Featured Speakers

Plenary Speaker and Panel 

Plenary Keynote Presenter

• Teresa Leyba Ruiz, President, Glendale Community College

Plenary Moderator

• Stephen P. Hundley, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, Professor of Organizational Leadership, Chair, Assessment Institute, Executive Editor, Assessment Update, and Host, Leading Improvements in Higher Education Podcast Series, IUPUI

Plenary Panelists

• Keston H. Fulcher, Executive Director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS), James Madison University
• Natasha Jankowski, Executive Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and Research Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership (EPOL), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement Institute, Indiana University—Bloomington, and NILOA Senior Scholar
• Verna F. Orr, Co-Chair, HBCU Collaborative for Excellence in Educational Quality Assurance and Postdoctoral Research Associate for NILOA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Track Keynotes

• Community Engagement – Valerie Holton, Holton Consulting, LLC
• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion – Virginia Valian, Distinguished Professor, Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project, and Director, Language Acquisition Research Center, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
• Faculty Development – Pat Hutchings, Trudy W. Banta Lifetime Achievement Assessment Award Recipient, Senior Scholar, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and Senior Scholar, Bay View Alliance (BVA)
• Global Learning – Roger Brindley, Vice Provost for Global Programs, The Pennsylvania State University 
• Graduate Education – Michael Finley, Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Kansas Health Science Center (Wichita)
• HIPs in the States (High-Impact Practices, including ePortfolios) – Susan Kahn, Director of Planning and Institutional Improvement Initiatives, IUPUI; and Robin Schofield, Associate Professor of English and Director of High Impact Practices, Pikes Peak Community College
• Learning Improvement – Marsha Lovett, Associate Vice Provost for Educational Innovation and Learning Analytics, Director, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation, and Co-coordinator of The Simon Initiative, and Professor of Psychology (Teaching), Carnegie Mellon University
• NILOA – Natasha Jankowski, Executive Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and Research Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership (EPOL), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• STEM Education – Fred A. Bonner II, Executive Director, Minority Achievement, Creativity and High Ability (MACH-III) Center, and Professor Prairie View A&M University
• Student Affairs Programs and Services – Frank Shushok, Jr., Vice President for Student Affairs, Virginia Tech