Other Program Planning Committee

Katie Conboy

Board of Directors

Katie Conboy

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stonehill College

Katie Conboy has served as chief academic officer at Stonehill College for the last decade.  She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts (honors) in English and completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Notre Dame in 1986, specializing in history of the novel and feminist theory.  In 1987, she joined the faculty of the English Department at Stonehill, and she attained the rank of Professor in 1998.  As a faculty member, she published numerous articles and co-edited Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (Columbia UP, 1997).  She chaired the English Department briefly before accepting a full-time administrative role in January 2000, and she currently serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  In this role, she has been responsible for a complete revision of the General Education curriculum, the implementation of curricular innovations such as learning communities and interdisciplinary programs, the expansion of Stonehill’s international program participation, the extension of undergraduate research opportunities, and the development of a robust career services office.  In addition, she has overseen extraordinary growth of the faculty, improved faculty development opportunities, and enhanced grant activity in support of the curriculum and the faculty.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Scott Evenbeck

Board of Directors

Scott Evenbeck

Dean, University College, Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis

Scott Evenbeck

Scott E. Evenbeck is Professor of Psychology and Dean of University College at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He joined the faculty at IUPUI in psychology in 1972, after completing his Ph.D. degree in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Evenbeck has been involved for many years in the design and assessment of general education, including the development, ongoing implementation, and assessment of IUPUI’s outcomes for student learning. He has also played a major role in various P-16 initiatives to support student academic achievement and in retention initiatives for Indiana higher education. He has given over 100 presentations on serving entering students and many articles and chapters on enhancing student academic achievement and persistence. He represented IUPUI in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Greater Expectations project and has served as a Task Force Advisor in the Foundations of Excellence in the First College Year. Evenbeck also serves as a resource faculty member at the Summer Quality Academy and as a consultant to several campuses in the BEAMS project. He served on the Advisory Board for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Evenbeck serves on the faculty for the Summer Institute on Learning Communities with the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education and on accreditation teams for three regional associations.

Category: About, Annual Meeting Program Committee, Board of Directors, Class of 2010, Committees, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Karen Erickson

Board of Directors

Karen Erickson

Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University

Karen Erickson

Karen Erickson, Ph.D., M.A. (Harvard); B.A. (Stanford) is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University. Previously, Dr. Erickson was on the political science faculty (emerita) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she also directed Arctic Affairs in the office of the Provost and a program in Science, Education, and Public Policy at the International Arctic Research Center. She has been a policy adviser to a number of Arctic organizations, and was a founder of the University of the Arctic. Her publications cover a wide range of subjects, including environmental policy, international relations, education in rural Alaska, and Arctic politics. A winner of two Fulbright awards, Dr. Erickson has held fellowships with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the Scholar’s Roundtable of NYU School of Law, and the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education. She was recently elected a SENCER Leadership Fellow by the Fellowship Board of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Linda Cabe Halpern

Board of Directors

Linda Cabe Halpern

Dean of University Studies, James Madison University

Linda Cabe Halpern

Linda Cabe Halpern has been Dean of University Studies at James Madison University since 2006. Prior to that, she was Dean of General Education 1996-2006, leading JMU’s general education program through a successful reform effort and establishing it as a signature program for the university and a national leader in general education outcomes assessment. As Professor of Art History, she continues to teach undergraduate art history courses and her research and publications focus on the history of English garden design. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA and PhD in History of Art from Yale University. Dr. Halpern is an ex officio member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Board by virtue of her position as Board Chair of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD).

Category: About, Board of Directors, Chair, Committees, Officers, Other Program Planning Committee