2023 Featured Speakers

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Plenary Session (Monday)

Plenary Keynote Presenter

• Ryan Gower, Chancellor, Illinois Eastern Community Colleges  

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, IUPUI

Plenary Panelists

• Debra Humphreys, Vice President of Strategic Engagement, Lumina Foundation
• Kate McConnell, Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of VALUE, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
• Bethany Miller, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, Macalester College, and Keynote Co-Presenter for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Track
• Ken O'Donnell, Vice Provost, California State University-Dominguez Hills
  

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Track Keynotes

• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (Monday) – Bethany Miller, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, Macalester College; and Ellen Peters, Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Planning and Student Success, University of Puget Sound
• Faculty Development (Monday) – Thomas F. Nelson Laird, Professor and Program Coordinator for Higher Education and Student Affairs for the School of Education; and Principal Investigator for the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement in the Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University Bloomington; and Allison BrckaLorenz, Associate Research Scientist for the Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University Bloomington
• Global Learning (Tuesday) – Kris Acheson-Clair, Director of the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR), Purdue University
• Graduate/Professional Education (Tuesday) – Craig Downing, Associate Dean of Lifelong Learning, Director of Graduate Studies, and Head of the Department of Engineering Management, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 
• HIPs in the States/High-Impact Practices (Monday) – Heather Haeger, Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice, The University of Arizona
• HIPs in the States/High-Impact Practices (Tuesday) – Karen Jackson-Weaver,  Senior Associate Vice President, Global Faculty Engagement and Innovative Advancement, New York University (NYU)
• Learning Improvement (Tuesday) – Kurt Schick, Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, James Madison University
• STEM Education (Monday) – Doug Tougaw, Dean of the College of Engineering, Valparaiso University; and President-Elect, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Student Affairs and Co-Curricular Programs and Services (Tuesday) – Amelia Parnell, Vice President for Research and Policy, NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
• Student Partnership and Engagement in Assessment (Monday) – Moderator: Nicholas Curtis, Assessment Director, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Student Panel: Bennett Apostol, Johnnie Brooker, Vanessa Wilkerson, and Paris Wooden, Marquette University