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Higher Education Executive Symposia for Academic Leadership
We will continue to update this page as we confirm speakers for our April event.

April 4, 2013

 

Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.


April 5, 2013

 


defining integrations between Blackboard’s learning management system and major publishers’ digital content. Before coming to Blackboard, Katie served as the Chief Information Office (CIO) for Federal Student Aid at the U.S. Department of Education.  As CIO she was responsible for promoting the effective use of technology to achieve Federal Student Aid’s strategic objectives through sound technology planning and investments, integrated technology architecture and standards, effective systems development and production support.  Prior to becoming CIO, Katie was the Deputy General Manager for the Application, School Eligibility and Delivery Services Unit, responsible for processing over 14 million student applications for federal student aid and delivering over $60 billion in Title IV programs through approximately 6,200 postsecondary institutions.

Prior to joining the Department of Education, Katie worked at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) in its higher education group.  In her 10+ years there, she worked with hundreds of schools advising on the effective delivery of student services.

Katie has almost 20 years of experience in the education industry, providing leadership in the business and technology realms and understands how to realize the benefits of effectively aligning human capital, business processes and technology to achieve business objectives at educational institutions.   
Katie has also served as a national speaker presenting on topics such as: “STEM Education and the Power of Technology”, “Achieving Learning Outcomes in a Changing Education Landscape” and “What’s Next for Education: The New Course Ecosystem.”
Katie Blot
President, Global Services Division, Blackboard
Katie leads Blackboard’s Global Services business, which provides consulting, hosting and student services to organizations around the world empowering them to envision, prepare for and realize the future of education.  In this capacity, Katie guides a team of over 700 people to generate new market opportunities, build organizational capacity and drive operational excellence.  She also provides executive oversight for client relationship management and internal operations.
 Previous to taking this role, Katie served for four years as the Senior Vice President for Consulting at Blackboard where she provided executive support for state and system-wide eLearning implementations and the development of market-
Alexander C. McCormick, Ph. D.
Director, National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
Alexander C. McCormick is an associate professor of education at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. He also directs the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), housed at IU’s Center for Postsecondary Research. Since its inception in 2000, more than 1,500 bachelor’s-granting colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada have used NSSE to assess the extent to which undergraduates engage in and are exposed to effective educational practices. Through this work, McCormick aims to enrich the national discourse about quality and accountability in higher education, while also providing institutions with tools to diagnose and improve undergraduate teaching and learning. His research interests center around assessment, accountability, and evidence-based improvement in higher education.

Before coming to Indiana, McCormick served as a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an educational research and policy center. In that role, he led a major overhaul of the Foundation’s widely-used classification of U.S. colleges and universities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in French from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. in education and sociology from Stanford University.