National Advisory Board
Member Biographies
| Maryam Alavi is a Professor and holds the John M. and Lucy Cook Chair of Information Strategy in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University . Her experience in higher education includes research and teaching at the MBA, doctoral, and executive development levels. Her industry experience includes planning, design, and evaluation of information systems for various application areas in private and public organizations, and managing a private-firm research department with local and overseas staff members. Dr. Alavi's research focuses on technology-mediated learning process, decision and group support systems, and the application of information technology in business. Dr. Alavi is an Associate Editor of Information Systems Research and serves on the Editorial Boards of, Journal of Management Information Systems , and Journal of Strategic Information Systems . She has served as the Vice President of Education for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and was elected as an AIS Fellow in 2000. She has served as a consultant to a variety of organizations including the World Bank, KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP, Lotus/IBM, Lucent Technologies, Marriott Corporation, the General Accounting Office, the American College of Physicians, and the Aspen Institute. To visit Dr. Alavi's website, please click here. |
| Victor M. H. Borden is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Management and Institutional Research (IMIR) at Indiana-University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is also an associate professor for IUPUI's Psychology Department (Purdue School of Science) and has adjunct appointments in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (Indiana University School of Education), and University College (IUPUI). Dr. Borden's primary research actitivies are in the areas of student progress and performance, and institutional and program performance indicators. Dr. Borden has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, including the annual analysis of degrees conferred to students of color for Black Issues in Higher Education, and of Associate degree conferrals for Community College Week. Recent publications include an ACE/AIR monograph, Measuring quality: Choosing among surveys and other college and university quality assessments. Dr. Borden is a very active contributor to several professional organizations and is past president of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR). His professional activities include consulting and teaching workshops on program assessment, statistics, survey research, and the use of technology for assessment, decision support, and institutional analysis. To visit the IMIR website, please click here. |
| Sally M. Johnstone is the founding Director of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET). The WCET has more than 200 member organizations in 37 states and six countries that work together to increase the effective planning for and use of electronically mediated educational activities. The WCET currently has several projects dealing with various aspects of electronically mediated learning including: quality assurance for programs, student support, evaluations, and financial management. Dr. Johnstone's special areas of expertise include: the effects of the integration of technology on higher education institutions and system organizations, quality assurance issues, and project development and evaluation. She has directed evaluations of state, regional and national projects. She writes a monthly column for Syllabus magazine on distance learning, serves as a Consulting Editor for Change magazine, and has authored more than 20 articles and five books/major reports on distance and distributed learning. She also leads workshops and gives about a dozen invited addresses each year to higher education organizations. Dr. Johnstone serves on the Board of the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the U. S. Open University's Board of Directors, and the Advisory Panel for the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education. Her most recent book, published by Prentice Hall, is The Distance Learner's Guide. To visit the WCET website, please click here. |
| George D. Kuh is the Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education at Indiana University and is the Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research, which conducts the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). His research focuses on the assessment student and institutional performance to enhance student success and to improve the quality of the undergraduate experience. He has published more than 150 research articles and 17 books and monographs. He has consulted with more than 150 institutions and agencies in the United States and abroad, focusing primarily on measuring and improving postsecondary education. Two current NSSE Institute projects are Documenting Effective Educational Practices and Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority Students, both in collaboration with the American Association for Higher Education. NSSE was created with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and is cosponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning. His projects are currently supported by grants from Lumina Foundation for Education, the Wabash College Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, and National Center for Education Statistics. The visit the NSSE website, please click here. |