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Richard A. Voorhees is the principal of Voorhees Group. His background is in organizational change, program/institutional assessment and evaluation, resource development and community colleges. He is a nationally-recognized resource for organizations facing challenges in the areas of accreditation, finance and financial aid policy, evaluation of distance education evaluation initiatives, and competency-based approaches to providing and evaluating student learning. He is a former member of the Accreditation Review Council for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. More details about Rick Voorhees

 

 

Alice Bedard-Voorhees specializes in design and delivery of on-line education, faculty development, and assessment techniques for distance delivery. Her experience includes engineering statewide common course numbering and competency-based learning systems, corporate training, and creation of modularized curriculum for workforce development. Recently selected as the first K. Patricia Cross fellow by the League for Innovation in the Community College, Alice serves as associate academic dean of the Community Colleges of Colorado Online, a pioneer in distance delivery of accredited degree programs, and is the principal of Trainers-Online.Com.


 

Irving Pressley McPhail is the president of The McPhail Group LLC. A veteran teacher, scholar, advocate and senior executive in higher education, he has served as chancellor of The Community College of Baltimore County, president of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, and president of LeMoyne-Owen College. His areas of focus include the learning paradigm and the learning college, research-based "best practices" in developmental education and learning assistance, African American cognitive style and learning strategies, closing the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap, literacy education; strategic planning, budgeting, and resource allocation; and institutional assessment and organizational review. He is currently serving as a coach with Prairie View A & M University in the Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count initiative.

 

 

John A. Muffo specializes in assessment, including the evaluation of academic programs and learning systems. He has been active in promoting professional development among international higher organizations for several decades and is a frequent contributor to the literature of institutional research. His career includes service at the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, Cleveland State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. John also has been a reviewer for the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools on Institutional Effectiveness. He is retired from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) after 20 years of service, the last 15 as Director of the Academic Assessment Program.

 

 

Robert Reichardt is proprietor of R-Squared Research, a firm that provides applied research, evaluation, and policy analysis to support improved policy and educational outcomes. Dr. Reichardt's expertise includes systemic reform, school finance, and teacher labor markets. He has provided research support to state legislators, state boards of education as well as evaluation of state education reforms. He has extensive experience working with large administrative databases. He brings experience running a statewide non-profit focused on improving educator quality and work as researcher at a Regional Education Laboratory.

 

 

Theresa Rosner-Salazar is a psychologist and is engaged in evaluation consulting, program development, bilingual mental health evaluation, clinical services, consultation, and technical assistance for individuals and organizations serving multicultural populations. She has served as external project evaluator for a National Science Foundation Evaluation Capacity Building Grant with In Sites and Bakersfield Community College and has served on teams to evaluate the Expanding Nonprofit Inclusiveness (ENII) project funded by the Denver Foundation designed to diversify non-profit Boards in the Denver community. Dr. Salazar is cofounder of Research Evaluation Associates for Latinos (REAL) also located in Denver, CO.

 

 

Gregory P. Smith specializes in program evaluation, research methodology, and applied statistics. His administrative and research background includes project administration, marketing, proposal writing, research and sampling design, questionnaire design, data analysis and synthesis, and supervision of information systems. Dr. Smith is Executive Vice President at Central Community College in Grand Island, Nebraska.

 

 

Raj Sharma specializes in institutional research and planning. He has been active in promoting the internationalization of institutional research, being the founding member of Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) in 1988 and South East Asian Association for Institutional Research in 2000. His career includes teaching at secondary and higher education levels, and planning and institutional research in three Australian states. Raj has undertaken a number of consultancies and IR projects for the various state and national bodies including a national project on efficiency and effectiveness of distance education, development of the national higher education relative funding model, projects on student progress for the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee and workforce planning project for the Victorian State Parliament. He has served Swinburne University of Technology for 17 years, and is currently the Associate Director, Resource Planning and Analysis and Senior Research Fellow.

 

 

Dawn Geronimo Terkla recently has specialized in the creation of digital dashboards for institutions to monitor critical processes and performance measures. Dawn also is a recognized authority in intra-institutional data sharing and has chaired several national higher education task forces. She is past chair of the executive committee for the National Postsecondary Cooperative. Dr. Terkla is the Executive Director of Institutional Research at Tufts University.

 

 

Robert Toutkoushian is an economist. He performs studies of faculty compensation including comparisons by gender, race/ethnicity, and experience, and peer institution comparisons. Rob also works with institutions and organizations to identify factors underlying student enrollment decisions including models of the interrelationships among enrollments, finances, and other objectives, and to identify the costs and benefits of various institutional and system strategies. He is Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University.

 

 

Clifford M. Trump is a former state higher education executive officer for the state colleges of West Virginia and a former college president. Dr. Trump is in frequent demand as a speaker on issues facing higher education. His expertise is in executive management reviews and presidential searches and evaluation. He brings a wealth of higher education upper management experience and national work in policy to the Voorhees Group.

 

 

Randall VanWagoner is Vice President for Educational Services at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. He specializes in curriculum development, strategic planning, and administrative evaluation. Randall VanWagoner is Vice President for Educational Services at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. He specializes in curriculum development and assessment processes, strategic planning, and administrative evaluation. Dr. VanWagoner has also served as a community college institutional research director, Registrar, and chief student affairs officer.

 

 

John Wittstruck has extensive experience in leading statewide initiatives in planning, research, policy analysis and development. He has been engaged in institutional mission review and differentiation, performance measures and accountability, student financial assistance, and proprietary school certification. John's expertise also includes community colleges, postsecondary technical education, and research as well information technology data processing and computer support. Dr. Wittstruck has served the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education in a variety of roles including that of Assistant Commissioner.