Appendix D
Planning Committee and Staff Biographies

PAUL COURANT (Chair) is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, Professor of Information, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. From 2007 to 2013 he was University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan. From 2002 to 2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief budget officer and chief academic officer of the university. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Courant has authored 6 books and more than 70 papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, he has been studying the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the changes in the system of scholarly communication that derive from new information technologies. Dr. Courant holds a BA in history from Swarthmore College (1968), an MA in economics from Princeton University (1973), and a PhD in economics from Princeton University (1974).

ANGELA BYARS-WINSTON is an Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin (UW), Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. Her research interests include the examination of cultural influences on career development, especially for racial and ethnic minorities and women in the sciences, engineering, and medicine. Specifically, she has focused on testing the validity of theoretical models to explain and predict academic and career outcomes using social cognitive theoretical approaches. In 2010, Dr. Byars-Winston was awarded a multi-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health as Principal Investigator to measure and test critical factors in research

training interventions for mentors of ethnically diverse mentees in biological science. She was recently selected as a Champion of Change by the White House through President Obama’s Winning the Future initiative for her research efforts to diversify science fields. Dr. Byars-Winston completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the University of Maryland, College Park and received her PhD in counseling psychology from Arizona State University. She was a KL2 scholar at ICTR in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and is a Researcher in the UW Center for Women’s Health Research.

ELLEN HAZELKORN is Director of Research and Enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. She also leads the Higher Education Policy Research Unit. She works closely with the International Association of Universities (IAU) and is a consultant to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She is a member of the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) and incoming President of EAIR (the European Higher Education Society). Prof. Hazelkorn has been/is a member various governmental and international review teams. In addition, she has worked/is working with universities and university associations around the world, including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jamaica, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, and Sweden, and with private organizations on issues of higher education assessment and evaluation. Prof. Hazelkorn is Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool and a member of the International Research Committee of the American Education Research Association (2012-2015). She is/has been a member of various editorial boards: Higher Education Policy, International Journal for Researcher Development, and Higher Education Management and Policy. She was Chairperson of the Dublin Regional Higher Education Alliance (2011-2012) and Visiting Fellow at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University), OECD, Paris, and Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. She was rapporteur and lead author for the report of the European Union (EU) Expert Group, Assessing Europe’s University-based Research (2010), and a member of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Foresight Working Group (Ireland). Prof. Hazelkorn has more than 18 years of senior management experience in higher education, previously holding the position of Vice President and founding Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology (1995-2008). She was Company Secretary, Contemporary Music Centre (2001-2007); Board Member on Higher Education Equality Unit (1996-2002) and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (2000-2002); and Deputy Chairperson, Centre for International Technology and Education—a consortium of European academic, research, and industrial institutions developing EU research programs in intelligent digital content (1996-2000). She was awarded a BA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Kent, UK, respectively. She is leading a study of “The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Higher Education: Higher Education Leadership and Management Challenges” with the

IAU and co-leader of an European Science Foundation project measuring the societal impacts of universities' research into arts and the humanities (HERAVALUE), the result of which will be published by Palgrave in 2014.

PAUL LeBLANC is President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Under the 10 years of his direction, SNHU has more than tripled in size and is the largest provider of online higher education in New England, one of the five largest in the country, and the first to have a full competency-based degree program (untethered to the credit hour or classes) approved by a regional accreditor and the U.S. Department of Education. In 2012 the university was #12 on Fast Company magazine’s “World’s Fifty Most Innovative Companies” list and was the only university included. Dr. LeBlanc won a New England Higher Education Excellence Award in 2012 and was named one of “New Hampshire’s Most Influential People” by New Hampshire Business Review. In 2012 Forbes magazine listed him as one of its 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries,” and he was featured on Bloomberg TV’s “Innovators” series. He speaks frequently to industry, Institutions of higher education, national policymakers, and other higher education stakeholders and often appears in the media. Dr. LeBlanc immigrated to the United States as a child, was the first person in his extended family to attend college, and is a graduate of Framingham State University (BA), Boston College (MA), and the University of Massachusetts (PhD). He directed a technology start-up for Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company (1993-1996), was President of Marlboro College in Vermont (1996-2003), and became President of SNHU in 2003.

ALEXANDER C. McCORMICK succeeded George D. Kuh as the Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in January 2008. He also holds a faculty appointment in the Indiana University School of Education’s Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department, where he teaches in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. Through his work with NSSE, Dr. McCormick aims to enrich the national discourse about quality and accountability in higher education, while also providing institutions with tools to diagnose and improve undergraduate teaching and learning. His research interests center around assessment and accountability in higher education, as well as organizational change and improvement in higher education. Prior to joining Indiana University, Dr. McCormick served as Senior Scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he directed a major overhaul of the Foundation’s widely-used Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and also served as director of survey research. McCormick began his career in higher education as an admissions officer at Dartmouth College, where he subsequently served as Assistant Dean of the College. Dr. McCormick holds a PhD (education and sociology), a master’s degree (educational administration and policy analysis) from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree (French) from Dartmouth College.

MARCO MOLINARO has a dual BS in biophysics and chemistry from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a PhD in biophysical chemistry from the University of California (UC), Berkeley. Since the early 1990s, he has been strongly involved with education at all levels and technology. From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Molinaro was involved in various national efforts (ModularChem Consortium and ChemConnections) to reform the undergraduate curriculum in chemistry utilizing problem-based approaches and technology. During that period, he spent 1 year as a Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to research faculty use of technology in instruction. From 1998 to 2003, he was the Founder and Director of the ScienceVIEW educational multimedia design, research, and development group at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at UC Berkeley, specializing in creating multimedia materials aimed at teaching and learning science in formal and informal settings. Between his earlier chemistry work and LHS, he has developed more than 15 major CD-ROM and Internet-based products for teachers, students, and families. During his tenure as ScienceVIEW Director, he also led various research efforts related to educational technology effectiveness including learning-optimized use of molecular simulations in the classroom, understanding the potential of computer-based data collection for formative assessment in formal and informal learning environments, and developing usability guidelines for creating age-appropriate interactive activities on the Internet. From 2002 to 2005 he led the Windows on Research: Focus on Nanotechnology public exhibit project (Nanozone.org) aimed at communicating nanoscience to visitors ages 8-14 years. He is currently focusing his attention to communicating the latest research results, and the science behind them, to students of all ages in both formal and informal settings with an emphasis on actively engaging participants in “doing” science. Now at UC–Davis, he is the Chief Education Officer for the Center for Biophotonics, where he coordinates all of the Center’s educational activities, including those aimed at K-12, higher education, and the public. One of latest projects is titled Biophotonicsworld.org—a biophotonics knowledge base for education, research, and industry. Dr. Molinaro is a member of the graduate group in the School of Education at UC–Davis. His current and ongoing research interests involve social interactions around technology use in informal and formal science settings, methods for facilitating public understanding of research, integration of cutting-edge scientific research and researchers with the formal and informal educational enterprises, and approaches to attracting, engaging, and retaining underrepresented students in science.

INDIRA NAIR recently retired from Carnegie Mellon University after 32 years. During her last 12 years there, she was the Vice Provost for Education and Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Her research covered risk assessment, policy and risk communication, green design, bioelectromagnetics, education in general, engineering and innovation education, education assessment, and pedagogies for the modern-day literacies such as scientific, environmental, and global literacy. She designed and taught

several interdisciplinary courses including ethics of science and technology; environmental science; technology and decision-making; and radiation, health, and policy. Dr. Nair currently chairs the national Global Learning Leadership Council of the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). She advises several universities and colleges on incorporating global and environmental literacy and ethics throughout the curriculum, on faculty development and on interdisciplinary education. She has received several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and served on numerous national committees. She founded the Carnegie Mellon Chapter of Student Pugwash to encourage students to think about the social responsibility of science and technology. Her current quests and involvements include developing a new scheme for general education including the new literacies; investigating pedagogies for educating for innovation; increasing the inclusion of underrepresented minorities across all segments of education; and improving K-12 STEM education and bioelectromagnetics. She holds a PhD in physics from Northwestern University and a Pennsylvania teachers certificate for high school science teaching.

ROY SWIFT is currently the Executive Director of Workcred. Prior to joining Workcred, he served as the Chief Workforce Development Officer and Senior Director of Personnel Credentialing Accreditation Programs at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Prior to ANSI, he was a consultant to educational, certification, licensure, and health care organizations. From 1993 to 1998, he was Executive Director of the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). This appointment followed a 28-year career in the U.S. Army Medical Department. In his last position, he was Chief of the Army Medical Specialist Corps in the Army Surgeon General’s Office with policy responsibility for Army occupational therapists, physical therapists, dietitians, and physician assistants throughout the world. He has served on many national committees, nonprofit boards of directors, and federal and state government advisory committees. He has served as Chair of the Assembly of Review Committee Chairs of the former Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation of the American Medical Association; Chair of the American Occupational Therapy Association Accreditation Committee (Academic Accreditation); and member of the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee for Certification. Dr. Swift recently served on an Institute of Medicine panel dealing with Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services under TRICARE, and a planning committee for the future of Allied Health Practice. In addition, Dr. Swift recently chaired an international working group within the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) to recognize personnel certifications among member countries through the development of multilateral recognition arrangements. He is also active on working groups related to personnel credentialing in the International Organizational for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Geneva on credentialing. Dr. Swift holds a BS in occupational

therapy from the University of Kansas, an MS Ed from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in continuing and vocational education with an emphasis in continuing competency in the professions from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also successfully completed the University of Chicago’s 3-week management development course. Formed in 2014, Workcred connects credentials, competencies, careers, and customers. Its mission is to serve industry needs and the public by creating new knowledge about industry credentials and enhancing the quality, transparency, market value, and portability of competency-based and industry-endorsed credentials to increase the quality, productivity, and performance of workers. An ANSI affiliate, Workcred is currently undergoing incorporation as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Workcred’s independence as a legal entity will maintain separation from and respect the impartiality of ANSI’s accreditation services.

STAFF

THOMAS RUDIN is Director of the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—a position he assumed in August 2014. Prior to joining the Academies, Mr. Rudin served as Senior Vice President for Career Readiness and Senior Vice President for Advocacy, Government Relations and Development at the College Board from 2006 to 2014. He was also Vice President for Government Relations from 2004 to 2006 and Executive Director of Grants Planning and Management from 1996 to 2004 at the College Board. Before joining the College Board, Mr. Rudin was a policy analyst at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1991, Mr. Rudin taught courses in U.S. public policy, human rights, and organizational management as a visiting instructor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. In the early 1980s, he directed the work of the Governor’s Task Force on Science and Technology for North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., where he was involved in several new state initiatives, such as the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. He received a BA from Purdue University, and he holds master’s degrees in public administration and in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

AQILA COULTHURST is an Associate Program Officer with the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where she works on a broad range of policy issues ranging from workforce development and immigration to intellectual property and innovation. She joined STEP in the fall of 2011 after serving as marketing specialist at the National Academies Press (NAP) for 2 years. Prior to her work at the Academies, Ms. Coulthurst developed and directed a leadership development and civic engagement program for at-risk youth in the DC area. She has also worked in various capacities at Smithsonian Enterprises, the National Community Action Foundation, and SRI International.

Ms. Coulthurst earned a BA in economics, a BA in Spanish, and a certificate in markets and management from Duke University. She received an MS in foreign service with a concentration in international development from Georgetown University.

MARIA LUND DAHLBERG is an Associate Program Officer with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She works with a number of groups across the institution, including the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, the central Office of Communications, and the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, specializing in report review, production, and dissemination. She has contributed to more than 18 reports and 10 different boards since joining the Academies in January 2012. She came to the Academies by way of a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, which she received after completing all requirements short of finalizing the dissertation for her doctorate in physics at the Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Dahlberg holds a BA in physics from Vassar College and an MS in physics from the Pennsylvania State University.

IRENE NGUN is a Research Associate with the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Before joining the National Academies, Ms. Ngun was a congressional intern with the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s Democratic Office and also served the office of her district congresswoman, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30). Ms. Ngun holds an MA in international relations from Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies and a BA in biochemistry and economics from Goshen College.

ADRIANA NAVIA COUREMBIS joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in January 2012 as a Financial Associate for the Policy and Global Affairs Division. As a Financial Associate, she collaborates with the financial management for the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine, the Science & Technology for Sustainability Program, the Committee on Human Rights, and the Board on Research Data and Information. Prior to the Academies, Mrs. Courembis worked with the American Bar Association—Rule of Law Initiative as a Program Associate and Bay Management, LLC as an Accounts Payable Associate. Mrs. Courembis holds a BA in International Economics from American University.

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