HLC Workshops
Accelerating Efforts to Improve
HLC’s workshops offer intensive, hands-on learning opportunities for individual professionals and teams of colleagues. Under the guidance of expert practitioners, participants learn tested strategies and leave with plans for action that can be implemented at their institutions right away.
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Complete the HLC Programs Interest Form to receive more information about workshops. You’ll be notified by email when early registration opens for the workshops you select, giving you a chance to register before the rest of HLC’s membership.
Workshop Offerings
Strategy Workshops
March 5–8, 2019 | Albuquerque
Effective Administrators
March 5–6
Workshop leaders: Kathy Kiser-Miller and Rob Spohr
Individuals with new or expanded responsibilities for budgeting, planning, supervision and change management learn strategies to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Attendees receive guidance from experienced administrators on cultivating a collaborative, solutions-oriented culture while establishing a support network of peers at other institutions.
Advancing Strategy
March 6–8
Workshop leaders: Michael Boyd and William Tammone
This team workshop brings together cross-functional groups of 4–8 administrators to learn processes and tools for effective strategic planning in higher education. Teams will leave with a project charter to develop a strategic plan that will improve their institution’s performance.
Assessment Workshops
Emerging Leaders in Assessment
Next offering: February 25–26 | Chicago
Upcoming: May 14–15, 2019 | St. Charles, IL
Workshop leader: Gloria Rogers
Aligning learning expectations with the institutional context and developing a common language for understanding learning outcomes are fundamental to good assessment work. Individuals with new responsibilities for assessment and those seeking to refresh their assessment skills and knowledge learn about terminology and processes that are fundamental to assessing student learning in this basic skills workshop.
Learn more about February workshop
Assessing General Education
Next offering: February 27–28 | Chicago
Workshop leaders: Susan Hatfield and Gloria Rogers
Teams of 3–6 faculty and staff members learn best practices for assessment of student learning in general education programs and work with teammates to critically review the structure, philosophy and perceptions of their institutions’ existing practices.
Strategic Assessment
Next offering: May 16–17, 2019 | St. Charles, IL | Registration to open winter 2019
Workshop leader: Susan Hatfield
A focus on the process of assessment has taken many programs and institutions down a path of data collection only to find that it leads to frustration, distrust and wasted resources. At this workshop, teams of 4–8 institutional representatives collaborate with experienced facilitators to develop assessment plans that both aim to cultivate an institutional culture committed to continuous improvement and address the need to produce useful evidence of student learning.
Supporting Student Success Workshop (SOLD OUT)
April 6, 2019 | At the HLC annual conference in Chicago
Workshop leaders: Janice Denton and Susan Hatfield
In this hands-on workshop, individual administrators, faculty and staff members examine common factors that affect student success. Facilitators will lead a series of activities to help attendees identify their institution’s current realities and discover areas of opportunity for improving student success within their particular sphere of influence.
Workshop Features
- Tested, evidence-based insights from experts and accomplished practitioners.
- Guided discussions about promising practices and strategies.
- Opportunities to network with other higher education professionals.
Who Should Attend
Representatives of HLC-accredited or candidate institutions, including:
- Academic affairs professionals
- Assessment leaders
- Faculty members
- Institutional researchers
- Student services professionals
Workshop Leaders
Michael Boyd
Vice President for Instructional and Student Success, Kankakee Community College
Currently serving as Vice President for Instructional and Student Success at Kankakee Community College, Michael Boyd is the institution’s chief academic officer, responsible for administering the college’s credit and non-credit instruction and workforce development programs. His other roles at the college include oversight of strategic planning, quality improvement and accreditation. Michael came to Kankakee Community College from his role as Associate Dean of English, Humanities, and Language Studies at Illinois Central College, where he also served as the college’s Six Sigma Black Belt.
Janice Denton
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
Janice Denton is Professor and Department Chair in the Chemistry Department at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. She is a member of her university’s Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning and was awarded the Blue Ash College Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. She served as a mentor in HLC’s Assessment Academy from its inception in 2005, became a mentor in the Persistence and Completion Academy when it started in 2013, took on the role of Scholar for both Academies in 2016, and became a Senior Scholar in 2018. Denton has presented at regional and national assessment and teaching conferences and has worked with faculty on student learning and assessment at many colleges and universities.
Susan Hatfield
Professor Emerita, Winona State University
Susan Hatfield is Professor Emerita in the Communication Studies Department at Winona State University (WSU), where she taught from 1981 to 2015. During that time, she developed and directed WSU’s assessment program, served as a department chairperson, and coordinated the First Year Student Experience. She has recently completed appointments to the Board of Visitors for the Marine Corps University and the Board of Directors of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology. Susan is currently a Trustee with the Palmer College of Chiropractic.
Kathy Kiser-Miller
Vice President of Academic Affairs, Colorado Mountain College
Kathy Kiser-Miller has served as a full-time faculty member at Colorado Mountain College since 1995 and has also served as Dean of Academic Affairs, Faculty Senate President, and Discipline Coordinator for Humanities and Communication. Kathy was named the 2011 Educator of Year by the eLearning Consortium of Colorado for Online Course Delivery and Curriculum Development. Kathy has served as an AQIP Systems Portfolio Appraiser, a member of the Strategy Forum Redesign Team, and an Open Pathway Accreditation Chair for HLC.
Gloria Rogers
Adjunct Director for Professional Development, ABET
Gloria Rogers serves as the Adjunct Director for Professional Development at ABET. She has organized 14 symposia on program assessment and accreditation that have been attended by faculty from 600 institutions around the world. In addition, she has written 35 assessment-related articles, given more than 100 invited presentations at national and international conferences, and facilitated workshops and seminars at more than 110 campuses. She has also given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru.
Rob Spohr
Vice President for Student and Academic Affairs, Montcalm Community College
Rob is the Vice President for Student and Academic Affairs at Montcalm Community College (MCC). Rob served in the Marine Corps from 1983 to 1987, is a former small business owner/operator, and has held supervision and management positions in food processing, bottling, automotive manufacturing and commercial construction. Rob has been with MCC for 15 years, holding positions as a full-time faculty member, Dean of Occupational Education, and Vice President. Rob is also a small business counselor for SCORE and is President of the Montcalm Economic Alliance.
William Tammone
Provost, Macomb Community College
William Tammone is currently serving as Provost of Macomb Community College in Michigan. Macomb is located north of Detroit and is Michigan’s largest community college, typically serving around 21,000 credit students and approximately 1,400 noncredit students each semester. Tammone holds a Certificate in Integrated Planning from the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Planning Institute. Prior to starting at Macomb in 2017, Tammone served as the chief academic officer at Ivy Tech State College in Columbus, Indiana; Vice President for Academic Services at Montcalm Community College in Michigan; Provost of Illinois Central College; and Provost of the Colorado Community College System in Denver.