The interactive panel session on higher education assessment will feature Melanie
Booth, Marylhurst University; Tanya Ostrogorsky, Oregon Health Sciences University;
Vicki Wise and Rowanna Carpenter, Portland State University; and Linda Reisser, Portland
Community College. The panel will include discussion about the importance of considering
assessment purpose; capacity building for assessment; institutional culture as context
for assessment; and the pressures for credible evidence to demonstrate learning and
program success.
Founded in 1997, the Oregon Program Evaluators Network is an organization for professionals
who are involved with or interested in program evaluation. OPEN allows for the exchange
of ideas and information to promote and encourage high-quality evaluation practices.
The members of OPEN represent a wide variety of government agencies, non-profits,
universities and private consulting firms.
Kim Firth Leonard, assessment research coordinator at Marylhurst University, is currently
serving as OPEN's president.
Dr. Susan Carter, interim chair of the MA in Interdisciplinary Studies Department, was named vice president of the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature in May 2013.
Dr. Libby Farr
Faculty Receive Innovation Grants
Marylhurst faculty received "excellence and innovation" grants supporting work in business, interior design, art, sustainability and music therapy.