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Meet Dr. Nancy Barrett, Coordinator of Assessment and Accreditation for the College of Education and Human Services at UIS. Dr. Barrett joined our team this September with an EDD in Program Evaluation and Continuing Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As Coordinator of Assessment and Accreditation, she works with department heads and faculty identifying assessment needs and helping to build a system to address those needs. She enjoys helping programs identify future needs, methods of improving what is currently occurring, and demonstrating the department’s outcomes to outside sources such as ISBE.
Dr. Barrett also is involved with CASL, a university wide program at UIS that helps diverse programs improve the way they assess student learning outcomes. She says that she has always appreciated the UIS mission which emphasizes student learning. Dr. Barrett feels a ‘great fit’ with UIS, saying “I continue to be impressed by faculty dedication and hope to contribute to their continuing success”.
We would also like to congratulate Dr. Barrett on Western Washington University Human Services Program adopting her book , Program Evaluation: A Step-by-Step Guide, for their winter class, HSP 485: Program Planning and Evaluation. Well done, Nancy!
Congratulations to Dr. Day, Dr. Bogle, and Dr. Phillips, pictured here doing signings for their new book release!
Their new book, Exploring School District Reorganization in Illinois: Navigating Your Options, provides a glimpse of the many issues and considerations that school administrators, school boards, taxpayers, and parents confront when this topic arises in their communities. Since World War II, the number of school districts has gone from 12,000 to 855 due to school district consolidation and reorganization. The authors, Doctors Phillips, Bogle, and Day, hope that their book will provide a greater understanding of the process, complexities and history of the issues involved in school district reorganization to remove barriers and allow for open dialogue on the subject.
Congratulations to Dr. William Abler, chair of the Department of Human Development Counseling, on being named November’s Employee of the Month! For the full story of Dr. Abler’s commitment and work ethic, here is the link for more details.
On the weekend of September 19th, David Sye, Melody Eckenstahler, and Diandra Wilson, students in the Teacher Education program, attended our On Campus Conference for our online distance students who are required to attend class two weekends every semester. At this conference, attendees experimented with emerging technologies, such as 3D printing and Google Glass, to explore possibilities and evaluate potential benefits in K-12 schools.