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Conference Speakers
Dr. Denise Swett
is the Vice President of Student Services at FoothillCollege. Denise
has worked at both 2 and 4-year colleges. As vice president she
provides leadership and guidance for the student services division.
She also oversees career and technical education grants, the
Workforce Innovation Partnership, the Family Engagement Institute and
college-wide professional development.
Ahrash N. Bissell, Ph.D.,
is a Special Projects Manager for the Monterey Institute for
Technology and Education (MITE), as well as a Consultant on
innovation in education and science for several projects and
organizations, including the Mozilla Foundation, The William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Alexandria Archive Institute. Dr.
Bissell also sits on the boards for Peer 2 Peer University and
Wikieducator. Dr. Bissell's current and prior work encompasses
educational research and technology, with special focus on science
and math (STEM) disciplines, open educational resources (OER), and
data sharing.
Dr. Geri
Anderson currently serves as the Vice President of
Academic and Student Affairs and Provost for the Colorado Community
College System. In the role of Chief Academic and Student Affairs
Officer, she provides leadership for all community college academic
and student affairs policy review and development, ensures the
development and enhancement of high quality career and technical and
transfer education programs through on-going program review,
assessment of student learning, high academic standards and the
expansion of scholarship/creative activity. In addition to providing
leadership at the postsecondary level.
Dr.
Christina Royal has been involved in
education for over 15 years, in both academic (community college and
private four-year institutions) and corporate environments. She
currently serves as the Associate Vice President of eLearning &
Innovation at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), and has
district-wide oversight over one of the largest distance-learning
units in the state of Ohio. Her extensive experience as an
administrator and faculty member allows her to bring significant
expertise and value to discussions, and a forward-thinking approach
to ideas associated with contemporary higher education teaching and
learning practices, approaches, issues, and solutions.
Michael
Shouldice has been with Athabasca University
for 6 years. Prior to AU he helped opened the Commerce Career
Development Centre at the University of Toronto and was an Enrolment
Counsellor for Sylvan Learning Centres.
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