My name is Mary Lou D’Allegro and I am the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Columbia State Community College. I am responsible for the quality of our programs and the faculty who teach in those programs. There is not much that is NOT evaluated in higher education. The double negative was intended. Yet, for all …
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I am Serdar Bayryyev, an evaluation officer at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and would like to share and interesting example of using modern remote sensing tools in evaluation work. Hot Tip: Our recent evaluation of the large, multi-million dollar irrigation rehabilitation programme in Afghanistan has benefitted from the use of the tool …
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Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365 Leader Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with tips for tackling conference proposals. Lesson Learned: Acceptance is not a sure thing. Just because you’ve written a good paper, have a skill to demonstrate that others want to learn, or have stellar results from an innovative evaluation, you must be able to …
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Hi, I’m Cynthia Gonzalez, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Public Health and Associate Director in the Division of Community Engagement at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU). At CDU, I am able to teach courses in public health, community engagement, health disparities, and health equity, while also running …
MSI Fellowship Week: Reflections of an AEA MSI Fellow by Cynthia Gonzalez Read More »
Hello! My name is Lu Liu and I am an Assistant Professor in the La Fetra College of Education at the University of La Verne. I am faculty in the Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership Program teaching research method courses and I am interested in developing evaluation courses that integrate Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) …
Greetings, everyone! I am Tiffany J. Davis, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Houston, and a Fellow in the AEA Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Faculty Initiative. I teach courses related to assessment, evaluation, and research methods in postsecondary education. Throughout our MSI Fellowship year, we have been introduced to the …
Hello! This is Tiberio Garza, an Assistant Professor and Associate Director for the Center of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment (CREA) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Translating cultural responsive theory to evaluation practice is not always an easy task. The biggest struggles we see reported in the literature central around five areas: a) working …
Hi, my name is Shetay Ashford-Hanserd. I am entering my third year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies at Texas State University, where I developed a course entitled Program Evaluation in Career and Technical Education. Since my research agenda focuses on broadening participation of women and historically underrepresented minorities …
Greetings! This is Darla Scott and I participated as an AEA 2018 MSI Fellow. I also enjoy serving as an Assistant Professor in the School Psychology program at Bowie State University. At Bowie State University, we maintain a specialist-level three year NASP-approved program that focuses on creating culturally competent school psychologists, and I have the …
Hi, we are Janet Mou Pataky, Manager of Accountability & Evaluation and Diana Tindall, Evaluator with the Rick Hansen Institute (RHI). RHI is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organization that drives innovation in spinal cord injury (SCI) research. We evaluate SCI research programs and projects. Until recently, Diana was an external evaluator. One of the first things …
