Mark Fink (Online Education) recently completed work as an expert panel member for the Horizon Project's "Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition." The report is read by policymakers and higher education leaders in 160 countries and growing with more than 40 editions and 50 translations. "University administrators and educators across the…

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Valarie Burke (Vice Provost Academic Affairs), Stacy Shapin (Fine Arts), Kristie Berthelotte (Fine Arts), Heather Hatch (Academic Success Center), Chris Parker (Engineering), Sal Mora (Academic Success Center), David Belt (Sciences), and Michael Biesiada (Business) made presentations at the annual NACADA (National…

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Janet Hollinger (Academic Affairs), Eric Lee (Academic Affairs), and Cheyenne Rogers (Education) received four of the nine Region 9 Academic Advising Awards given at the annual NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Region 9 conference held at the University of California, Berkeley. Johnson received the…

Shawn Gerstenberger (Community Health Sciences) and Daniel Bubb (Academic Assessment) participated in the first Masters of Public Health Quality Assessment Summit hosted by UNLV's School of Community Health Sciences. Faculty, graduate students, alumni, community members, and employers gathered to attend the half-day event on March 7, engaging in…

Rainier Spencer (Academic Affairs) wrote an article, "'Only the News They Want to Print': Mainstream Media and Critical Mixed-Race Studies," which was published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. This is the first scholarly journal devoted to the topic of mixed-race identity, and it came about through the work of…

Anne Mendenhall (Online Education) was appointed as president-elect of the Design and Development Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). She will serve in that capacity for one year and then will be appointed president of the division. Previously, she served as vice president of communications. AECT is…

Chris Heavey (Academic Affairs), Carl Reiber (Academic Affairs), and Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment) presented a poster of UNLV's general education and assessment program at the Association for General and Liberal Studies annual conference in Indianapolis in September. The poster depicted the levels of UNLV's vertically integrated general education…

Michael Wilder (Online Education) has been selected to make presentations at three conferences. In October, he will present at the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association in Jackson Hole, Wyo. His presentation, "Evaluation of UNLV's Hybrid Learning Program," is part of a symposium on Learning about Program Evaluation by Doing…

Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment), Gregory Schraw (Education), David James (Academic Programs), Barbara Brents (Sociology), Kyle Kaalberg (Teaching and Learning), Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology), Penny Amy (Biology), and Ann Cammett (Law) recently published an article in Assessment Update, a publication that is widely read by assessment…

Kevin Kemner (Architecture), Jenifer Utz (Life Sciences), Louis Kavouras (Dance), Daniel Bubb (Academic Assessment), and Lindsay Couzens (Academic Assessment) recently made a presentation at the Association for the Assessment of Higher Learning Education's annual Assessment Conference in Lexington, Ky. The presentation demonstrated how a series of…