Featured Speakers:

8:30– 10:00 a.m. Plenary Session - Van Meter

Speaker:  Jillian Kinzie, NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practice

 

Jillian Kinzie - Associate Director, NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practice, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

Jillian Kinzie is Project Manager of the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) initiative. Her PhD is from Indiana University, in higher education with a minor in women's studies. Dr. Kinzie held a faculty position at IU, where she coordinated the master’s program in higher education and student affairs.

Dr. Kinzie has extensive experience as a research associate and as an administrator, and in 2001 was awarded a Student Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty at Indiana University. She has conducted research on women in undergraduate science and retention of underrepresented students. Dr. Kinzie has co-authored several books, including Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

      

2:15 – 3:30 p.m. Plenary Session - Van Meter

Speaker:  Dana Canedy, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter with The New York Times

Dana Canedy –Assistant Editor, The New York Times National Desk

Dana Canedy has been assistant editor for the National Desk of The New York Times since July 2003, and previously served as The Times’s Miami bureau chief. She began her Times career as the Consumer Products reporter in September 1996. She previously worked with the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

In 2000, Ms. Canedy’s article “Between the Lines, a Measure of Hurt,” appeared in The Times’s Pulitzer award-winning series, “How Race Is Lived in America.” She also was part of the project’s editing team.

Originally from Radcliff, Kentucky, Ms. Canedy is a graduate of the University of Kentucky . Ms. Canedy has wanted to be a journalist since she was twelve years old.

Join us for an exciting opportunity to participate in our inaugural Engaging the Spirit: Enhancing Student Learning conference.

Please register for this first-ever event at:  http://www.wku.edu/teaching/workshopregistration/regform.php

 

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