served as the director of the graduate program in music education. Additionally, he directed the college band, supervised student teachers, and taught applied trumpet and all levels of music education courses. He was president of the Council of Music Teacher Education Programs, an affiliate of the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA).

In an assignment as assessment coordinator for Nazareth College, he was responsible for assessment of the college's general education program. Assessment has been a long-term interest with particular emphasis upon formative, performance, and portfolio assessment. He has served as a question writer in the arts for the National Assessment of Educational Progress and worked on a NYSSMA team developing a high school outcomes test in the arts for the New York State Education Department.

Miller holds a B.M. and M.M. in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan and an Ed. D. in Music Education from the University of Illinois.