Editors: Susan Gano-Phillips Robert W. Barnett

SUSAN GANO-PHILLIPS is an Associate Professor of Psychology and former director of the Center for Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan–Flint. She co-chaired (with Robert Barnett) the 2005–2006 General Education Reform Steering Committee and served on UM–Flint’s General Education Design Team from 2006 to 2008. She completed a Fulbright Fellowship in General Education at City University of Hong Kong during the 2008–2009 academic year.

ROBERT W. BARNETT is Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Michigan–Flint. Before that he served as UM–Flint's Writing Center Director, Writing Program Director, and Writing Across the Curriculum Director. With Susan Gano-Phillips, he co-chaired the University's General Education Steering Committee during the 2005–2006 academic year; during that year, the campus created, voted on, and approved the framework for a new General Education Curriculum.
 

Contributors

SUZANNE BEAL is Vice President of Learning and Professor of English at Frederick Community College. Prior to FCC, she served as the Dean of Instruction and Chair of Humanities and Arts at Dundalk Community College in Baltimore, Maryland.

DAVID BRAILOW has served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Franklin College since 2001. Earlier he chaired a general education reform process at McKendree College, where he was Professor of English and Associate Dean. Recent publications have been on contemporary Shakespearean performance and on faculty scholarship.

NONA M. BURNEY is an Associate Professor of Secondary Education at Roosevelt University. She is also the Academic Director of the University's Center for Teaching and Learning, which was created by and for faculty to promote effective, innovative instruction. Through this position, and as a member of the General Education Task Force, she continues to facilitate processes that institutionalize general education reform at Roosevelt.

CHRISTOPHER DENNIS is Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and has taught in the English department and the Intellectual Heritage and Honors programs at Temple University. He led Temple's initial planning team to the AAC&U Institute on General Education and worked as administrative liaison to the General Education Executive Committee. He has also written and presented on a variety of topics on undergraduate education, including campus-wide reading programs, learning communities, and teaching assessment.

AMY GOODBURN is Dean for Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is co-coordinator of the Peer Review of Teaching Project and co-author of Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly Teaching and Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching.

TERRY HALBERT is the Director of General Education and Professor of Legal Studies in Business in the Fox School of Management at Temple University. She has been recognized as one of Temple University's Great Teachers and has long practiced interdisciplinary teaching which is evidenced in her approach to general education reform and also in her co-authored textbooks, Law & Ethics in the Business Environment and CyberEthics.

JOAN HAWTHORNE currently serves as Assistant Provost at the University of North Dakota, with responsibilities that include assessment and initiatives related to teaching and learning. She served on the General Education Task Force during development of the new program, and continues to serve on the Essential Studies Committee (formerly named the General Education Requirements Committee).

JESSICA JONSON is Director of Institutional Assessment in the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). She has led and coordinated outcomes assessment efforts at UNL since 1999 and was a member of the general education reform planning team. Currently, she is involved in the implementation of the new Achievement-Centered Education (ACE) general education program.

RITA KEAN is the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Textiles, Clothing, and Design at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has worked on the development and implementation of the ACE program and has administrative oversight of the ACE program.

ANNE KELSCH is the Director of Instructional Development and an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Dakota. She served as the co-leader of the Bush Longitudinal Study on General Education and co-chaired the General Education Task Force. She continues to work with faculty development around the new Essential Studies Program.

DEBORAH MINTER is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where she coordinated the Composition program and is currently serving as Vice Chair with responsibilities for course scheduling and instructional support. Her research interests include English education, writing instruction, and faculty development.

NANCY MITCHELL is Director of General Education and Professor of Advertising at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has taught at the university since 1990 and participated in the general education reform process at UNL. She now leads efforts to implement the new program.

PRISCILLA PERKINS is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences at Roosevelt University. She also chairs the General Education Committee of the College. As Associate Dean and one of the original members of the General Education Task Force, she is guiding her college's departments through the process of curriculum mapping, the second stage of general education reform at Roosevelt.

JULIE PHILLIPS, Associate Director of General Education at Temple University, is a former Assistant Professor of Teaching & Instruction in the department of Strategic and Organizational Communication in the School of Communications and Theater. In addition to serving as the Associate Director, she currently heads the General Education Assessment Team, and is responsible for implementing programmatic assessment of the new curriculum.

J. WORTH PICKERING is Assistant Vice President for Institutional Research and Assessment at Old Dominion University. He frequently conducts workshops at regional and national conferences on building the assessment toolbox and changing the institutional culture for assessment or for first year students. His other research interests are in the area of promoting student success among first year students.

TERREL L. RHODES is Vice President for Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He is Director of the VALUE project (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education), a major component of the Liberal Education and America's Promise, or LEAP initiative at AAC&U, focused on enhancing the quality of student learning and assessment. Prior to joining AAC&U, he spent thirty years as a professor and academic administrator at St. John's University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Portland State University. He is the author or editor of three books and numerous articles on politics, public administration, and assessment.

TIM RIORDAN is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Alverno College. He has written extensively on the scholarship of teaching and learning, and has worked with institutions nationally and internationally on issues of teaching, assessment, and curriculum design.

STEPHANIE ROACH is the Writing Program Director at the University of Michigan–Flint. A team participant in the 2006 AAC&U Institute on General Education, she served on UM–Flint's General Education Design Team from 2006 to 2008. Recently she has focused on contributing to the university's Higher Learning Commission Self Study on the topics of general education and assessment.

KATHLEEN ROUNTREE is Provost and VPAA at Ithaca College in New York after serving for three years as Associate Provost at The University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has written and presented on undergraduate education and assessment at the conferences of AAC&U, SACS, AASHE, CIC, and at meetings in her academic field, music.

BLASE S. SCARNATI is an Associate Professor of Musicology, founding director of the University First-Year Seminar Program, and current and former chair of the University Liberal Studies Committee at Northern Arizona University. He has been involved with general education and university curricular reform at NAU, including serving as President of the Faculty Senate, and was closely involved with the University Liberal Studies Program's most recent reform efforts.

STEPHEN SHARKEY is a Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Alverno College. He has consulted on general education reform, student assessment, and faculty development with colleges around the country, and co-chaired Alverno's General Education Committee.

THOMAS STEEN is the Director of Essential Studies at the University of North Dakota, where he is also Associate Professor of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Wellness. He's been involved in UND's recent revision of general education since the project's beginning and was appointed as the new program's first administrator in August, 2008.

LISA C. TOLBERT is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and chair of the General Education Council. She led a campus team to the AAC&U Institute on General Education and has spoken on general education reform processes at SACS.

KELLY TRIGGER is Associate Professor of English and current Chair of General Education at Frederick Community College. She assisted with establishing FCC's General Education Institute and is a former FCC General Education Fellow. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary studies, cultural competence, and cyberculture. Associate Professor

DEDAIMIA S. WHITNEY has a bachelor's degree from Shimer College (1971) and an MFA in fiction from Indiana University (1992). She joined the faculty of Franklin College in 1995. In addition to courses in the English department, she has also taught regularly in both the general education program and the liberal arts program. Professor Whitney represented Franklin College at two of the AAC&U's Institute for General Education and was the chair of the task force that facilitated its curriculum reform.

DAVID E. WILSON is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His present responsibilities include curriculum development, support for teaching, and international programs. Wilson's scholarship has focused on teacher development and institutional change.

STEPHEN C. ZERWAS is the Director of Academic Assessment at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is a frequent presenter of workshops and sessions at national and regional conferences on the topics of change, assessment, and general education reform. He is the author of several computer applications for assessment activities, including an objective builder wizard and content analysis programs.