Skill Level: Intermediate

Jessica Fronczak

Does your campus suffer with low response rates on your campus assessments or course evaluations? You’re not alone! Our member campuses have shared with us that achieving good response rates is always a struggle. This webinar will address response rate strategies featuring best practices from two member campuses. Please join us for this interesting discussion and learn how your campus can increase participation in your next evaluations! Stephanie Helms Pickett, EdD joined Duke University’s Division of Student Affairs as director of assessment and professional development programs in October 2006. Stephanie previously served as director of academic development services in the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at Bennett College in Greensboro. She also has been an education consultant for teacher education with the NC Dept. of Public Instruction, compliance coordinator in community education for Durham Public Schools and also held various positions in student affairs at Meredith College, Barton College, North Carolina State University, and Clark Atlanta University. Stephanie Helms Pickett obtained her doctoral and master’s degrees in higher education administration from North Carolina State University and her B.A. in radio and television broadcasting from Southern Illinois University. Stephanie additional serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Education at Duke University. Mike Algozzine from University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Skill Level: Intermediate

Amy Feder

Looking to form an assessment committee or revamp the committee you already have? This webinar will outline some assessment committee structures, and we’ll hear from three member campuses about how their committees formed, their charges, and the role they play at the institution. Scott Mason is the Senior Associate Director of the University of Delaware's two student unions and has oversight of Greek Life, Programming, and Registered Student Organizations. Mason has also volunteered with sexual assault awareness advocacy, LGBT concerns, academic affairs and student life partnering initiatives, diversity planning, student conduct, and assessment. He received his Master’s in Education for College Counseling in 1989 from the University of Delaware where he has served since in a variety of capacities within the University Student Centers throughout his 20+ year career. He began working with student union facilities and quickly moved into oversight of student organizations. In the mid 90s to early Millennium he worked extensively with campus programming and was active with the National Association of Campus Activities (NACA), having been published several times in Campus Programming. He was recognized by NACA's Educational Foundation for a Multicultural Advocate award and in 2001 received the prestigious Patsy Morley Outstanding Programmer award. Katherine O'Dair is the executive director for the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs at Boston College, a role she has been in since 2009. Katie is responsible for the development and oversight of assessment efforts within the division of student affairs, the creation of collaborative programs with academic affairs, the management of the vice president's office, diversity initiatives within the division, and serves as the student Title IX coordinator. Katie holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, a master’s degree in student personnel and counseling from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in higher education from Boston College. She is actively involved in the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and presents both regionally and nationally on topics such as assessment of student learning, assessment practices, and graduate and professional student concerns. Katie is a past national and region 1 chair of the NASPA Administrators in Graduate and Professional Student Services Knowledge Community and served on the NASPA Region 1 advisory board. Catherine Whittaker from California State University – Pomona