Assessment of Student Learning

2005 focused visit team biographies

Dr. Thomas Conry (team chair)

  • Professor, Department of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); also an affiliate of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Joined UIUC faculty in 1971, coming from General Motors Corp.
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin
  • B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University

He is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and Wisconsin and a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi and ASME. Conry was chairman of the ASME Design Engineering Division in 1979-80. He was a member of the ASME Board on Communications and chair of the Publications Committee and was Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibrations, Acoustics, Stress and Reliability in Design 1984-1989.

Dr. Barbara Steidle

  • Project Coordinator/Manager of Carnegie Corporation's "Teachers for a New Era (TNS) Initiative" at MSU working with the colleges of Education, Arts and Letters, Natural Science and Social Science (through 2007)
  • Assistant Provost Emeritus and Consultant to the Provost, 2003-2006
  • Member, Steering Committee for PROM/SE Math-Science partnership grant from NSF
  • Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Education, Assessment and Academic Services, Michigan State University (MSU); 1992-2002.
  • Assistant Provost for Academic Services, 1989--1992, MSU
  • Dean of MSU's James Madison College, 1980--1989, MSU
  • Department of History, Central Michigan University and Michigan State University
  • Ph.D. and M.A., History, Rutgers University
  • B.S., Pennsylvania State University

She served as chairperson of the assessment/accreditation network of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, as a consultant-evaluator for the North Central Association Accreditation Review Council and served as an institutional representative to the College Board and American Association of Colleges and Universities. In 2003, she was received the MI-ACE Network award for Distinguished Woman in Higher Education Leadership.

Past experience as a NCA Evaluator: Northwestern University, 2004 (Assessment and Undergraduate Education); Cleveland State University. NCA 2000 Site Visit Roster of NCA Evaluation Team ; NCA EVALUATION TEAM - CHAPTER ASSIGNMENTS ( team chair) ; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000, (chair of the NCA assessment committee),

Dr. Rosa Cintron

  • Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in Adult and Higher Education, College of Education, University of Oklahoma (OU)
  • Associate Director, Center for Student Affairs Research, University of Oklahoma
  • Interim Dean, University College, 2002-2003
  • Ph.D. Florida State University, 1992
  • M.A. University of Puerto Rico, 1982
  • B.A. University of Puerto Rico, 1975
  • Expertise and Interest: Student Personnel Services, History of Higher Education, and Community College, Multiculturalism in Higher Education

Other information:

Co-editor, Building a Working Policy for Distance Education: New Directions for Community Colleges (J-B CC Single Issue Community Colleges) Amazon.com Books New Directions for Community Colleges, Building a Working Policy for Distance Education No. 99 Fall 1997