¡Hola! Salam aleikoum! Salut!, Bozho! Olá! Osiyo! Wilujeng enjing! Sawubona! My name is Brandon Youker and I am the founding director of the Evaluation Lab, which is housed in The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Evaluation Lab employs undergraduate and graduate students to design and conduct evaluations with Kalamazoo area public …
Hello, we are Kelly Robertson and Lori Wingate. We work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. We’re here to tell you about our journey into new territory – developing elearning – and our lessons learned along the way. Valeo is The Evaluation Center’s new evaluation elearning program. We worked to combine evaluation theory, …
Greetings! I’m Brad Watts, the Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. During my eight-plus years in this role, I’ve had time to observe many of the unique ways our center has worked to be successful and survive for over 50(!) years. One way for a university-based evaluation center such as ours …
Hi, I’m Samantha Hooker, and I serve as senior marketing specialist with The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. One of the exciting parts of my job is overseeing and marketing our long-standing speaker series, Evaluation Café. It’s a space for evaluators to come together to learn about and discuss new ideas. Let’s rewind to …
Hello! I’m Lori Wingate, director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. In 1999, less than two years after starting my job at The Evaluation Center, I was charged with developing and curating an online collection of evaluation checklists as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project to support STEM evaluators in their practice. …
Hello, we are Lyssa Wilson Becho and Michael Harnar, co-executive editors of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE). Lyssa works in The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU) as a principal research associate, and Michael is the director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation at WMU. In today’s blog post, we want to highlight …
Hello! I’m Lori Wingate, the executive director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU). This week of AEA365 celebrates The Evaluation Center’s 50 years at WMU. In this blog, I share a bit of the center’s history and factors I believe have contributed to our success and sustainability, mainly for the benefit of …
Hi, my name is Heidi Berthoud (bear-too), and I am the founder and principal at Heidi Berthoud Consulting. My team and I work on public health issues through community-based data collection and reporting in the Pacific Northwest.
We are Nubia Goodwin (Research Associate) and Carolyn Fisher (Research and Evaluation Scientist) of the Institute for Community Health. We are both members of a project team that conducted a social network analysis as part of our evaluation of a multi-year, national funding project focused on community power building.
Hi! We are Matt Feldmann and Sam Robison, and we are here to provide you with some context for what it is like to lead an evaluation practice and/or a university based research center that serves higher education clients. Matt owns and operates Goshen Consulting, a small independent consulting firm in Edwardsville, Illinois. Sam is an Associate Professor of Research in the Social Research and Evaluation Center at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana—note that I am not the director of our center, though I work closely with her and hope to have something useful to provide to this conversation!
