124th Annual Meeting and Conference 2009

8:30-10:30 a.m.

CIHE Workshop: High-Impact Practices in Assessment of Student Learning (Requires advance sign-up)
Presenter: George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education, Indiana University Bloomington

Moderator: Jean A. Wyld, CIHE Commissioner, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Springfield College, MA

Presentation: Workshop Overview, High-Impact Practices Worksheet

AAC&U Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Rubrics

Presentation by Kuh
 

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

CAISA Commission Meeting
 

10:30-11:45 a.m.

CIHE Plenary Address: National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Presenter: George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education, Indiana University Bloomington

Moderator: Richard Pattenaude, CIHE Commissioner, Chancellor, University of Maine System, Bangor, ME

Presentation: "More Than You Think, Less Than We Need" 2009, NILOA Press Release, October 2009

Presentation by Kuh
 

CIHE Box Lunch Follow-Up Discussion for National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Presenter: George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education, Indiana University Bloomington

Moderator: Richard Pattenaude, CIHE Commissioner, Chancellor, University of Maine System, Bangor, ME
 

12:45-2:00 p.m.

CIHE workshop: How to Assess Student Classroom Work for Departments and General Education – Part One (Requires advance sign-up)
Presenter: Barbara Walvoord, Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

Moderator: Jean A. Wyld, CIHE Commissioner, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Springfield College, MA

Handout for Barbara Walvoord workshop (Parts 1 and 2)
 

12:45-2:00 p.m.

CIHE session: Qualitative Assessment: Informing Practice
Presenters: Rebecca H. Brodigan, Vice President of Institutional Planning and Assessment, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; Michael R. Donihue, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Dean of Faculty, Colby College, Waterville, ME; Laurie Levesque, Assistant Dean and Academic Director of Undergraduate Programs, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, MA

Moderator: Robert Froh, Associate Director, CIHE

Presentation by Brodigan, Donihue and Levesque., Panel Study Handout (Levesque)
 

CIHE session: Using Senior Theses in Program Assessment
Presenters: Steve Weisler, Dean of Enrollment and Assessment, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; Wendy Hirsch, Associate Provost for Planning, Research and Assessment, Bennington College, VT; Elaine C. Wong, Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Moderator: Jill N. Reich, CIHE Commissioner, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Presentation by Weisler and Hirsch
 

CIHE Plenary Session: Work Force Skills for the 21st Century
Presenters: Marcus M. Kolb, Program Officer, Lumina Foundation for Education, Indianapolis, IN; Christopher J. Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Moderator: David E. A. Carson, CIHE Commissioner, Public Member, former President of People’s Bank, Hartford, CT

Presentation by Kolb, Presentation by Dede
 

3:45-5:00 p.m.

3:45-5:00 p.m.

CIHE session: Applying and Assessing the Impact of Cognitive Principles in College Courses and Across the Curriculum
Presenters: Victor Benassi, Professor of Psychology and Faculty Director of Center for Teaching Excellence, University of New Hampshire, Durham; Gail Fensom, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Writing Program, University of New Hampshire, Manchester; Christopher M. Hakala, Professor of Psychology, Western New England College, Springfield, MA

Moderator: Judith B. Kamm, CIHE Commissioner, Associate Dean of Business for Undergraduate Programs, Bentley University, Waltham, MA

Presentation by Benassi, Fensom and Hakala
 

3:45-5:00 p.m.

CIHE session: Using CIHE Data First Forms to Measure Institutional Effectiveness
Presenters: Lydia Snover, Director of Institutional Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Mary Ann Coughlin, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Springfield College, MA; Melanie Madaio-O’Brien, Executive Director of Institutional Research, Boston University, MA

Moderator: Doris B. Arrington, CIHE Commissioner, Dean of Student Services, Capital Community College, Hartford, CT

Presentation by Snover, Madaio-O'Brien and Coughlin
 

CIHE session: Assessing Quantitative Literacy
Presenters: Corrine Taylor, Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Program, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Maura Mast, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston; Lane A. Glenn, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA; Janine Lloyd, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, MA

Moderator: Jill N. Reich, CIHE Commissioner, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Presentation: Assessing Quantitative Reasoning, ACLU Quantitative Literacy VALUE Rubric, Wellesley College Quantitative Reasoning Survey, Presentation by Taylor, Presentation by Lloyd, Presentation by Mast, New Developments in College Algebra - NECC, Vision for Core Academuc Skills at NECC, Presentation by Glenn
 

CIHE Reception
Remarks by Elsa Nunez, Commission Chairperson, President, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
    

Community College Roundtable Reception: Preparing for President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative: Academic Acievement in the Early College Years

Presenter: Ann Coles, Senior Fellow, ACCESS (The Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships), Boston, MA

Moderators: Wilfredo Nieves, CIHE Commissioner, President, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT; Robert Ross, Director, BioTeach Program, MassBioEd Foundation, Cambridge, MA

Sponsored by the New England College Council

Community College Roundtable Reception, Presentation by Ann Coles, Presentation by Cummings

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

CIHE session: Evaluating Student Learning in Program Reviews
Presenters: Karrin Wilks, Senior Vice President, Vermont State Colleges, Waterbury, VT; Daniel Regan, Dean of Academic Affairs, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT; Joseph Mark, Academic Dean, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT

Moderator: Bruce Mallory, CIHE Commissioner, Professor of Education, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Vermont State Colleges (VSC) Policy 101, Vermont State Colleges (VSC) General Education Program Review Report Guidelines, Vermont State Colleges (VSC) Program Review Report Guidelines, Presentation by Mark, Regan and Wilks
 

CIHE session: Strategies for Engagement in Challenging Financial Times (roundtable discussion)
Presenters: Mary Jo Maydew, CIHE Commission Vice Chair, Vice President for Finance and Administration, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA; Susan Pease, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT; Stephen Keller, Vice President, Academic Affairs, Springfield Technical Community College, MA; John W. Miller, President, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT

Moderator: Neil G. Buckley, CIHE Commissioner, Vice President of Finance and Administration, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
 

Breakfast for Initial Schools (by invitation only)

Sponsored by ERB – Educational Records Bureau

9:30-10:45 a.m.

CIHE session: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Independent Project Experience
Presenters: Kathryn T. Spoehr, Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI; Nancy Friese, Professor of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; additional members of the Working Group on Cognition and Assessment, a project sponsored by the Teagle Foundation

Moderator: Debra M. Townsley, CIHE Commissioner, President, Nichols College, Dudley, MA

Presentation by Spoehr, Presentation by Friese
 

CIHE session: Internationalization: Defining Goals and Measuring Outcomes
Presenters: David S. Graves, President, Laureate Hospitality Education, Inc., Crans Montana, Switzerland; Adam S. Weinberg, President and CEO, World Learning and President, SIT, Brattleboro, VT; Ross Lewin, Executive Director, SEP-Study Abroad Programs, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Moderator: Patricia M. O'Brien, Deputy Director, CIHE

Presentation by Ross Lewin, Presentation by Adam Weinberg, Presentation by David Graves

AAC&U Peer Review (Fall 2009), "Study Abroad and Global Learning: Exploring Connections"
 

CPSS  session: 2011 Standards: Advancing the Work of the Commission
Presenter: Janet D. Allison, Director, Commission on Public Secondary Schools
 

CPSS session: Organizing the Major Components of the Self-Study
Presenters: George H. Edwards, Associate Director, Commission on Public Secondary Schools; Charles McCarthy, Associate Director, Commission on Public Secondary Schools
 

CPSS session: Transitioning from the Mission and Expectations to Core Values, Beliefs, and 21st Century Learning Expectations, and Analytic Rubrics
Presenter: Ann Ashworth, Associate Director, Commission on Public Secondary Schools
 

General sponsor session: The IDEA Center
Presenter: Steven Benton, Senior Research Officer, The IDEA Center, Manhattan, KS

The IDEA Center, a nonprofit conceived at Kansas State University in 1975 with support from the W. K. Kellog Foundation, provides product and services related to the improvement of teaching, learning and administrative performance. The IDEA System includes feedback instruments to rate teaching, department chairs, and other administrators. All rating instruments can be administered online.
 

CPEMS session: So, Now You Are Accredited.
Presenters: Celeste Bowler, Director of Elementary Education, West Warwick Public Schools, RI; Robin Rosenfield, Language Arts Coordinator K-6, Litchfield Public Schools, CT
 

CIS session: Preparing the Two and Five-Year Interim Reports
Presenters: Kathleen Lyons Wallace, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT; Paul Maestranzi, St. Pius X School, Lynn, MA
 

Coffee Break
 

CIHE Plenary Address: Rubrics: What Good Are They?
Presenter: Barbara Walvoord, Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

Moderator: Jean A. Wyld, CIHE Commissioner, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Springfield College, MA

Handout for Barbara Walvoord Plenary Address
 

CIHE Box Lunch Follow-Up Discussion for Rubrics: What Good Are They?
Presenter: Barbara Walvoord, Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

Moderator: Jean A. Wyld, CIHE Commissioner, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Springfield College, MA
 

Coffee Break
 

Plenary Address

Tony Wagner, Author, The Global Achievement Gap.
Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient for 2009

Sponsored by TD Bank Higher Education Group

Coffee Break
 

CPEMS/CIS/CTCI/CPSS/CAISA session: Following Tony Wagner: Overhauling Education
Panelists: Ann Reensternia, Head of School, Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, MA; Teri Schrader, Principal, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, Devens, MA; Nancy Naimey, Teacher, Consolidated Elementary School, Kennebunkport, ME

Facilitator: Anthony Pope, Principal, Weymouth High School, MA

Respondent: Tony Wagner

Report from the 125th Anniversary Committee
Presenters: Gregory I. Prince, President Emeritus, Hampshire College, Chair, NEASC 125th Anniversary Celebration Committee; Eva I. Kampits, Director, NEASC, 125th Anniversay Celebration Committee
  

General Sponsor session: LookInLearn
Presenters: Tom Love, CEO, LookInLearn; Matthew Cerullo, CMO, LookInLean, Wethersfield, CT

LookInLearn is the first new-generation web-service designed to work with schools and colleges of all sizes to extend the reach of existing teaching through mass-scale lecture capture and course management. Using inexpensive hi-resolution cameras, institutions can create videos stored and distributed online to lower costs, ensuring a range of applications extending mobility and communications.
 

CIHE session: Data First: Demonstrating Quality and Diversity in New England Higher Education
Presenters: Jill N. Reich, CIHE Commissioner, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Bates, College, Lewiston, ME; Wilfredo Nieves, CIHE Commissioner, President, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT; Stacy L. Sweeney, CIHE Commissioner, Northeast Group Vice President, The Art Institutes, Brookline, MA

Moderator: Elsa Nunez, Commission Chair, President, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT

Presentation by Brittingham, Presentation by Reich, Presentation by Nieves
 

General session: Education: New England’s Economic Stimulus
Presenters: Michael Thomas, President/CEO, New England Board of Higher Education; Philip Trostel, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Maine and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Faculty Affiliate; Alicia Sasser, Senior Economist, New England Public Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Terry Grobe, Program Director, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA

Moderator: Nadia Alam, Research Associate, NEASC

Presentation by Grobe, Sasser, Thomas and Trostel
 

General session:  The Value of Accreditation for New Schools and Candidates
Presenters: David L. Flynn, Director, Commission on Public Elementary and Middle Schools, NEASC; Katharine Pence, NEASC Board of Trustees and Principal, Consolidated School, Kennebunkport, ME
 

Commission Business Meetings - open to all conference attendees.

Banquet Meeting and Address

Address by: Richard Rothstein, Author, Grading Education,
Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient for 2009

Presentation of the Richard J. Bradley Award
Recipient: Richard E. Wylie, President, Endicott College, Beverly, MA

Sponsored by Sodexo

Continental Breakfast and Annual Business Meeting of the Corporation

CIHE session: The Washington Agenda for Higher Education
Presenter: Judith Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Washington, DC

Moderator: Elsa Nunez, CIHE Commission Chair, President, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
 

CPEMS/CPSS/CIS/CTCI/CAISA session: Global Citizenship: Empowering Students and Faculty – Part I
Presenters: Carl F. Hobert, Founder and Executive Director, Axis of Hope; and Boston University School undergraduate students.

Moderator: Hardin Coleman, Dean, Boston University School of Education
 

General sponsor session: Smarthinking Online Tutoring, Inc.
Presenters: Ed Weisman, Northeast Sales Director, Smarthinking Online Tutoring, Inc., Florence, MA; Paul Cochrane, Director of Course Design & Delivery, Graduate & Professional Studies, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, Standish, ME

Customized online tutoring and academic support programs are many and varied. This session will introduce those models that research shows have a positive effect on student satisfaction and retention with a focus on human contact and intervention. Examples drawn from successful sites, such as St. Joseph’s College of Maine, will be presented with attention to retention strategies for DL students that often is overlooked in using technology.
   

CPEMS session: Nutrition and Good Health: Stimuli for Good Learning
Presenters: Vanessa Reale, Principal, East Haven High School, CT; Doris Demers, Director of Food Service, York Public Schools, ME; Bisi Oyedele, Principal, Nativity Preparatory School, Jamaica Plain, MA; Dorigen Keeney, Director of Public Policy and Research, Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger

Moderator: James Morse, Public Member, Board of Trustees
  

Coffee Break
 

CPEMS/CPSS/CIS/CTCI/CAISA session: Global Citizenship: Empowering Students and Faculty – Part II
Presenters: Carl F. Hobert, Founder and Executive Director, Axis of Hope; and students from participating schools

Moderator: Hardin Coleman, Dean, Boston University School of Education
  

CPEMS session: Response to Intervention: Designing Systems to Support Student Success
Presenters: Karen DeWitt, Director of Special Education and Student Services, Ayer Public Schools, MA; MaryBeth Hamel, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Ayer Public Schools, MA; Maryann Minard, Director of Curriculum, York School Department, ME; Sean Murphy, Principal, Coastal Ridge Elementary School, York, ME

Moderator: Donna Roy, Supervisor of Early Childhood Pre-K-2, Lawrence Public Schools, MA
 

CPSS session: Using Assessment Results to Measure Student Learning
Presenters: V. Everett Lyons, Jr, Principal, Bristol Eastern High School, Bristol, CT; Mary Gadd, Bristol Eastern High School, Bristol, CT

Moderator: Joseph Goho, Principal, North Providence High School, RI
 

CIHE session: International Trends in Quality Assurance
Presenters: Carolyn Campbell, Head of International Affairs, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Gloucester, United Kingdom; Judith Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Washington, DC; Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Founding President, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Moderator: Debra M. Townsley, CIHE Commissioner, President, Nichols College, Dudley, MA

Presentation by Campbell
 

General sponsor session: Tk20
Presenter: Amy Levy, Senior Product Consultant, Tk20, Austin, TX

Tk20 is a leading provider of campus-wide assessment and reporting solutions for higher education. This session will describe how Tk20 systems help institutions to assess student learning, institutional effectivieness and ongoing program improvement through customized reporting.
 

CAISA session: Issues in International Education
Presenter: Richard Krajczar, Executive Director, East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (EARCOS)

Moderator: Peter Mott, Director, Zurich International School, Switzerland
 

General sponsor session: Clean Harbors
Presenter: Scott Metzger, Vice President, Project Services Administration, Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Norwell, MA

A leading environmental services company, Clean Harbors staff will review services it provides to schools and colleges including consideration of individualized programs and free audits for NEASC member institutions. Programs including elimination and planning for chemical, biological or petroleum emergency as well as H1N1 actions.
 

Luncheon Meeting and Address

Address by: Deval Patrick
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient for 2009

Sponsored by TD Bank Higher Education Group