GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Catherine Neiner's path has taken her to number of career centers at a variety of colleges and universities - large, small, public and private. One of the turning points in her path was being awarded a Fulbright to study the beginning of the career services profession in Germany. Some of the leadership opportunities that have crossed her path included serving as President of the Georgia Association of Colleges and Employers and serving on the board of directors of the National Association of Colleges and Employers. She has been invited along the way to speak at state, regional and national conferences.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Dr. Allison Calhoun-Brown (Ph.D. Emory University, 1994) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University . Her research and teaching interests include public opinion, religion and politics, and African American politics. Dr. Calhoun-Brown is particularly interested in the influence of churches and ministers on political behavior in the black community. She is a past chair of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association and has published her research in journals such as The American Politics Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, and The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her current research projects examine the effects of religiosity on the political attitudes and behaviors of African Americans
Dr. Angela Christie was selected as the faculty director of the next Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): College to Career: Career Readiness through Everyday Competencies in fall 2018. College to Career is a university-wide initiative that will increase students' ability to recognize and demonstrate the career competencies they are learning through their curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular experiences. As faculty director, Dr. Christie oversees the development, refinement and implementation of College to Career and works with units and personnel across the university. She is working with departments to design their plans for QEP participation, conducting periodic surveys and assessments to measure the QEP's success, and planning activities to raise faculty and student awareness about the QEP on all campuses. A senior lecturer on the Atlanta Campus in the Department of English, Dr. Christie has been the associate director of Lower Division Studies since 2007. In that capacity, she has mentored graduate teaching assistants, edited the university's Guide to First-Year Writing, served as the assessment reporter for the department's core courses and developed paired-instructor courses for the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Christie has led her department in developing college-to-career assignments, curricula and pedagogical practices in core courses and the major.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Since 2017, Dr. Michael Galchinsky has served as the Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness (APIE), leading the university's Office of Institutional Effectiveness. He and his office are responsible for facilitating the reaffirmation of Georgia State's accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). His team provides Georgia State University's academic community with access to data, institutional research, and assessments that inform university decision making. Dr. Galchinsky joined Georgia State University in 1998 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. His scholarship has studied human rights literature and culture, genocide and mass atrocity prevention, international human rights and humanitarian law, and Jewish studies. Since 2009, he has been a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. He held the Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship from the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (2006-2007), and a Visiting Skirball Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University (1998). Prior to becoming APIE, Dr. Galchinsky was the director of Georgia State's program in Jewish Studies, served as a University senator, and sat on the executive committees of English, the Middle East Institute, and the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he co-chaired a committee of the University Senate to guide a redesign of the Academic Program Review policy. In July 2014, Dr. Galchinsky was appointed to serve as the university's first Director of APR and Distance Education. In that role, he developed the data displays and procedures for APR, and facilitated over a dozen completed reviews. He also chaired the Distance Education Council, helping to develop relevant policies for the university.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Augusto comes to Georgia State from the University of Kansas, where he served most recently as the assistant vice provost for experiential learning. At Kansas, he provided key leadership in experiential learning, undergraduate research, community engagement, national fellowships, research administration and graduate education. Augusto graduated from Washburn University in 1991 with a bachelors of arts degree in English and received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Kansas in 2009. Augusto served as an elected councilor for the Council on Undergraduate Research; a member of TRUCEN, The Research University's Civic Engagement Network, which is the committee formed by the Campus Compact to promote civic engagement at AAU research universities. He is a lifetime member of the Society of Chicanos and Native Americans (SACNAS) where he is an alumnus of the Linton Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute; the Advanced Leadership Institute; and has presented numerous times at the annual SACNAS conference.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Political Science
John S. Duffield, Ph.D, is Professor of Political Science and the Director of Academic Assessment at Georgia State University. He received a doctorate in public and international affairs from Princeton University. His teaching and research focus on international politics and the politics of energy, both in the United States and abroad. He is the author of four books and has co-edited two others. At Georgia State University, he has served on the University Senate, including as chair of the committee on university statutes and senate bylaws; the social and behavioral sciences committee on promotion and tenure, and a number of other university-wide committees.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Kim R. Ramsey-White joined the School of Public Health in August of 2012. Director of Undergraduate Programs Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Ramsey-White teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in health disparities and research methods. She has also worked extensively in the area of diversity strategic planning in the higher education arena. Prior to joining the faculty in the Institute of Public Health, Dr. Ramsey-White served as the university liaison to the Carver Early College High School program in Atlanta, GA. Earlier in her public health career she worked as the disease prevention/health promotion coordinator at the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center in Mount Vernon, NY. She has also served as the data manager and youth services coordinator for another Georgia State University project - Project Healthy Grandparents. Dr. Ramsey-White holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Hampton University, an MPH from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a Ph.D. in Research, Measurement and Statistics from Georgia State University. In addition to providing leadership for the RTE core and broadly supporting the Center of Excellence, she will also focus on engaging, educating and training students at the K-12, undergraduate and graduate levels.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director of the Center for Excellence
Laura Carruth became the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in November 2014. She is an Associate Professor in the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Biology and has a secondary appointment in the School of Public Health. She has been interested in all aspects of teaching and learning since she was a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is particularly interested in expanding research efforts in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at Georgia State. She runs workshops on a variety of pedagogical topics including student engagement and active learning, hybridized classes, and pre-assessment techniques. Her CETL goals for 2015-16 are to increase participation of faculty and students from across campus in various CETL programs and workshops and she's excited that the new CETL Faculty Teaching Fellows program is underway. She is always available to meet with any instructor to discuss issues related to teaching and SoTL research
Mary Elizabeth Tyler Boucebci is Community-Based Learning Coordinator. Her position is housed within the Center for Community Engagement, a collaboration among Georgia State University's Perimeter College, School of Public Health, and College of Education and Human Development. In this role, she is responsible for faculty and community partnership development for Academic Community Engagement (ACE), including the pedagogies of service learning and community-based research as well as community-based learning opportunities that enhance student understanding of academic content and inspire civic responsibility. Mary Elizabeth has over seventeen years of experience facilitating meaningful and mutually-beneficial relationships among institutions of higher learning and the communities in which they are situated. She holds a B.A. with Honors in French and Religion from Berry College, where she was a Bonner Scholar, and an M.A. with Honors in American Studies from Kennesaw State University. Mary Elizabeth is currently pursuing her PhD in Communication. Her research focuses on the democratization of campus-community partnerships, mass media representations of religious identity, and the implications of religious and media illiteracy for our democracy.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Fellow for the University Innovation Alliance
Ryan Maltese is a Project Director and post-doctoral Fellow for the University Innovation Alliance in the Office of the Senior Vice President for Student Success. He directs multiple grants for the office and is primarily responsible for the management and implementation of the division's college-to-career initiatives. As a UIA Fellow, he is part of a professional network of administrators across 11 public research universities who develop and scale programs focused on increasing access to postsecondary education for first-generation and low-income students.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Applied Linguistics
Sara Cushing Weigle is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA She has published research in the areas of assessment, second language writing, and teacher education, and is the author of Assessing Writing (2002, Cambridge University Press). She has been invited to speak and conduct workshops on second language writing assessment throughout the world, most recently in Egypt, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Austria.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee