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David Arendale, Ph.D., was the National Project Director for Supplemental Instruction and the Associate Director for the Center for Academic Development at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Arendale served as President of the National Association for Developmental Education from 1996 to 1997. Currently, David is an Associate Professor in Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota’s General College.

For the past decade Arendale has been extensively involved with programs related to student success. He has made over 125 presentations and conducted workshops at international, national and regional professional conferences. Arendale has authored or co-authored more than 55 articles, monographs, and videotapes.

Professional involvement activities with the National Association for Developmental Education include: past national president, past president of one of the regional chapters, co-chair for the 1994 national conference, and member of several committees. A student retention program co-developed by Arendale at Highland Community College (KS) won one of the Noel/Levitz National Awards for Exemplary Student Retention in 1989.

Elaine is currently the Director of the Student Support Services Learning Center Project at Skyline College, San Bruno, CA. She has twenty years experience in learning assistance including serving as the Associate Director of the Learning Assistance Program and Director of the Minority Engineering Program at CSU Long Beach; and Director, Learning Skills Center, Hartnell Community College, Salinas, CA.

Elaine is a past president of the Association of California College Tutorial and Learning Assistance. She is also the past director of four of the five annual Institutes for Learning Assistance Professionals when they were held at CSU Long Beach.

David Caverly is currently a professor of reading at Texas State University – San Marcos. He served as the co-editor for TechTalk in the Journal of Developmental Education.

He has been a mentor and presenter at several of the Winter Institutes in Tucson. He is well versed in technology as it applies to developmental education for postsecondary learners.

Dave also coordinated the annual national Technology Institute for Developmental Educators (TIDE) each year.

Frank was the director of the CSU Long Beach Summer Institutes (1985-1989), the co-director/coordinator of the Arizona Winter Institutes (1991-2003) and had been actively involved with learning assistance for the past 35 years. He was the founder and past coordinator (1972-1990) of the award-winning Learning Assistance Support System at CSU Long Beach. He was the author of the first computer-based diagnostic and prescriptive study skills survey, six study skills textbooks, and many articles on learning assistance, study skills, and technology as it impacts on teaching and student learning. In recent years, Frank has been involved in on-line course development and teaching as well as presenting workshops on learning support for online student/learners.

Frank was a past president of the College Reading and Learning Association. His editorial contributions included guest editor and contributor to the Jossey-Bass New Directions for Learning Assistanceseries (1981), founding columnist (1981-87) of the Journal of Developmental Education “Techtalk” Series, co-editor of Starting up a Learning Assistance Center: Conversations With CRLA Members Who Have Been There and Done That (2000), co-author of 100 Things Every Online Student Ought To Know. (2003), and of Online Student Skills and Strategies Handbook (2006). In addition, Frank was a Founding Fellow (2000) of ACDEA.

Jim Ellsworth serves with the U.S. Army at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where he is responsible for research and development in the area of instructional evaluation. He holds a BS in Marketing and Computer-Based Management Systems (minor in Technical Communications) from Clarkson University, an MBA in Management Information Systems from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation from Syracuse University. His personal research focuses on the diffusion of instructional innovations and the management of educational change. He currently serves as Communications Officer Elect for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology’s Division for Systemic Change. Other professional affiliations include the American Educational Research Association and the International Society for Performance Improvement.

Gwyn currently teaches reading, composition, critical thinking, and literature as a professor in the English Department at San Diego City College. She has had twenty years of learning center experience at both the two and four year college and university level. She designed and implemented learning assistance centers at CSU-Northridge and San Diego City College.

She also directed a cooperative developmental writing program coordinated between San Diego State University and San Diego City College.Gwyn is past president of the College Reading and Learning Association. She has served as editor of the Journal of College Reading and Learning, on the editorial board of the Journal of Reading, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Development Education.

Dr. Loyd Ray Ganey, Jr. is currently Full Professor and Faculty Chair for Western International University. Dr. Ganey is also an Adjunct Faculty and Online Educator/Developer/Consultant for other academic institutions. He instructs courses in Behavioral Sciences, Human Services, Philosophy, History, and Religion. Current interests include delving into Distance Learning, Online Course Development, and the intriguing & diverse history of Southeast Arizona.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Dr. Ganey completed his Ph.D. in Human Services and a Professional Certificate for Instructional Design in Online Learning with Capella University (June 2000). In 1988 he received a Masters of Science in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University and six quarters of Clinical Pastoral Education, and obtained a Masters of Divinity with a Minor in History (1980) from Abilene Christian University. He finished his undergraduate work at the University of West Florida and received a BA in Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies and a BA in Religious Studies with a Minor in History (1977).

David is currently a counsleor at Glendale Community College, Maricopa Colleges, AZ. He was the Director of the Learning Support Center at Paradise Valley Community College and had worked directly in learning assistance for more than 12 years. He has been both a presenter and mentor at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Winter Institutes. David was a contributing author to Starting A Learning Assistance Center, a College Reading and Learning Association monograph. David authored two
sections: management tools and program evaluation.

David has experience in designing and revising tutor training programs, assessing and understanding learning styles (4MAT), assessing and implementing study skills, and creating a team-oriented approach in management of a center (using Covey
materials), and developing online tutoring. David has also been involved in designing, implementing, and creating training materials for a comprehensive computerized tutor management system (TMS) which allowed scheduling of tutors based on time slots, student schedules, course or subjects for individuals or groups. TMS also kept records and generated reports of the recorded appointments.

Bob was a professor of education at Grambling State University. He had been one of the leading researchers in developmental education for the past twenty five years. As a professor of physics, chemistry, and electronics at Roger Williams Universty, he designed and developed multimedia approaches for training engineers in the use of advanced instrumentation. In 1970, he was one of the first professors in the US to incorporate microcomputers in the classroom at the postsecondary level.

Bob had published over 200 articles and monographs in the field of developemntal education and education research and measurement as well as five related books: Objective Mental Measurement, Foundations of Developmental Education, Handbook of Developmental Education, Developmental Assessment, and Cognitive Styles.

Brad Hughes is the Director of the Writing Center and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He believes strongly that students at all levels can benefit from what learning assistance professionals know and teach. He has a strong commitment to professional development for those in the learning assistance field. To these ends, he has published chapters, articles and reviews about writing instruction and writing center administration. He was named to the board of the Writing Center Journal.

With the support of several grants, Brad has pioneered the use of electronic discussions in college courses and now has a web address for his Writing Center.

Gene was the Director of Andragogy Associates, specialists in College/Adult Leaning Systems. He was the author of the widely used assessment tool, Study Behavior Inventory. His extensive experience in learning assistance included serving as Professor of English/Reading and Associate Dean of Instruction at El Camino College in California. e was acting Director at the National Center for Developmental Education, Appalachian State University (NC); and Director of the Learning Assistance Center, Scottsdale Community College (AZ).

Gene was a past president of the College Reading and Learning Association and was a founding CLADEA Fellow. He had served as the editor of the Review of Research in Developmental Education, the Journal of College Reading and Learning, and as the Advisory Editor of the Journal of Reading.

Associate Professor Emeritus,
Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon

Lucy has a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Kansas and a Master’s in Reading from the University of Oregon. She has been involved with integrating technology into the classroom for the last 20 years.

She joined David Caverly in 1998 as co-author of the TechTalk column in the Journal of Developmental Education. Currently, she teaches online developmental classes and manages Lucy Online and “howtostudy.org.”

William Mathis was the Learning Assistance Center Director at South Mountain Community College in Maricopa CC District. He has an A.A.S. from Mesa Community College; a B.S. from Arizona State University; and a M.Ed. from Northern Arizona University. He holds an Arizona Community College Teaching Certificate in Communication, Psychology, Counseling, Audio-Visual and Computers.

Bill has attended several of the Winter Institutes in Tucson was our mini-Computer Lab Coordinator for the Winter Institute in Scottsdale-1998.

Georgine is the Director of the University of Pittsburgh Learning Skills Center. She was also Co-Chair of the NADE Standards and Evaluation Committee.

Georgine has been involved with the creation and the revision of the CAS Standards for Learning Assistance Programs, 1986 and 1997 editions.

Georgine attended the 1998 Winter Institute as a presenter and as a participant.

Martha founded learning centers at American University five decades ago, at the University of Maryland, 30 years ago, and the University of California-Berkeley in 1973. The Annual Institute for Learning Assistance Professionals (now the Winter Institute) began under her direction in 1977 and the first six institutes were held summers at UC Berkeley.

She is the author of four books: Skimming and Scanning Improvement (1968), Improving Student Learning Skills(1978), and Evaluating Academic Skills Program: A Source Book (1991, 1996) and Improving Student Learning Sklls: Programs and Practices for Working with the Underprepared College Student. A new, revised edition of Improving Student Learning Skills was published in 1997. She also edited When Tutor Meets Student (1991, 1994), and From Access to Success: Readings in Learning Assistance and Developmental Education (1994).

Retired from Berkeley in 1980, Martha continued writing, consulting, mentoring, and revising the CAS standards for learning assistance programs.

Wilbert J. McKeachie is Professor of Psychology and former Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, where he has spent his entire professional career since taking his doctorate in 1949. His primary activities have been college teaching, research on college teaching, and training college teachers. He is Past President of the American Psychological Association, the American Association of Higher Education, the American Psychological Foundation, and the Center for Social Gerontology.

McKeachie is also Past Chairman of the Committee on Teaching, Research, and Publication of the American Association of University Professors, of the Division of Educational, Instructional, and School Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and of Division J (Psychology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a member of the National Institute of Mental Health Council, the Veteran’s Administration Special Medical Advisory Group, and various other government advisory committees on mental health, behavioral and biological research, and graduate training. He has received honorary degrees from seven colleges and universities.

McKeachie has wriften a number of books and research articles, the best known of which is Teaching Tips, Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers– 10th ed. In Press, D.C. Heath/Houghton Mifflin

Sylvia was the Coordinator of the Winter Institute, working closely with Frank Christ. She was the Director of the University Learning Center at the University of Arizona (Tucson). Her long-term professional interests include student persistence
and retention, particularly students in their first year of college study. She has worked extensively with minority student programs and is dedicated to their success in the university environment.

Sylvia earned her masters degree in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Arizona, baccalaureate from Immaculate Heart College, and associates degree from Bakersfield College.

Gen has served as the director of the Learning Assistance Center at Cal State University, Long Beach since Spring 1988. In that capacity, she has overseen Learning Skills, Tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, and ESL Conversation Lab programs serving over 10,000 students/semester. She is also a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at CSULB, with specialization in languages and literature, and has been actively involved in the training and assessment of candidates for bilingual teacher certification.

In the area of Learning Assistance, Gen’s research includes presentations and publications on minority student retention and on the long and short-term impact of Supplemental Instruction as implemented at CSULB. She has been a faculty member in the Assessment Training Seminars offered by NCEOA since 1993, participated as an external evaluator of the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP), teaches in the Kellogg Institute, and serves on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Developmental Education and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Developmental Education.

Rick was the Director of PVCC’s Learning Support Center and Microcomputer Commons. If you have met him, you may remember him as his trademark is the Hawaiian shirts he wore. Rick completed his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University in August of 1994. His dissertation is available online “The Effects of Training and Experience on Adult Peer Tutors in Community Colleges.”

He has been involved in learning assistance for more than twenty-seven years and was the founding director of the Learning Assistance Center (1987-2010) at Paradise Valley Community College, Maricopa Colleges, Phoenix, AZ.Areas of professional interest include tutor training, staff development and training, learning styles, metacognition, web page development, use, and maintenance, and applications and implications of technology in teaching, instructional support, and office support. Rick was co-founder of LSCHE and has been its webmaster since 1996. Rick has served the College Reading & Learning Association (CRLA) as President, Technology Coordinator, Co-editor of its monograph, Starting a Learning Assistance Center, and former Coordinator for ITTPC
(International Tutor Training Program Certification), with more than 1100 programs certified in the US, Canada, and five other countries.

Rodger Slater
Presenter on WI ’98 Panel on Student Assessment

• Founding member Scottsdale Comm. Coll.
• Currently Chair of the English Department at SCC
• 1982-87 Chair of Maricopa Community College District (MCCD) Developmental Education Task Force. The Task Force developed a long range master plan which included the development of Learning Assistance Centers at each of the colleges.
• 1985-87 Co-Chair of MCCD Commission on Assessment and Initial Course Placement
• Consultant to Educational Testing Service on development of computer adaptive testing in reading
• Presently Co-Chair of MCCD Commission on Assessment

Karen G. Smith was the University Director of the Learning Resource Centers of Rutgers University. She had the distinction of designing, developing and directing learning assistance centers in three unique and different universities: Rutgers University, Tulane University, and New Mexico State University. Karen was a 25+-year member of CRLA, was a past president (1983-84), NM state director (1975-77), workshop presenter at many conferences, and was the archivist (1986-2001) and a member of the JCRL Editorial Board (1997-2001).

One of her proudest achievements was recognition by her peers in CRLA with the Long and Outstanding Service Award. In addition to her commitment to her membership in CRLA, Karen was a long-standing member of IRA and served as the New Mexico State President in 1977. She consulted widely with other colleges and universities for over 20 years, in learning assistance center design and development, reading education in colleges and universities, and management and supervision in learning centers.

The Winter Institute, CRLA, friends and colleagues will miss her expertness, her warm smile and her ever-caring approach and attitude to her many challenges.

Guillermo has been with the University of Arizona’s University Learning Center in Tucson since 1988. In 2003, he became the Director of the University Learning Center.

Originally from Mexico, Guillermo earned BS, MS and PhD degrees in Mathematics. His professional interests include data management and systems modelling. He has also taught mathematics at college level for a good number of years.

Guillermo developed and managed LRNASST (1994-2003) and received the CRLA recognition of Services Award for his work on LRNASST. He worked with the Winter Institute during that same time supporting technology and WI participant needs.

Socorro Vasquez directed the New Start Summer Program for 14 years.