Dr. Joe Levy, Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation, National Louis University

Dr. Joseph D. Levy, serves as the Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation at National Louis University in Chicago, IL. Joe earned a BA in English from Baldwin-Wallace College, an MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and his Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership from National Louis University. Joe is a member of the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) Board of Directors, co-creator and instructor for the Applying and Leading Assessment in Student Affairs open course, and endorsed speaker for the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). Author, presenter, trainer, and consultant, Joe enjoys leveraging his academic and student affairs experience from multiple institutional types to talk assessment, quality assurance, and institutional betterment.

Dr. Keston Fulcher, Executive Director of Assessment, James Madison University

Keston Fulcher is a Professor in the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University. Keston also is the Executive Director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS). Keston ensures that CARS stays connected to the needs and priorities of the university, and sets the strategic direction for the Center. By fostering relationships between CARS and other units/organizations, both internal and external to JMU, Keston endeavors to help higher education transform from a "culture of assessment" to a "culture of learning improvement." His research interests focus on integrating assessment with learning improvement, meta-assessment, and assessment and ethical reasoning.

Cheryl Aschenbach, Secretary, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

Cheryl Aschenbach currently serves as secretary for the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC), where her work since June 2015 has focused on curriculum processes and standards, competency-based education (CBE), equity and diversity, minimum qualifications, career education, noncredit curriculum and instruction, basic skills, online education, open educational resources, incarcerated education, outcomes and assessment, and more. Cheryl is an English professor and past Academic Senate President at Lassen Community College in Susanville, CA. In the classroom, Aschenbach enjoys facilitating learning experiences that empower students and engage their individual and collective voices.

Dr. Natasha Jankowski, Higher Education & Assessment Consultant, N/A

Dr. Natasha Jankowski is the former Executive Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and previously served as a research associate professor with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of the book Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, as well as co-author of Degrees that Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm, and co-editor of Student-Focused Learning and Assessment: Involving Students in the Learning Process in Higher Education. A forthcoming book focuses on equity and assessment. Her areas of focus include assignment design, transparency, evidence-based storytelling, equity, mapping and alignment of learning, and all things assessment. Dr. Jankowski is the recipient of Kent State University’s Alumni Award and the Young Alumni Award from the College of Education at UIUC. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Kent State University, and a B.A. in philosophy from Illinois State University.