NCSUE - Key Persons
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- Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science Executive Publisher, Science
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
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- Director
- Director of the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement
- Director, National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement / Director, Communication and Information Technology
Burton A. Bargerstock is director of the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement, director of Communication and Information Technology, and special adviser to the associate provost for University Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University. His work focuses on institutional research (about community-engaged scholarship and university outreach) and the utilization of information technology to support and enhance collaborations between the academy and society. He leads MSU's Outreach and Engagement Measurement Instrument project. Burton also organized the Engagement Scholarship Consortium's (ESC) 2011 National Outreach Scholarship Conference and remains active with organization. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE), for which he guest edited a 2012 special issue, and is a series editor of the Transformations in Higher Education: The Scholarship of Engagement book series (MSU Press). Burton is currently a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and the executive committee of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council on Engagement and Outreach. He recently served on the board of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and has also been a long-time member of EDUCAUSE. On campus, Burton is president of the Michigan State University chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and founded the MSU Web Development Community for Advising, Facilitating, and Enabling (WebDevCAFE).
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- Dean of the College of Continuing Studies
- Member of the Leadership and Management Commission of the University Continuing Education Association
Carolyn Dahl is dean of the College of Continuing Studies at the University of Alabama. She is responsible for a variety of outreach activities, including training and professional development; evening, weekend, off-campus, and distance education; Safe State; the Bryant Conference Center; and the Alabama Online High School.
Prior to coming to Alabama in October of 2001, she served as dean of Continuing Education at Eastern Michigan University. Before that she served as assistant director for Outreach Partnerships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Dahl is a member of the Leadership and Management Commission of the University Continuing Education Association. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Council for Extension, Continuing Education and Public Service of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, in which she serves as the chair of the Benchmarking Task Force.
Dr. Dahl graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's degree in American studies and from the University of Georgia with a doctorate in adult and continuing education.
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Support
Cindy M. Helms is Administrative Assistant I at the Office of the Associate Provost for University Outreach, Communication and Information Technology (CIT), and the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement (NCSUE). Besides providing general office support for CIT and NCSUE staff, she processes student and labor payroll on eTime and maintains and reconciles bookkeeping records. Helms researches the MSU Web site for activities, programs, and workshops for the Statewide Resource Network (SRN) and Spartan Youth Programs (SYP) Web sites.
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- Head of Sociology Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Director
- Director Emeritus, National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement
Diane L. Zimmerman, Ph.D., is the director emeritus of the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement. Her primary interest areas are higher education policy and administration, communication strategies, and outreach and engagement evaluation and measurement. Zimmerman has participated with the decade-long conversations and presentations on evaluating and measuring scholarly outreach. She served as a team member and editor of Points of Distinction: A Guidebook for Planning & Evaluating Quality Outreach; co-authored, with Robert L. Church and Burton A. Bargerstock, "Measuring Scholarly Outreach at Michigan State University--Definition, Challenges, Tools"; and wrote, with Peter McPherson, Robert Church, and Nancy Pogel, a chapter entitled, "Real-World, Practical Learning: Developing a Comprehensive Model in the Land-Grant Tradition, Michigan State University," in Learning to Serve (2002). She leads the initiative that is developing and implementing the Outreach & Engagement Measurement Instrument to collect information on faculty-based outreach activity. She is co-principal investigator of the evaluation of a K-12 philanthropy curriculum. In the past two years, she has given direction to the development of the Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting, and she gives overall leadership to various Web development initiatives. Prior to coming to MSU in 1991, Zimmerman held administrative and faculty positions in small private colleges and editorial positions in publishing. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Michigan State University.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director at the National Collaborative
Diane Doberneck, Ph.D., is the associate director at the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement, where she provides leadership for the University Outreach and Engagement Educational Programs Team, coordinates the MSU Graduate Certification in Community Engagement, and conducts research about community-engaged scholarship. Doberneck's research interests include outreach and engagement in the promotion and tenure process; faculty integration of outreach and engagement across their teaching, research, service, and administration responsibilities; graduate student and faculty pathways to community-engaged careers; international community engagement, including community sustainability; and effective strategies for professional development about community-engaged scholarship.
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- Associate Professor, American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Paul Spicer is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research in human development, behavioral medicine, and bioethics. He is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado, where he is assigned to the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, and a faculty associate at the university's Center for Bioethics and Humanities. He has led projects on genetics, addiction, mental health, and early childhood intervention, with support from the National Institutes of Health, the Administration on Children and Families (Head Start), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Substance Abuse Policy).
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- Professor
- Professor, Management Information Systems and Computer Science / Director, National Center for Small Business Information
Dr. S. Ann Becker is a professor of management information systems and computer science and the director of the National Center for Small Business Information at Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Becker has extensive experience in teaching, research, and consulting in electronic commerce, database technologies, Web and handheld usability, and software engineering. She has a MBA and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Becker has over 100 publications, and her research has been supported by Texas Instruments, IBM, the National Science Foundation, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Alzheimer's Association, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She has been awarded over $1.5 million in research grants as principal or co-principal investigator. Dr. Becker is also an associate editor of several journals.
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- Professor
- Professor, Higher Education Administration / University of Massachusetts
- Professor, Higher Education Administration, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dwight Giles is a professor of higher education administration and senior associate at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)[External Link] in the Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He also serves as the director of the doctoral program in higher education administration. His interests include scholarship of engagement, community-campus partnerships, internships, and service-learning; much of his work focuses on linking service-learning practice with research and scholarship.
He has co-authored numerous books and articles on service-learning research, including "Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?" with Janet Eyler, and "Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future" with Tim Stanton and Nadinne Cruz. Giles has recently co-authored a study of community-campus partnerships. He is member of the National Peer Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement and of the working group for "Creating an Academic Home for the Next Generation of Engaged Scholars." With John Saltmarsh, he is conducting a study of reward structures for community engaged scholarship at Carnegie-designated community-engaged campuses.
Giles holds a Ph.D. in community development from the Pennsylvania State University. He is the co-recipient, with Janet Eyler, of Campus Compact's 2003 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Service-Learning Award.
Dr. Dwight Giles, a leading expert on service-learning, will review service-learning's evolution from obscure pedagogical practice to institutional priority. Dr. Giles will reflect on the journey from the margins to the mainstream as service-learning has matured, both nationally and at MSU.
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- Assistant
- Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement
- University Distinguished Professor
Hiram E. Fitzgerald is assistant provost for university outreach and engagement and university distinguished professor of psychology at Michigan State University. Currently, Fitzgerald serves on two national committees. He is chairperson of the Committee on Engagement, which is part of a multi-university Committee on Institutional Cooperation. He is also a member of the Council on Extension, Continuing Education, and Public Service Task Force on Engagement. Fitzgerald is co-director of the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course (now in its 18th year), and is principal investigator of the Michigan local site component of the 17-site national evaluation of Early Head Start (now in its eighth year). He is also a member of a variety of interdisciplinary research teams focusing on evaluation of community-based prevention programs. His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, implementation of systemic models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. Since 1992, Fitzgerald has also served as the executive director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Fitzgerald holds a Ph.D. in experimental child psychology (1967) from the University of Denver.
Hiram E. Fitzgerald is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. He is president of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship and the Transformative Regional Engagement Networks, co-chair of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Committee on Engagement, and a past member of the Association for Public and Land Grant Universities' Council on Engagement's Executive Committee's Board of Directors.
Fitzgerald is past president and executive director of both the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health and the International Association for Infant Mental Health, and served as executive director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health from 1992-2008. He has been associated with the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course for 26 years; the Early Head Start National Research Consortium, the American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Research Center, the Native Children's Research Exchange, and the Tribal Early Childhood Research Center, all at the University of Colorado, Denver; and the MSU Wiba Anung EHS/HS research team monitoring workforce development and early childhood education in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan. He is also a member of a variety of interdisciplinary research teams focusing on evaluation of community-based early preventive-intervention efforts in Michigan.
Fitzgerald's major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, the implementation of systemic community models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. He has published over 500 journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and peer-reviewed abstracts. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Infant Mental Health Journal and Assistant Editor of Perspectives in Infant Mental Health, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education, Outreach and Engagement and the Journal of Community Engagement Scholarship. He is senior editor of the two-volume Handbook of Community Engagement and Going Public: Civic and Community Engagement.
Fitzgerald received a BA degree in psychology from Lebanon Valley College (1962), and an MA degree in experimental psychology (1964) and a Ph.D. degree in developmental psychology (1967), both from the University of Denver. He has received numerous awards, including the ZERO TO THREE Dolley Madison Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to the Development and Well Being of Very Young Children, the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Selma Fraiberg Award, and the designation of Honorary President from the World Association for Infant Mental Health. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 7, 34, 37) and the Association of Psychological Science.
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- President of Northern Kentucky University
James C. Votruba became President of Northern Kentucky University, a 14,000-student metropolitan campus located in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati area, in 1997. Under his leadership, the University has achieved national recognition for its regional partnerships and strategic planning.
Dr. Votruba came to NKU from Michigan State University, where he was vice provost for university outreach and professor of higher education from 1989 to 1997. Prior to his tenure at MSU, he was dean of the College of Education and Human Development (1983-1989) at Binghamton University. He previously held faculty and administrative positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Drake University.
President Votruba earned his B.A. in political science, M.A. in political science and sociology, and Ph.D. in higher education administration from Michigan State University. He is a frequent lecturer, author, and consultant in the areas of higher education leadership, strategic planning, and public engagement. Since 1995, he has been a faculty member of Harvard University 's Institutes for Higher Education. In 2002, he chaired the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' Task Force on Public Engagement. He is also a faculty member in the AASCU New President's Academy.
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- Director, Writing in Digital Environments ( WIDE ) Research Center
John A. Taylor joined the staff as an Associate Director in August 1997. He was appointed Director of the Commission's Program to Evaluate and Advance Quality (PEAQ) in the spring of 2003. In this role, Taylor works closely with all work teams within the office in overseeing the traditional accreditation review processes, and he works directly with more than 160 institutions as their staff liaison. He came to the Commission from Lincoln University in Missouri where he worked in various assignments for 19 years, the last eight as Vice President for Academic Affairs. It was during this LU years that he became acquainted with the Commission - as a self-study coordinator and writer, and as a member of the Consultant-Evaluator Corps. Taylor earned his B.S. in Music Education at Virginia State University and his Master's and Doctor of Music Education degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington. In conjunction with his music education background, he served as the Director of Bands at Hampton University (Virginia) for ten years before coming to Lincoln University.
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- Professor
- Professor, School of Planning, Design and Construction
John H. Schweitzer, Ph.D., is a professor in the Center for Community and Economic Development and an adjunct professor in the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement and the School of Planning, Design and Construction at MSU. He uses his knowledge of the social science research process to study the impact and effectiveness of educational and social programs and policies. His research interests include the measurement, study, and strengthening of the sense of community of residents in urban neighborhoods in order to promote empowerment and pro-social behaviors such as voting, recycling, volunteering, and participation in community-based organizations. Current projects include an evaluation of an effort to stimulate the knowledge economy in upper Michigan, a study of outreach and engagement in tenure and promotion processes, and an examination of the impact of the built environment on outdoor exercise. He has served as a Fulbright lecturer in Singapore and as a consultant/evaluator for numerous city, state, and federal agencies. In addition to teaching a variety of courses in statistics, research methodology, educational measurement, and program evaluation, Dr. Schweitzer has formally served on doctoral and master's committees for over 100 graduate students in 21 different departments at MSU, and he has informally assisted a similar number of graduate students with various aspects of their research.
John Hudzik has had a long and distinguished academic career at Michigan State University. He currently serves as the acting provost and vice president for academic affairs. Prior to this appointment, he was dean of International Studies and Programs, a university-level office that supports and encourages international activities throughout the institution.
He began his teaching career at MSU in 1974 with an appointment in the School of Criminal Justice.
In addition to his teaching duties, he served as assistant dean for special projects and lifelong education in the College of Social Science, as well as the college's associate dean for finance and personnel.
In 1987, he earned a Fulbright Award that took him to Australia to study that nation's criminal justice system.
His research interests include organizational and system planning, budgeting and personnel administration. He is a leading national and international expert in court administration, especially financial management and strategic planning, and in continuing judicial education for judges and court system personnel.
He is frequently a consultant to courts and judicial agencies in the United States and in numerous other countries, and publishes regularly on budgeting, resource management and judicial education.
Originally from Holland, Mich., Hudzik earned three academic degrees from MSU - a bachelor of arts in economics, history and political science (1966); a master's in political science (1968); and a doctorate in political science (1971).
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- Director, Imagining America
- Director, Imagining America / Professor, American Culture, English, and Art and Design
- Founding Director of Imagining America
Julie Ellison is the founding director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of colleges and universities that fosters the public role of the arts, humanities, and design by working for structural change in higher education.
Ellison speaks widely on issues relating to public scholarship in the cultural disciplines. She also works with collaborators in South Africa on the relationship between cultural work and publicly engaged scholarship there. Ellison served for four years as Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in English from Yale.
Ellison has served on the Board of the Michigan Humanities Council and on the Michigan Task Force on Creativity, the Arts, and Cultural Education. Her third book, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion, was published in 1999. Ellison's current research interests include the new politics of cultural knowledge and organized efforts to link poetry with democratic values.
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- Director, Center for Service - Learning and Civic Engagement
Karen McKnight Casey is the director of the award-winning Michigan State University (MSU) Service-Learning and Civic Engagement initiative. McKnight Casey is responsible for facilitating university endeavors that provide curricular and co-curricular, service-based learning, community and civic engagement opportunities for MSU students. She works closely with faculty, university administrators, students and community partners to ensure that opportunities are offered that meet academic, personal, professional, and civic development goals, while simultaneously addressing the community-generated requests related to service and capacity-building. In addition to her role as director, McKnight Casey serves as adjunct with the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and as field instructor in the School of Social Work, of which she is an alumna. Her background includes service in the Peace Corps, work as a resident director and academic advisor, and extensive professional experience working in community non-profit organizations. She is published in the areas of university-community collaborations and service-learning practice and research, and presents at national and international conferences. McKnight Casey represents Michigan State University in Campus Compact's The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN), and participates with a variety of state and community committees and boards.
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- Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman
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- Assistant
- Co - Director, National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement ( Former ) Director, Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative
- Director of the Community Evaluation
- Director, Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative
Laurie Van Egeren, Ph.D., is the director of the Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative. She served as the co-director of the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement from 2008-2013. She conducts both program evaluations and basic research funded by federal, state, and local grants and contracts. Among those are the Michigan 21st Century Community Learning Centers statewide evaluation. Van Egeren also conducts evaluation and research in STEM education, early intervention in low-income families and families with autistic children, economic and community development, and coparenting and family relationships. Her research interests are in applications of dosage in community programs, organizational contributions to individual outcomes, and evaluation use. She holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology and an M.A. in child and family clinical psychology from Michigan State University.
Laurie A. Van Egeren is Michigan State University's assistant provost for university-community partnerships. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and recently served as acting director of the Michigan State University Museum. Dr. Van Egeren conducts engaged research funded by NSF, NIH, state government, and foundations, including state evaluations of afterschool programs and child care consultation programs; early childhood science education; youth-driven spaces; parent programs for children diagnosed with autism; and programs to increase STEM college entry among African-American students. She is MSU representative to the Engagement Scholarship Consortium and is on the steering committee for the National Alliance for Broader Impacts, and a member of the APLU Council on Engagement and Outreach. She has a master's in clinical child/family psychology and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Michigan State University.
Marvin H. McKinney is a program director for youth programs at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, he develops and reviews programming priorities, evaluates and recommends proposals for funding, and administers projects.
Previously, Dr. McKinney was the associate director/community scholar in residence at the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at Michigan State University in East Lansing. While there, he conducted ethnographic research on pervasive poverty, coordinated the Institute's efforts in community research and outreach, and conducted an in-depth study of the delivery of early childhood education programs in the Flint Community School District.
Prior to working at Michigan State University, Dr. McKinney was a program officer at the C. S. Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan. His responsibilities included administration, pre-grant investigations, and evaluation in the areas of historically Black colleges and early childhood and parenting education.
Dr. McKinney has a breadth of experience in the field of youth. Positions he has held include director of planning and community affairs with the Mott Children's Health Center, program specialist for Title I, early childhood education with the Michigan Department of Education, and director of early childhood education with the Ann Arbor Public Schools. He also has served as a consultant to numerous foundations throughout the United States. He began his professional career as an elementary school teacher in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Dr. McKinney earned his bachelor's, master's, and education specialist degrees from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed a Busch Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in child development and public policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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- Professor, School of Criminology
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- Professor, School of Criminology
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Co - Chair of the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee of the National Science
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Peg (Marguerite) Barratt went to the National Science Foundation as program director for the Developmental and Learning Sciences/Children's Research Initiative in July 2002, and moved into the position of director for the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in March of 2004. Before going to the National Science Foundation, she was director of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at Michigan State University , where she holds appointments as professor of family and child ecology and professor of psychology. Under Dr. Barratt's direction, the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families emerged as a multidisciplinary unit that offers an infrastructure in support of research, policy engagement, and outreach, and works to facilitate university-community collaborations.
Dr. Barratt's Ph.D. is in developmental psychology from the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she has bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Michigan State University. She was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 19 years in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Professor Barratt's research is in the area of parent-child interaction with a focus on naturalistic field work. Special populations that have been the focus of her research include single adult mothers, adolescent mothers, mothers and fathers of young children with Down syndrome, families in Japan, and parents with preterm infants. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Mental Deficiency , Infant Behavior and Development, Family Relations, Developmental Psychology, and other journals. She has served as an associate editor of Developmental Psychology. In 2002 she was selected as a Fellow in the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Barratt is co-chair of the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Science (HSRS) and co-chair of the Security Evaluations Federal Advisory Committee.
Robert J. Morse, director of data research at U.S. News & World Report, is head of the America 's Best Colleges and America 's Best Graduate Schools ranking projects, both of which are published annually by U.S. News & World Report . He plays an active role in survey design, methodology changes, discipline research, and monitoring data collection. Mr. Morse developed most of the current methodologies that are used in the rankings, and has been working full-time on both publications since 1989.
Mr. Morse has been at U.S. News & World Report since 1976. Other positions he has held at the weekly magazine prior to his current job include director of research and member of the economic unit. He has also worked at the U.S. Treasury Department and E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc.
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- Vice Provost Emeritus, University Outreach
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- Psychologist and Psychometrician
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- Professor, Management Information Systems and Computer Science
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- Director, Community - Campus Partnerships for Health
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- Assistant Professor, Education, Cornell University
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- Professor, Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Economics, the Pennsylvania State University
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- Director, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the Pennsylvania State University
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- Senior Director of University Continuing Education at the Pennsylvania State University
Wayne Smutz is senior director of University Continuing Education at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has held a variety of outreach positions over the last twenty-five years. In his current role, he is responsible for credit programming for adult learners in central Pennsylvania and for noncredit professional and organizational development programming that serves all of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is co-principal investigator of the FOCUS project-Forming Outreach Community-University Systems for Engagement. This three-year project, recently funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, seeks to more effectively embed engagement within Penn State's faculty culture and outreach infrastructure. Within the University Continuing Education Association, Dr. Smutz is currently chair of the Community of Practice on Outreach and Engagement.