New
Department:
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
Effective July 1, 2009, a
new department has been created
that integrates the adult
education, business and
marketing education, human
resource development and comprehensive
WHRE programs from the
Department of
Work and Human Resource
Education (WHRE) into the
department formerly known as
Educational Policy and
Administration (EdPA). The
name of this new department is
Organizational Leadership,
Policy, and Development (OLPD).
It will offer exciting
opportunities for collaboration
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Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute
Evaluation around the world and in your backyard: Strategies, tips, & techniques
March 3-7, 2008
MESI pre-session, March 3-4 (2 full days)
Holiday Inn Select
– Bloomington, Minn.
952-854-9000
(near Mall of America and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport)
Registration form [.pdf]
Featured speakers will include Ross Conner, Jennifer Greene, Richard Krueger,
and Michael Q. PattonThe annual Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI)
is designed for professional evaluators, program directors in non-profit and for-profit
organizations, and others interested in conducting or using evaluations. Sponsored
by the Department of Educational Policy and Administration in the College of Education
and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, MESI provides a unique opportunity
in a small setting to learn and reflect on contemporary issues in evaluation with
national experts and practitioners.
MESI pre-session, March 3-4, 2008 (2 full days)
MESI conference, March 5-7, 2008 (ends at noon on Friday)
The Robert Beck Endowed Lecture: Ross Conner
Ross Conner is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where
he was founding Director of the Center for Community Health Research in the School
of Social Ecology. He also serves on the faculty of the Evaluators’ Institute (USA),
the Claremont Graduate University’s Evaluation and Applied Research Methods summer
institute (USA), and American Hospital Association-Healthforum (USA) teaching and
advising on community-based evaluation. In partnership with communities of many
types, in the U.S. and abroad, including Hispanic/Latino, Chinese, Korean, and immigrant
communities, he works primarily on community health promotion and disease prevention
using the World Health Organization’s “healthy communities” framework. He is a former
president of the American Evaluation Association and, in 2006 and 2007, was President
of the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE), the international
professional association for evaluation societies, groups, and networks around the
world.
The Mary E. Corcoran Endowed Lecture: Jennifer Greene
Jennifer Greene received her doctorate in educational psychology from Stanford
University in 1976 and has held academic appointments at the University of Rhode
Island, Cornell University, and presently the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her evaluation scholarship probes the intersections of social science methods with
policy discourse and program decision-making, with the intent of making evaluation
useful and socially responsible. She has
concentrated specifically on qualitative, mixed method, and democratic approaches
to evaluation. She has published widely in journals and books on program evaluation,
has held leadership positions in AERA and AEA, and was recently co-Editor-in-Chief
of New Directions for Evaluation.
Concurrent sessions:
- David Chapman and Christopher Johnstone, University of Minnesota
- Ross Conner, University of California, Irvine
- Gry Folge, Geir Hyrve, and Karl-Johan Johansen, Oslo, Norway
- Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Richard Krueger, University of Minnesota
- Vanessa McKendall-Stephens, FaceValu Consulting
- Randi Nelson, University of Minnesota
- Julie Nielson, University of Minnesota
- Michael Quinn Patton, Union Institute
- Michael Rodriguez, University of Minnesota
- Plus a NEW "Ask the Expert" session on Friday!
For more information, see Registration form
[.pdf] or contact Ann Mavis at mavis001@umn.edu
or 612-624-1489.
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