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2003-04 Officers and Board of Directors

Jonnie Blair – President
Jonnie Blair, a relative newcomer to SACCR, became President of SACCR at the end of the annual business meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has spent thirty years in higher education both as a faculty member and administrator. His experience includes work in institutional research, assessment and long range planning, institutional administration, business affairs, personnel management, teaching and academic and business computing. He has been a successful fundraiser and administrator for federal, state and private sector funding.

Jonnie came to Hopkinsville Community College in 2002 where he serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. From 1997-2002 he served as Director of Planning and Research at Somerset Community College where he installed an objective based PME system and trained all administrators in MBO, planning, and management. He also authored a planning manual and a fact book for the college. Jonnie assisted Somerset Community College in completing a successful SACS Self-Study. The College received only six recommendations, and no recommendations for planning, research, or institutional effectiveness.

Jonnie holds degrees from Morehead State University, University of Kansas, and the University of Kentucky with concentrations in biology and higher education administration. He studied planning and research at the National Laboratory for Higher Education.

Kathryn Hornsby

Kathryn Hornsby, President-Elect and Program Chair
Kathryn Hornsby will serve as program Chair for the 2004 Conference at Lake Lanier. She has served as the SACCR Georgia State Coordinator since 1997 and as Member-at-Large since 2001. Kathryn is Manager of Accountability and Institutional Effectiveness for the Technical College System of Georgia. In this role, her major responsibilities are managing Georgia's Performance Accountability System and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education grant. Previously she was an Educational Analyst for the Georgia Council on Vocational Education and a secondary classroom teacher.

Kathryn has been a member of numerous statewide data and evaluation committees. She is an associate member of the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium, a member of the Association of Career and Technical Education, and a member of the Association of Institutional Research (AIR). She received her Bachelor of Science in Social Studies Education from Auburn University and her Master of Arts in Sociology from Georgia State University. Currently, she is working towards a Ph.D. in Higher Education at Georgia State University. In her copious free time she enjoys traveling, hiking, and mystery novels.

Ned Lovell, Past-President.
Ned, Past President, and an active member and supporter of SACCR activities for the past nine years, served as Local Arrangements Chair for the SACCR Conference at Whispering Woods in Olive Branch, Mississippi. As President-Elect he put together an outstanding program for the Hot Springs Conference. When Jonnie Blair became ill this summer, Ned, as President, took on the additional responsibility of Program Chair. He put together an outstanding program for the St. Petersburg conference. Ned recently retired from his position as professor and department head. Now that he has emeritus status he is playing a little more golf and working half-time with the University.

Gwen Polk Aldridge

Gwen Polk Aldridge, Secretary
Gwen Polk Aldridge, Secretary, is also a newcomer to SACCR. She presently serves as the Director of Institutional Planning and Research at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi. Prior to taking this position in January, 2002, she taught mathematics. She places great value in the resources and networking opportunities of such an organization as SACCR, and is happy to be given the opportunity to serve as the association’s secretary for the coming year.

Gwen has served as Vice-President and as President of the Mississippi Collegiate Mathematics Association. For two consecutive years she made presentations for the Mississippi Academy of Sciences and has also presented for the Mississippi Collegiate Mathematics Association. The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation has recently accepted for publication her paper on “Bayesian Bootstrap Methods for Developmental Studies”.

Gwen attended Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she earned a B.S.E. degree in Mathematics, and the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, where she earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics, with area of concentration in Statistics. She lives with her husband and children in Batesville, Mississippi.

Jan Schwartz – Treasurer
Jan Schwartz, is serving a second term as Treasurer of SACCR. In addition to her duties as Treasurer, she served as Local Arrangements Chair for the St. Petersburg Conference. She is Director of Planning, Research and Evaluation for Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida. Her responsibilities include institutional research, enrollment planning and program evaluation. She has been with the college since February 2000. Prior to working in higher education, she was the Director of Evaluation for the Pinellas County Schools in Largo, Florida.

Jan has twenty years experience in three Florida public school systems with an emphasis on program evaluation and accountability. Her areas of concentration included evaluation, planning, grant writing, research, accountability, and testing. She serves as an instructor in statistics and educational issues for National Louis University, based in Wheeling, Illinois.

Jan received her doctorate from the University of South Florida in the area of educational research and measurement. She has been a member of the Florida Educational Research Association for fifteen years where she also served as President. She is a member of the Management Information Systems Advisory Task Force (MISATFOR) in Florida, and the American Association of Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC). Her objective as Treasurer will be to keep SACCR on a sound financial base.

Debra West, Member at Large. Debra West

Debra West

Debra, Member at Large, has been a member of SACCR for the past three years and served as Local Arrangements chair for the Hot Springs conference in 2002. She has worked in various positions in community colleges over the past 12 years, including serving as Assistant to the Academic Vice-President, Director of Admissions, Registrar, and Director of Institutional Research. She is currently the Director of Enrollment Management at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis, AR.

Debra is a graduate of East Arkansas Community College (A.A.) and the University of Memphis (B.S. in Physical Science, M.S. in Geography). Publications include Measurements of Mean Daily Solar Radiation for Memphis, Tennessee, 1982-1987, published in the October 1988 Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, Vol. 63, No. 4, and A Field Test of an Electrical-Capacitance Method for Measuring Soil-Water Content, published in Physical Geography, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1997. She recently completed the coursework for the Ph.D. in Community College Leadership at Mississippi State University.

She was selected by Mid-South Community College and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development to be a recipient of a 1998 NISOD Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. She is the incoming president of the Arkansas Institutional Research Organization (AIRO), and her other professional memberships include the National Council for Research and Planning, the Southern Association of Institutional Research, the Society for College and University Planning, and the Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Her goal as Member at Large will be to provide assistance as needed to the program chair in order to make the 2004 SACCR Conference the best yet.

Bruce Bartek, Member-at-Large (Membership Coordinator).
Bruce has been a member of SACCR since 1994 and has made presentations at several SACCR Conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Masters of Education in Educational Program Evaluation from the University of Virginia.

Bruce is Coordinator of Institutional Research at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia. JSRCC is the third largest of Virginia's 23 community colleges. He has worked at JSRCC since 1981, starting his career as a research assistant in the Office of Curriculum and Educational Planning. Over the years the office's name has changed as new areas of responsibility were added. The office, now called Academic Services and Research, includes the functional areas of Institutional Research, Academic Program and Administrative Unit Assessment, and Curriculum and Strategic Planning. While each staff member has a defined area of responsibility, in reality, daily work crosses boundaries , so Bruce is involved with all these areas.

In addition to his normal responsibilities, Bruce recently served on his college's PeopleSoft Deployment Team as they prepared to "go live" with a new Student Information System. He has also been involved with the development of a PC-based application designed to provide division chairs and executive officers with accurate daily reports on faculty workloads and instructional budget expenditures.

In the late 1980's Bruce served several terms as the community college representative to the Virginia Association for Management Analysis and Planning(VAMAP), the state level AIR Group in Virginia. In this capacity, he helped plan the group's annual fall conference. In 1991, he served as co-coordinator for VAMAP's spring one-day meeting. Outside his college activities, Bruce devotes considerable time volunteering with a local Humane Society, which has led to his amassing a critter collection that includes two large hairy dogs and four cats.

As Coordinator for Membership his goal will be to work with all state coordinators to make SACCR more visible and to increase membership. He will help the secretary and the treasurer to extend membership opportunities to new members and membership renewals for former members.

Edith (Edie) Carter, Editor. Edie Carter, Editor
Edie will, once again, serve as the Editor for the SACCR Newsletter, a duty she has performed for more years than she cares to remember.

A long time member of SACCR, Edie received her Ph. D. in Educational Research from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). When not applying the blue pencil to the SACCR newsletter, Edie serves as Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Radford University.

Lisa Kleiman, Web Master.
Lisa Kleiman has served as director of institutional effectiveness at Tidewater Community College since 1999. Her career began at TCC in 1979 as a research associate in the Office of Institutional Research. She progressed as coordinator of institutional research, and then director. In addition to her current duties heading the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning, she recently served as interim grants director for the college.

She holds a bachelor of science in business administration and a master of arts in economics from Old Dominion University.

Ms. Kleiman is a longtime member of the Southeastern Association of Community College Researchers (SACCR) and has served as chair of local arrangements for the 28th annual conference held in Norfolk, an at-large member on the SACCR Board, SACCR Virginia state coordinator, and SACCR webmaster for the last five years.



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