St. Cloud State University

Wendy Bjorklund is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies where she has been involved with departmental level assessment for six years, three and a half years as her department's assessment committee's chairperson.  She is in her second year of serving as the College of Fine Arts and Humanities assessment coordinator and is a member of the university's Assessment Steering Committee.

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD). I am interested in assessment on several levels.I conduct ongoing assessment in my classes using formative and summative assessment tools.I was responsible for establishing how our department would meet our new accreditation standards and how we would assess those standards. I participated in the MnSCU Leadership Academy. There are several components of that training that might help me as a peer consultant, including how to develop effective work teams, how to manage individual/team conflict, and how to work with a diverse group of people and facilitate their strengths to work collaboratively. 

Melanie Guentzel is the Director of Graduate Student Services. She is a doctoral candidate in Student Affairs Administration and Research at the University of Iowa. She has participated in designing and implementing assessment practices in both academic and student affairs settings. Her areas of interest are assessment in graduate education and student life and qualitative methods for assessment.

I've been the Assessment Coordinator for LR&TS since 2005. I facilitate two large scale annual assessments of student awareness of and satisfaction with library and technology services -- a survey conducted in the library (300-600 students) and a telephone survey through the SCSU Survey (500-600 students) as well as smaller assessment projects. I enjoy designing surveys and conducting focus groups. I am a faculty reference librarian and teach in the Center for Information Media. 

Jim Knutson-Kolodzne is serving his third year on the Student Life & Development assessment committee. In August 2004, he started his position as Director of the American Indian Center. He also serves on the following university committees; Student-of-Color Recruitment and Retention, Enrollment Management, Cultural Diversity, Diversity Taskforce, Respect & Responsibility. At the system level he serves on MnSCU’s Diversity Officers Taskforce and the Diversity Awards Committee. In the St. Cloud community, he is a member of the Create CommUnity organization.

Sandra Johnson is the Assessment Coordinator for the College of Science and Engineering. In that capacity, and as a mathematics faculty member, she views assessment as an opportunity to improve student learning.

Joe Melcher has been the Assessment Coordinator for the College of Social Sciences since 2004 and General Education Assessment Director for SCSU since 2007. He looks forward to working with individual faculty and/or academic programs to make assessment of student learning both manageable and useful.

Kenneth Miller is an associate professor in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department. He is currently in his seventh year at St. Cloud State University. Dr. Miller has been in charge of assembling the accreditation (ABET) self-study for the Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering programs for the last four years. His current project is updating and documenting the department assessment methods.

Amos Olagunju has previously served as a managerial department chair, and a dean of graduate studies and chief research officer. Olagunju received his doctorate in Educational Research and Evaluation from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Over the years, Olagunju served on university-wide academic program evaluation task force, teaching effectiveness and outcome assessment committees at different institutions. He has over 20 years of experience with academic program assessment.

Professor in Department of Management, College of Business.
Have been coordinating assessment efforts at core course level for past year and a half.
Been teaching courses in management at SCSU for 2 years.
Had been a senior manager, consultant, engineer to diverse industries for over 20 years principally in areas of Quality Management systems, Operations, and Turnarounds. Implemented ISO 9001, AS9100, Six Sigma, Auditing/Assessment programs.

Jim Sherohman is in his second year as University Assessment Director. He also is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, which he chaired for five years. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Commission for Applied and Clinical Sociology, the accrediting body for sociology programs in the United States. He also is a member of the American Sociology Association’s Departmental Resources Group, which makes consulting visits to sociology departments.

Stuart Umberger serves as a member of the Student Life & Development assessment committee. In July of 2006, he started at SCSU as an Assistant Director for the Center for Student Organizations & Leadership Development office. His primary focus is in the development of Leadership programs and initiatives at SCSU. He also serves as the primary Fraternity & Sorority Learning Community Advisor.

Brenda Wentworth was SCSU's Director of Assessment from 1998-2002.  Working with faculty is a pleasure she misses from her assessment leadership days.  She hopes her training in assessment can assist others in their endeavors.

Gary Whitford has served as Field Coordinator for the Social Work Department.  During that time he also directed the assessment efforts for the program, which involves meeting accreditation requirements for assessment as prescribed by the Council on Social Work Education.

Dr. Carolyn Ruth A. Williams is an Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs and STEM Initiatives.She has previously served as Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the College of Social Sciences for seven years. She is currently in her 9th year at SCSU. Dean Williams has a wide array of experience working with program review, accreditation, assessing student learning and assessing programs success in accomplishing their goals and objectives. She has experience as a consultant for National Science Foundation, serving on their site visit teams for their Engineering Centers, evaluating the Centers activities, research, education and knowledge transfer. She has served on the National Institutes of Health(NIH) Advisory Board 5 year term. and she is a consultant for the U.S. Department of Education Postsecondary Education for GANN, Upward Bound, Ron McNair, etc. She also serves as a reviewer for the Minnesota State Department of Education