INTERSTATE PASSPORT® REVIEW BOARD

R. Joel Farrell

Chief, Innovation and Planning, Air University

Joel Farrell is chief of academic analytics for Air University. He directs analysis, research and planning activities to improve the quality of education throughout the United States Air Force. He collaborates with leaders across the Department of Defense on topics related to quality and accreditation. Previously, he served as associate provost for student support and academic services of National Defense University. Joel earned his Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision with a specialization in educational psychology from Auburn University, a master’s degree in counseling from Auburn, a master’s degree in religion from Amridge University, and has completed postdoctoral studies in bioethics at Georgetown. Air University and Community College of the Air Force are members of the Interstate Passport Network.

Thomas Krabacher

Professor of Geography, California State University, Sacramento

Thomas Krabacher, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the department of geography at California State University, Sacramento. His academic interests are in the areas of population/demographics and climate change, particularly as they apply to Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has conducted fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Mali, and South Africa. For the past decade, Krabacher has also served on the statewide Academic Senate of the CSU, with responsibility for monitoring higher education legislation at the state level. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Michigan State University and Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Davis.

Margaret Doell

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Adams State University

Sherry Simkins

Interim Dean of Instruction, General Studies, North Idaho College

Sherry Simkins is the division chair for communication and fine arts at North Idaho College. As chair, she oversees programs in communication, journalism, fine arts, music, and theatre. She has been an instructor of communication since 2005. She also serves as a faculty discipline representative for the Idaho Statewide General Education. Simkins received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication at Southern Utah University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership at Idaho State University.

Michael Barr

Associate Vice President, Academic Program Development Review Online Synergy, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Michael Barr, Ph.D., is associate vice president, academic program development review online synergy at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Barr is an industrial/organizational psychologist specializing in leadership and motivation. He joined The Chicago School in 2001 as program faculty in the IO Program and as director of the school’s consulting center. Additionally, he has extensive experience in organizational assessment and selection test development. Currently, he is on a research team at Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. Prior to joining The Chicago School, he completed postdoctoral work as an organizational psychologist at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the University of Chicago. He earned both his Ph.D. and master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Lynn Lundquist

Registrar, Concordia University. St. Paul

Lynn Lundquist is the registrar at Concordia University-St. Paul in Stillwater, Minnesota. Lundquist has over seventeen years of higher education experience with fifteen years of management and ten years of training experience. Lundquist earned her bachelor’s degree in child development and family sciences with a specialization in youth, adult at risk from Purdue University and her master’s degree in management from Globe University-Woodbury.

Joseph Thiel

Director of Academic Policy and Research, Montana University System

Joseph Thiel is the director of academic policy and research for the Montana University System. His responsibilities include coordinating development of the state science and technology plan, organizing Montana’s Science and Technology Committee, transfer tools and policy, program approval and review, and system student success initiatives. Joe holds bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and liberal studies from Montana State University. He attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning both a master’s of public policy and a master’s in education. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in education, with a research focus on education policy, also through the University of Oxford.

Dave Singleton

Academic Officer and Student Ombudsman, Nevada System of Higher Education

Dave Singleton is the academic officer and student ombudsman for the Nevada System of Higher Education. In this role, David oversees transfer and articulation policies and responds to questions and inquiries from students and faculty about transfer and articulation. Prior to joining the system office in 2018, David served as an academic advisor for nearly a decade at four institutions-three of which are in Nevada. David has a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in education from Illinois State University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership from Grand Canyon University.

Susan Beck

Professor, New Mexico State University

Susan Beck is a professor at New Mexico State University where she has held department head positions in reference and access services and has served as head of instruction as well as collection development coordinator. She currently specializes in reference, library services, and library instruction. She has taught the library’s general education information literacy course on rotation since 1997. Beck has served on several of the university’s general education committees, including chairing the general education assessment committee. She is the incoming vice-chair of the university faculty senate. She received her bachelor’s degree from The Evergreen State College, a master’s degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree in linguistics from Ohio University.

Stephanie Luster-Teasley

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, North Carolina A&T State University

Brandi Nelson

Director, Academic Affairs, Lake Region State College

Brandi Nelson serves as the director of academic affairs at Lake Region State College. Her responsibilities include faculty and program support and development, accreditation, assessment, strategic planning, institutional research, and campus safety and security. Lake Region State College is a founding member of the Interstate Passport Network. In 2015, Nelson participated in the IPP-Phase II project, helping to develop the learning outcomes for the Human Cultures knowledge and skill area. Nelson received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mayville State University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Dakota, and a graduate certificate in higher education assessment and institutional research from Sam Houston State University.

Thomas Takayama

Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, Greenville Technical College

Wendy Caveny

Director of Institutional Research, South Dakota Board of Regents

Wendy Caveny is the director of institutional research for the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Catherine Olivarez

Associate Dean of Transfer, Articulation, and Alternative Credit Programs, Dallas College

Steve Hood

Assistant Commissioner of Academic Affairs, Utah System of Higher Education

Clif Stratton

Associate Professor of History, Career Track, and Director of University Common Requirements, Washington State University

Clif Stratton, Ph.D., is associate professor of history, career track, and director of university common requirements at Washington State University. He joined WSU in 2010 after completing a Ph.D. in history at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His research and teaching interests explore the intersections of racism and imperialism, especially in US contexts. Stratton is the author of Power Politics: Carbon Energy in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship (University of California Press, 2016). He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Historical Association.

Kari Brown-Herbst

Vice President of Academic Affairs , Laramie County Community College

Kari Brown-Herbst is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her responsibilities include faculty development and support and student learning assessment. Kari currently serves as faculty representative to the LCCC Foundation Board and is also a member of the Peer Review Corps of the Higher Learning Commission. Before arriving at LCCC, she received her bachelor’s degree in sociology with an education endorsement from Kalamazoo College (Michigan) and her master’s degree in education technology from Marian University (Wisconsin). Kari has 18 years of K-12 teaching experience in Alaska and Wisconsin and began her teaching career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Kiribati. She is currently studying for her Ed.D. in instructional technology at the University of Wyoming. Her research interests include investigating the impact of purposeful faculty development on student retention in the online environment.

Dave Singleton

Academic Officer and Student Ombudsman, Nevada System of Higher Education

Dave Singleton is the academic officer and student ombudsman for the Nevada System of Higher Education. In this role, David oversees transfer and articulation policies and responds to questions and inquiries from students and faculty about transfer and articulation. Prior to joining the system office in 2018, David served as an academic advisor for nearly a decade at four institutions-three of which are in Nevada. David has a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in education from Illinois State University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership from Grand Canyon University.

Sherry Simkins

Interim Dean of Instruction, General Studies, North Idaho College

Sherry Simkins is the division chair for communication and fine arts at North Idaho College. As chair, she oversees programs in communication, journalism, fine arts, music, and theatre. She has been an instructor of communication since 2005. She also serves as a faculty discipline representative for the Idaho Statewide General Education. Simkins received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication at Southern Utah University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership at Idaho State University.

Michel Hillman

State Policy/Transfer Expert

Michel Hillman, Ph.D., is an advisory board member for Interstate Passport and a founding co-chair of the Passport Review Board. He previously served as the chief academic and student affairs officer at North Dakota University System for 15 years. He received his bachelor’s degree from Slippery Rock State College in Pennsylvania, his master’s degree from Indiana University at Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. at the University of South Dakota in experimental psychology.

Peter Quigley

Professor of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Peter Quigley, Ph.D., is vice president for academic affairs at the University of Hawaiʻi Community College.  He is responsible for academic program planning, evaluation and assessment; course and program articulation; regional accreditation; federal higher education and workforce development issues, and collaboration with external agencies. He also has served as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and chancellor at Leeward Community College. Prior to coming to Hawai‘i, Quigley served as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Minnesota State University and as dean of academics/chief academic officer at Embry Riddle University.