NC State Undergraduate Assessment Symposium

Office of Assessment

North Carolina State University
Division of Undergraduate Academic Programs

"measure what you value, rather than valuing what you measure." -anonymous

Aligning Pedagogy, Curriculum & Assessment
Embassy Suites, Cary, NC
April 24-26, 2009

Keynote Speaker Dr. Arthur Levine
Saturday Plenary Speaker Dr. Marcia Mentkowski	Sunday Plenary Speaker Dr. Marilee Bresciani

SYMPOSIUM MISSION

The mission of the Symposium is to provide a forum for higher education professionals to exchange ideas, discover new practices and form partnerships to enhance the full undergraduate educational experience through assessment. The Symposium is designed to address both practical concerns and larger policy issues by providing attendees with ideas and tools that can be immediately shared and implemented at their home institutions, which range from community colleges to large research universities.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
	Arthur Levine, President of Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Arthur Levine is the sixth president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, he was president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He also previously served as chair of the higher education program, chair of the Institute for Educational Management, and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Levine is the author of multiple books, articles, and reviews, most recently When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student (with Jeanette S. Cureton).
Much of his research and writing in recent years has focused on increasing access to higher education and improving equity in the schools. Dr. Levine's numerous opinion editorials appear in such publications as The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post; and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dr. Levine has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, as well as the American Council on Education's "Book of the Year" award (for Reform of Undergraduate Education), the Educational Press Association's "Annual Award" for writing (three times), and 17 honorary degrees. In 1998 Change magazine listed him as "One of the Most Outstanding Leaders in the Academic Community." He currently sits on the Boards of Blackboard, Inc., DePaul University, and All Kinds of Minds. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Levine was also previously President of Bradford College (1982-1989) and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation and Carnegie Council for Policy Studies in Higher Education (1975-1982). He received his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

SATURDAY PLENARY SPEAKER
	Marcia Mentkowski, Director, Educational Research and Evaluation, Alverno College Marcia Mentkowski is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Educational Research and Evaluation Department at Alverno College. Professor Mentkowski directs the college’s educational research and evaluation department and chairs the research and evaluation council. Together, the department and council have responsibilities for college-wide research on learning outcomes, validating student assessment, carrying out institutional and program assessment, and learning from and contributing to the higher education community in various areas. Dr. Mentkowski has served on Alverno’s curriculum committee and is a long-standing member of the council for student assessment.
Dr. Mentkowski is principal author of Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond (Mentkowski & Associates, Jossey-Bass, 2000), a culmination of twenty-four years of study. The book received the Outstanding Research Publication Award for 2000 from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division I, Education in the Professions. Learning That Lasts is currently used in masters and doctoral programs (e.g., University of Michigan, North Carolina State University, University of Texas El Paso, University of Wisconsin), faculty development seminars (e.g., Emory University, Oxford College; California State University-San Jose), and faculty and administrative committees in higher education (e.g., California State University-Monterey Bay, DePaul School for New Learning). Dr. Mentkowski previously contributed to the design, implementation, assessment, and evaluation of a competency-based teacher education curriculum at the University of Toledo; and to individually guided instruction in the public schools (1968-75). Because of this work and her research and curriculum development in moral development and education, she was invited as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Center for Moral Education) where she served on the teaching faculty (1975). She was an invited visiting fellow for 2003 at University of Oxford, Institute for the Advancement of University Learning where she collaborated with Oxford faculty on learning and assessment.

SUNDAY PLENARY SPEAKER
	Marilee Bresciani, Associate Professor, Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education, San Diego State University Dr. Marilee J. Bresciani is Associate Professor of Postsecondary Education Leadership– at San Diego State University, where she coordinates the specialization in Student Affairs in community colleges and higher education. Dr. Bresciani’s research focuses on the evaluation of student learning and development. She uses naturalistic inquiry and grounded theory to explore how systems and processes contribute to student learning centeredness, which includes the study of leaders’ roles in these systems and processes.
Dr. Bresciani has been invited to present and publish her findings on assessment and is a leading author and editor of books on assessing student learning and outcomes-based assessment program review, including Assessing Student Learning in General Education and Outcomes-Based Academic & Co-curricular Program Review. Dr. Bresciani has developed and delivered several courses on assessment of student learning and serves on the editorial board of the NASPA Journal. She is a reviewer for the Australian Universities Quality Agency and is also a managing partner in an international assessment and enrollment management consulting firm. Dr. Bresciani holds a Ph.D. in Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction from the University of Nebraska and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Hastings College. She has held faculty and higher education administration positions for over 20 years. In those positions, she has conducted enrollment management research, quantitative and qualitative institutional research, course-embedded assessment, and academic and administrative program assessment. Previously as Assistant Vice President for Institutional Assessment at Texas A&M University and as Director of Assessment at North Carolina State University, Dr. Bresciani led university-wide initiatives to embed faculty-driven outcomes-based assessment in the curriculum. She has led reforms in outcomes-based assessment program review, assessment of general education, quality enhancement, and assessment of the co-curricular.

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