Participant List - May 7, 2015
Leading Large Scale Change – Strategies for Growing Academic Initiatives for Student
Success: A Visit with Abby Parcell (MDC)
We gather across the college to talk with Abby Parcell as she shares some of the challenges
faced, lessons learned, and effective practices in the development of meaningful, life-changing
efforts that directly impact the lives of our students. She will be drawing on her work within the
Achieving the Dream (AtD) initiative assisting community colleges in order to scale up effective
practices. Abby will be sharing what she has learned about the effective use of evaluation
methods to understand initiatives, document results, and to improve and scale-up effective
practices related to the many initiatives across the college that directly impact student success.
Read her related report More to Most here: http://more2most.org/
About Abby Parcell: She supports learning networks and contributes research and writing
across a number of MDC projects, including Made in Durham, NC VetsCorps, and State of the
South. She was a part of MDC’s Achieving the Dream team and continues to participate in
MDC’s work with community colleges. As project director of the Developmental Education
Initiative (2009-2013), she developed More to Most, a guidebook and accompanying workshop
to help community colleges and community partnerships scale up effective practices.
http://www.mdcinc.org/about-us/our-people/abby-parcell
May 7, 2015 - Thursday at 9 am – noon, West campus Special Events Center
New Student Experience (NSE) Faculty Members
Marsha Butler
Christy Cheney
Dina El Musa
Larry Herndon
Jenny Lee
Sharon May
Mia Pierre
LaVonda Walker
Terry Rafter-Carles
Heather Ramsier
Denise Richardson
Anna Saintil
Jackie Starren
Jennifer Tomlinson
Daniel Turner
Valencia College Academic Initiative Leaders
Jennifer Adams
Professor
Mathematics
East Campus
Initiative: Supplemental Learning (SL)
Daeri Tenery
Professor
Chemistry
East Campus
Initiatives: Supplemental Learning (SL), CARE
Robert Schachel
Professor
English
East Campus
Initiative: Supplemental Learning (SL)
James Coddington
Instructional Assistant, Sr.
Learning Center
Osceola Campus
Initiative: Supplemental Learning (SL)
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Boris Nguyen
Professor
Mathematics
West Campus
Initiative: Supplemental Learning (SL)
Claudia Genovese Martinez
Professor
Mathematics
West Campus
John Niss
Professor
Mathematics
Winter Park Campus
Initiative: Ramp Up Project (concluded)
Katy Miller
Campus Director
Library
Winter Park
Initiative: CARE
Michele McArdle
Executive Dean
Winter Park Campus
Initiative: Student Readiness for Online Learning
Michael Blackburn
Manager
Learning Support Services
Lake Nona Campus
Initiative: Supplemental Learning (SL)
Cheryl Robinson
Director
Honors Program
West Campus
Glenn Ricci
Coordinator, Curriculum
Curriculum & Assessment
District Office
Jennifer Robertson
Director
Study Abroad & Global Experiences
District Office
Initiative: Internationalizing the Curriculum
Karen Borglum
Asst. VP, Curriculum & Assessment
Curriculum & Articulation
District Office
Initiatives: LinC, Service Learning,
Internationalizing the Curriculum
Laura Blasi
Director
Institutional Assessment
District Office
Initiatives: All
Robyn Brighton
Director
Curriculum Initiatives
Director Office
Initiatives: LinC, Service Learning, CARE
Tammy Gitto
Professor
Humanities
Osceola Campus
Initiative: Internationalizing the Curriculum
Christina Hardin
Director
New Student Experience (NSE)
District Office
Initiative: NSE
Daryl Davis
Director
Institutional Research
West Campus
Initiatives: All
Wendi Dew
Asst. Vice President
Faculty & Instructional Development
District Office
Initiatives: All
Susan Ledlow
Vice President, Academic Affairs & Planning
Academic Affairs
District Office
Initiatives: All
Leonard Bass
Campus Dean
Learning Support
East Campus
Initiatives: SL, LinC, Service Learning, CARE
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Landon Shephard
Campus Dean
Learning Support
Osceola Campus
Initiatives: REACH, SL, LinC, Service Learning
Christie Miller
Professor
EAP
Osceola Campus
Initiative: Service Learning
Tanisha Carter
Director
Bridges to Success Program
West Campus
Initiative: Bridges
Elisha Gonzalez Bonnewitz
Director
Take Stock in Children, Community Affairs
District Office
Initiative: Take Stock in Children
Karen Reilly
Campus Dean
Learning Support
West Campus
Initiatives: SL, LinC, Service Learning
Jenny Charriez
Director
Employee Development
District Office
Eda Davis-Lowe
Director
LSAMP B2B Project
Osceola Campus
Initiative: LSAMP
Cathy Penfold Navarro
Director
Pathways Title III
West Campus
Initiative: Pathways
Jason Dodge
Asst. Director
Student Development
West Campus
Ed Holmes
Campus Director
Advising , Title III
West Campus
Initiative: Pathways
Evelyn Lora-Santos
Campus Director
Advising
East Campus
Rachel Allen
Professor
Humanities
East Campus
Initiative: Peace and Justice Initiative (PJI)
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Nicole Palmer
Coordinator
Career Pathways, Perkins Career Pathways
District Office
Dori Haggerty
Campus Director
Faculty & Instructional Development
West Campus
Page Jerzak
Associate Director
Faculty and Instructional Development
District Office
Initiative: Student Readiness for Online Teaching
and Learning
Shara Lee
Campus Director
Faculty & Instructional Development
Osceola Campus
Initiatives: Student Readiness for Online Learning,
LinC, Service Learning, Internationalizing the
Curriculum
Jyoti Pande
Campus Director
Faculty & Instructional Development
East Campus
Initiative: CARE, LifeMap