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Tuesday, October 25th, 2018 at 12:00pm MT

What’s involved in creating a Passport Block? Who and what should be included? How long will it take? What happens when it’s completed? If you are curious about these questions, this webinar is for you. Come learn about how to construct a Passport Block from the perspectives of both 2-year and 4-year institutions.

Speakers

Kari Brown-Herbst, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Laramie County Community College

Kari Brown-Herbst is the Director for the Center for Teaching & Learning 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 Master’s in Education Technology from Marian University (Wisconsin) and her Bachelor’s in Sociology with an Education endorsement from Kalamazoo College (Michigan). 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.

Thomas B. Steen, Professor Emeritus, University of North Dakota

Tom Steen is the Past Director of Essential Studies, the University of North Dakota’s program in general education. Tom was appointed as the first Essential Studies director when the program was implemented in 2008, and he frequently speaks and writes about GE issues such as program design, student learning assessment, and transfer policy. Tom also served as the president of the North Dakota General Education Council in its initial year, co-led the state’s work in the AAC&U’s Quality Collaboratives project, and is now serving his second term on the Executive Council of the Association of General and Liberal Studies (AGLS). He received his education at Calvin College (A.B.), University of Oregon (M.S.), and the Ohio State University (Ph.D.). Tom’s academic specialty is teacher education for physical education; he is also a Professor Emeritus at UND in Kinesiology and Public Health.

Thursday, September 29th, 2016 at 11:00am MT

What do student mobility and transfer pathways look like in the nation today? What’s their relationship to student success? Find out what data from the National Student Clearinghouse tell us in answer to these questions and where there might be some opportunities to better serve our growing transfer population.

Speaker

Afet Dundar, Director, National Student Clearinghouse Research, National Student Clearinghouse

Afet Dundar is Director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. She plays a leading role in producing the Research Center’s Signature Report series of national reports on student outcomes and annual High School Benchmarks Report. Dr Dundar is responsible for the daily operations of the Research Center, as well as has a leadership role in developing the center’s research agenda. She has contributed to numerous publications on student access and success outcomes. Prior to joining the Clearinghouse, Dundar was assistant director for research at the Project on Academic Success (PAS) at Indiana University. She has a Ph.D. in education policy studies from Indiana University Bloomington.

Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 at 12:00pm MT

How to use Aqua by Taskstream to upload and score assignments

Speakers:

Janine Fusco

Jeff Reid, Taskstream

Thursday, August 25th, 2016 at 2:00pm MT

This webinar provides an overview of the Interstate Passport Mapping Pilot including the participants and their roles, how the pilot is being approached, faculty work load, uploading assignments and artifacts, and other resources, and reports. Subsequent webinars will give you a more detailed look at uploading and scoring assignments and student artifacts.

Speaker

Robert Turner, Passport State Coordinator, WICHE

Robert “Bob” Turner retired in June 2011 after four years as Oregon University System assistant vice chancellor for academic standards and collaborations. He worked with Oregon’s public universities, statewide faculty senate, and K‐12 and community college leadership on student learning and student transitions among educational institutions. Turner received a B.S. in biology from Seattle University and a Ph.D. in embryology from the University of Oregon, and taught and conducted biology research for over 30 years. He is an emeritus professor of biology at Western Oregon University, where he was honors program director and interim dean of liberal arts and sciences.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 at 12:00pm MT

In the Interstate Passport program, Proficiency Criteria are examples of assignments faculty currently use for students to show proficiency with the Passport Learning Outcomes (PLOs). Find out how these sample lists were created by faculty, why they are assignments that are not required of Passport participant faculty, and why they are examples and not exhaustive lists. Learn about the role of the PC in creating a common understanding about faculty expectations for student achievement of the PLOs at the transfer level.

Speaker

Terry Underwood, Passport Proficiency Criteria Specialist, WICHE Terry Underwood is emeritus professor of curriculum and instruction at Sacramento State University in California. Underwood received his B.S. and M.A. in English from Illinois State University and his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy from the University of California-Davis. Having taught in the K-12 system since the mid-1980s, Underwood taught courses in literacy instruction and assessment at Sacramento State beginning in 1997.

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 at 12:00pm MT

Along with faculty, academic advisors, administrators and others, registrars and institutional researchers have been critical players in the development of the Interstate Passport, a program that facilitates block transfer of lower division general education. Learn about the important role registrars and institutional researchers now play in the successful implementation of the Interstate Passport program at their institution.

Speakers

Patricia “Pat” Shea, Director, Academic Leadership Initiatives, Principal Investigator, Interstate Passport, WICHE

Roland Squire, Passport Registrar Expert, WICHE

Roland Squire has served as the university registrar for Utah State University (USU) for four years. He has worked on the Interstate Passport project from its start. Prior to working for USU he had a career in information systems, first as a systems developer with Salt Lake City and then as the management information services director for the Utah Department of Public Safety. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Utah State University. Prior to attending USU Squire served four years in the Air Force assigned to the White House Communications Agency.

Michael Torrens, Director, Analysis Assessment and Accreditation, Utah State University

Michael Torrens is director of Analysis, Assessment & Accreditation (AAA) at Utah State University, a premier student-centered, land-grant and space-grant university. He leads institutional research, assessment, and accreditation efforts. The AAA office is a resource for data-driven decisions, serving USU’s students, faculty, staff, administration, and the wider community. Previously, Torrens served as director of Applied Research & Innovation at CFED in Washington, D.C., where he managed the Local Capital Market Investment Fund and led asset-building research, program development and policy work for six years. Prior to his work in Washington, he served as executive director of New Jersey Community Capital. His international work encompasses Zimbabwe, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and M.P.P. from Princeton University.

Presentation Handouts

Constructing a Passport
Handbook
Data Management

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016 at 12:00pm MT

Join us for an overview of the Interstate Passport, a program that facilitates block transfer of lower division general education based on learning outcomes. Find out who developed it and why, how it works, and how it benefits students and institutions. This webinar may be of particular interest to faculty, deans and provosts interested in issues of transfer and outcomes-based education.

Speaker

Robert Turner, Passport State Coordinator, WICHE

Robert “Bob” Turner retired in June 2011 after four years as Oregon University System assistant vice chancellor for academic standards and collaborations. He worked with Oregon’s public universities, statewide faculty senate, and K‐12 and community college leadership on student learning and student transitions among educational institutions. Turner received a B.S. in biology from Seattle University and a Ph.D. in embryology from the University of Oregon, and taught and conducted biology research for over 30 years. He is an emeritus professor of biology at Western Oregon University, where he was honors program director and interim dean of liberal arts and sciences.

Thursday, May 12th, 2016 at 12:00pm MT

The Interstate Passport Initiative is a grassroots effort, conceived by university and community college chief academic leaders in 2010, to develop a new friction-free framework for block transfer of lower-division general education based on transfer level learning outcomes and proficiency criteria. At these academic leaders’ request, WICHE manages this multi-state effort as it rolls out the framework in phases.

Speakers

Robert Turner, Passport State Coordinator, WICHE

Robert “Bob” Turner retired in June 2011 after four years as Oregon University System assistant vice chancellor for academic standards and collaborations. He worked with Oregon’s public universities, statewide faculty senate, and K‐12 and community college leadership on student learning and student transitions among educational institutions. Turner received a B.S. in biology from Seattle University and a Ph.D. in embryology from the University of Oregon, and taught and conducted biology research for over 30 years. He is an emeritus professor of biology at Western Oregon University, where he was honors program director and interim dean of liberal arts and sciences.

Thomas Krabacher, Professor of Geography, California State University, Sacramento

Thomas Krabacher has been a faculty member in the Department of Geography at the California State University, Sacramento for over 25 years. 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 BS and MA from Michigan State University and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Davis.