Doctoral Evaluation Group
January 7, 2004
Overview of Our Task
Purpose:
To create a vision of NLU doctoral programs for the foreseeable future.
Goals:
Analyze and evaluate doctoral programs
Set vision and goals for next decade.
Determine the structures, policies, practices, & resources we need to achieve our vision/goals.
Timeline:
Month | Activities |
January | Introductions to each other and process |
February | Evaluate the “grammar”* of our programs |
March | Create vision of future |
April | Set goals for future |
May | Decide how we want to “live together” (what “grammar”* do we need?) |
June | Determine structures, policies, processes, & resources we need to achieve our vision/goals |
July-Aug. | Prepare materials re new structure, systems, policies, processes, etc.; revise doctoral handbook; prepare materials for communicating with community |
September | Communicate revisions with community |
Members of Doctoral Evaluation Group
(listed alphabetically by first name)
Allison Hilsabeck ahilsabeck@nl.edu
Chris DeNeveu cdeneveu@nl.edu
Chuck Sentell CSentell@nl.edu
Cleyardis Yilmaz ceealways1@sbcglobal.net
Elizabeth Hawthorne EHawthorne@nl.edu
Elizabeth Peterson EPeterson@nl.edu
Elke Kleisch elkekleisch@cs.com
Fletcher DuBois fdubois@nl.edu
Linda Tafel LTafel@nl.edu
Marie Nelson Mnelson@nl.edu
Mary B. Kelly MBKelly@nl.edu
Nina Youhanna NYouhanna@nl.edu
Norm Weston NWeston@nl.edu
Patrick Roberts PRoberts@nl.edu
Ruth Horton TUTERIA132@aol.com
Shani Beth-Halachmy SBeth@nl.edu
Sue Jungck SJungck@nl.edu
Susan Gabel SGabel@nl.edu
Susan McHahon SMcm241515@aol.com
Tim Bucy timbucy@earthlink.net
Tom Heaney THeaney@nl.edu
Valerie Owen VOwen@nl.edu
*See Tyack and Cuban’s Tinkering Toward Utopia
February 4, 2004
Our task for February is to consider responses to the following questions:
1. Who are we?
2. What values underlie our practices?
3. Who and what do we want to become?
We encourage all doctoral students, CAS/NCE faculty, and related administrators to provide the evaluation group with feedback about these three "critical engagement questions." Thanks to the ACE program in CAS for sharing their program questions with us and allowing us to use them in our evaluation process. You can find the names and email address of all group members on the NCE Doctoral Program website at
