The AEFIS Team is excited to host the Inaugural AEFIS Users Meeting as part of the 5th Annual Drexel Assessment Conference. The meeting will offer the opportunity for users to share their strategies for using AEFIS to support their assessment, continuous improvement and accreditation efforts. Come share and learn while you network with colleagues from across the country and the AEFIS Team.
As the highlight of our Inaugural Users Meeting, we are delighted to have a few of our partners give 15-Minute Lightning Presentations on the work they have been doing with AEFIS in collaboration with our team.
Please share this event with AEFIS Users on your campus.
Jane Marie Souza is an associate provost for academic administration at the University of Rochester. In her role, Souza serves as the University’s chief assessment officer and accreditation liaison officer.
Souza has served on accreditation teams for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education and the Council on Podiatric Medical Education, where she also serves as a member of the Council. Recently, Dr. Souza was voted president-elect of the Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE).
Souza received her PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a master’s in education from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Massachusetts–Boston.
Suzanne Carbonaro is the Director of Assessment at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of Sciences. In her current role, Suzanne is a member of the Dean’s Leadership Team, which led the re-accreditation efforts of the College of Pharmacy in its most recent ACPE visit in fall 2017. She is currently leading the assessment of PCP’s competency-driven curriculum and co-curricular program.
Carbonaro, was awarded the third annual Founders’ Day Staff Award of Merit on Feb. 15, 2018. The award is presented to an outstanding staff member who “exemplifies the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of USciences’ founders, and who has engaged in research, or some form of scholarly pursuit, that results in the development or discovery of something new.”
Carbonaro has 20-plus years of experience in higher education administration and leadership. She came to USciences from Rider University where she served as director of assessment and strategic partnerships in the College of Education. Under her leadership, Rider received national recognition for its 18 education programs and full term NCATE accreditation.
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Dr. Steven M. Cramer has served as the vice provost for teaching and learning since 2014, building on his prior leadership roles in the College of Engineering and across UW-Madison. He began his academic career in 1984 as an assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UW-Madison. In addition to a career long pursuit of new approaches to teaching and learning, Cramer’s scholarship is in structural and materials engineering. He is a fellow of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy and was awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the Tau Beta Pi National Mentor Award, the Champion Award for Advancing the Status of Women at UW-Madison and others.
Mo Bischof serves as associate vice provost for academic affairs and director of assessment in the Office of the Provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work includes policy development and strategic coordination of number of campus initiatives including educational innovation, academic planning and learning assessment, institutional accreditation and academic leadership development.
As the director of assessment, she is responsible for leading a range of programmatic, operational and policy areas designed to support academic program quality and learning assessment across campus. Mo also coordinates a number of faculty development programs including department chair leadership, dean onboarding, mid-career faculty mentoring, cluster hiring initiative and other academic leadership enhancement programs.
She has more than 30 years of administrative experience in higher education and consults regionally and nationally on academic leadership, learning assessment and organizational change strategies.
AEFIS is the complete solution for assessment and continuous improvement on your campus. Our assessment management platform enables easy automation of evaluation, supports individual student assessment, facilitates curriculum review, streamlines campus-wide accreditation processes, and helps to achieve your strategic and educational goals.
