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D U C A T I O NPh.D., Rhetoric and Professional Communication December 2012 New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM
Certificate of Distance Education January 2004
Online through the University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Linguistics/TESOL Certificate June 1990
University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
B.A., Russian June 1988
University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
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D M I N I S T R A T I V E E X P E R I E N C EProfessor of English Fall 1996 to present
General Studies Division
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Assessment Coordinator Spring 2005 to present
Doña Ana Banch Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Director, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment 2012 to present and Retention Conference
Instructor of English Spring and Summer 2005
Customized Training
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Focus Group Facilitator Spring 2005
NMSU Title V Grant
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Instructor of English Summers 1997, 1998 and 1999
AHCOP Program
ESOL Program Coordinator Fall 1993 to Fall 1996 Department of Languages and Linguistics
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
ESL Instructor Summer 1993
Adult Basic Education
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Adjunct Faculty Spring 1993
Developmental Studies
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
ESL Program Director Fall 1990 to Summer 1992
English Department
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
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X P E R I E N C EWebCT Faculty Trainer Spring 1999 to January 2003
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
WebCT Administrator Spring 2001 to Spring 2005
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
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E R V I C EHLC Peer Reviewer Fall 2013 to present
Higher Learning Commission Chicago, IL
Board Member 2011 to present
Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education
2014 HLC Self Study Editor Summer 2010 to present
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
College Promotion and Tenure Committee Fall 2010 to 2013 Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
2008 HLC Self Study Editor Spring 2006 to Spring 2008
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Faculty Council President Fall 2005 to Fall 2006
Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
HLC Preliminary Information Form Editor Summer 2005 to March 2006 Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
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O R K S H O P SEngaging Students to Increase Persistence Using Performance Tasks
February 2013, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Learning Communities: A Faculty-Driven Intervention in Civil Discourse
October, 2012, TYCA- Southwest Conference Las Cruces, NM
Forging Working Assessment Communities
June, 2012, Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education Albuquerque, NM
Institutional Practices: Connecting the Dots among Programs of Diversity
March 2012, NMSU Diversity Conference Las Cruces, NM
Scaffolding Developmtnal Writers in Content Course
April, 2012, Higher Learning Commission Conference Chicago, IL
Developmental Studies Students: Working Toward Success
February 2012, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Creating a Culture of Assessment
February 2010, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Jumpstarting Assessment: A Problem-Based Model for Meaningful Assessment
April 2009, Higher Learning Commission Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Responding to Student Writing: Definitions and Efficacy
Fall 2008, SWADE and Community College Roundup, Las Cruces, NM
Forging Assessment Communities: Uncovering Values and Developing Tools
January 2008, Professional Development Day, UNM-Gallup, Gallup, NM
Forging Assessment Communities: Responsibility vs. Accountability
February 2008, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Las Cruces, NM
Turning Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) into sustainable Program Assessment (SPA)
March 2008, NADE Workshops, DACC, Las Cruces, NM
Solving Problems with WebCT
February 2006, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Las Cruces, NM
Creating Program-wide Rubrics Pre-Conference Workshop
Writing Across the Curriculum: NHMEAA Summer Retreat Report
February 2005, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Writing Across the Curriculum
October 2004, New Mexico Association of Community Colleges, Las Cruces, NM
Bridging the Gap Between Hands-on Laboratory Activities and the Distance Learner Pre-Conference Workshop
August 2004, Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, Madison, WI
Teaching Composition over the Internet: Theory and Practice
February 2004, Border Learning Conference, El Paso, TX
An Assessment of Freshman Composition Online
February 2004, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Practicing Assessment: Thinking Critically about Key Assumptions
February 2003, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Las Cruces
Facilitating Discussions Online
February 2003, Border Learning Conference, Las Cruces
Online and the Bottom Line: Strategies for Improving Student Success Through Technology
May 2002, New Mexico Association of Community Colleges, Taos, NM
Using Technology to Increase Student Learning: The Developmental Studies Student in the Hybrid Classroom
March 2002, Innovations 2002, Boston, MA
Faculty Tales—Getting Started
June 2001, National WebCT Conference, Vancouver, Canada
A Framework of Student Assessment of Self
February 2001, New Mexico Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM
WebCT Support Issues at Various Institutions
November 2000, CHECS, Albuquerque, NM
Changing the Face of a Program: Empower Faculty by Generating Meaningful Standards
March 2000 Chairs Conference, Dallas, TX
What's the Point to PowerPoint? Designing PowerPoint Presentations that Communicate
May 2000, 16th Annual Computers and Writing Conference, Fort Worth, TX
A Process Approach to Program Development
March 1999, New Mexico Higher Education Assessment Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Online Training Tools for the Internet
League of Innovation Conference, October 1999, Chicago, IL
Self-Directed Learning on the Web: A New Tradition for Developmental English Students
Transforming Teaching with Web Course Tools (WebCT)
Checs Conference, November 1999, Las Cruces, NM
Making Assessment Useful: A Framework for Program Assessment
Assessment Conference, February 1998, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico College Reading Learning Association, March 1998, Las Cruces, NM
Publishing on the Web: Opening the Doors of Community College Classrooms
Teaching at the Community Colleges, April 1998, on-line conference http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc98
Materials Bank on the Web
International Conference on Technology in Education, March 1998, Santa Fe, NM New Mexico College Reading Learning Association, March 1998, Las Cruces, NM
Using your Website as a Materials Bank
Mini-grant Fair, December 1997, Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Defenseless Learning in the ESL Computer Classroom
Computers and Writing Conference, May 1996, Logan, UT
Crossing Borders Using E-Mail and Daedalus
Eleventh Annual Computers and Writing Conference May 1995, El Paso, TX
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U B L I C A T I O N SWood, S. (2012). Basic writers perceptions of writing assessment practices. Dissertation.
Wood, S. & Laroche, P. (2010). Forging working assessment communities: Focusing attention on the tricky middle step. In T. Flateby (Ed), Improving writing and thinking through assessment. Charlotte, NC:
Information Age Publishing.
Book note of The social construction of literacy, 2nd edition by Jenny Gumperz. Published in Language in Society 37:4 (2008).
“Publishing on the Web: Opening the Doors of Community College Classrooms”, ERIC database, 1998. “A Materials Bank on the Web,” in ITCE 1998 Conference Proceedings, Sante Fe, New Mexico.
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O N S U L T I N GSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, August 2011 – Program Assessment Dinè College, May 13, 2010 – Assessment Across the Curriculum
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