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                           APPENDIX B

                    DIRECTORY OF CONSULTANTS

The following list of consultants consists only of those people who
were involved in the "Courage to Question" project. The names
include two groups: individuals who were part of the National
Assessment Team advising participants about assessment and women's
studies faculty members from participating institutions who had
gained expertise and would have time to assist other campuses in
assessment projects. We have highlighted specializations and
strengths to facilitate matching the consultant to meet specific
needs of a campus assessment project.

CAROLYNE W. ARNOLD
Assistant Professor
College of Public and Community Services
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Boston, Massachusetts 02125

National Assessment Team Member
Carolyne Arnold, who also is a senior researcher at the Wellesley
College Center for Research on Women, has conducted a number of
evaluation research and assessment studies and has extensive
experience in the application of a range of quantitative as well as
qualitative methods and techniques. Her skills include the
conceptualization of research designs and methodologies, sample
selection, survey and questionnaire construction, interviewing
techniques, participant observation, social science experiments,
reduction and interpretation of data, and related facets of
investigation. Her area of expertise is minority women and the
epidemiology of reproductive biology.

ANITA CLAIR FELLMAN
Director, Women's Studies Program
Associate Professor of History
Old Dominion University
BAL 809
Hampton Boulevard
Norfolk, Virginia 23529

Anita Clair Fellman co-authored "Making Connections" in The Courage
to Question: Women's Studies and Student Learning. Her field of
specialization is American history. Her publications include
Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History; "Laura Ingalls
Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: The Politics of a Mother-Daughter
Relationship"; and "The Literature of Individualism: The Little
House Books in American Culture" (forthcoming). Her strengths in
assessment are in setting realistic goals; assessing the knowledge
base, especially in women's studies; and creating strategies for
building cohesive investigative teams.

LAURIE ANN FINKE
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio 43022

Laurie Ann Finke, formerly a faculty member at Lewis and Clark
College, is the co-author of "A Single Curriculum" in The Courage
to Question. Her fields of specialization include theory, feminist
theory, and gender studies. Her strengths as assessment consultant
include portfolio assessment, design of assessment tools, and
curriculum integration and its assessment. Finke's publications
include Feminist Theory, Women's Writing: The Uses of Complexity;
and "Pedagogy of the Depressed: Feminism, Poststructuralism, and
Pedagogic Practice" (forthcoming).

PAT HUTCHINGS
Director, AAHE Teaching Initiative
American Association for Higher Education
One Dupont Circle, Suite 360
Washington, D.C. 20036

National Assessment Team Member and project external evaluator Pat
Hutchings formerly was the director of AAHE's Assessment Forum,
which promotes approaches to assessment that involve faculty
members and foster more and better student learning. She is the
author of numerous articles on creative teaching and assessment,
including "Watching Assessment: Questions, Stories, Prospects" and
"Learning Over Time: Portfolio Assessment." She has worked with
hundreds of faculty members on teaching, learning, and assessment.
Hutchings' strengths as an assessment consultant include working on
the early stages of a project, where a group comes to understand
what assessment, at its best, might do for them and their program.
She also is helpful with questions such as: Who is doing what on
campuses across the country? What seems to be working when it comes
to contributing to student learning? Who are the people to talk to
for special advice?

LEE KNEFELKAMP
Chair, Higher Education Department
Professor of Higher Education
P.O. Box 101
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, New York 10027

Chair, National Assessment Team
Lee Knefelkamp's areas of expertise include: intellectual and
ethical development in both traditional and women's models/methods
of assessment; helping faculty members create and use "cues"
(phrases, language structure) to assess this type of development;
and differentiating learning styles, using Myers-Briggs, Kolb, and
other models of differences in learning styles. She also has
expertise in the construction of questionnaires and interview
formats and recording of information. Knefelkamp is skilled at
creating "decision rules" that groups use to view contextually
specific data such as exams, papers, presentations;
personal/interpersonal development; and finding ways to assess
interpersonal growth dynamics. Finally, she has experience working
with portfolios, assessment of experiential learning, exam
questions, short/quick classroom assessment techniques, and
participant observation.

CARYN McTlGHE MUSIL
Senior Research Associate
Association of American Colleges
1818 R Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009

Project Director, "The Courage to Question: Women's Studies and
Student Learning" 
Caryn McTighe Musil is the editor of three publications emerging
from "The Courage to Question." She formerly was the executive
director of the National Women's Studies Association. Musil was
chair of the Women's Studies National Task Force that wrote Liberal
Learning and the Women's Studies Major and is the author of
numerous articles and presentations on women's studies, assessment,
curriculum transformation, and student learning. She has served as
a consultant and external evaluator at more than a dozen colleges
and universities. Musil's special expertise is in women's studies
program development, curriculum development, faculty development,
and pedagogy. Her strengths in assessment include: "detoxifying"
the term, getting started on a project, identifying potential
sources of data collections, constructing an inclusive assessment
design, and using research findings strategically for program
development and improvement.


MICHELE PALUDI
Professor of Psychology
Hunter College, City University of New York
695 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10021

Michele Paludi, formerly director of Hunter's Women's Studies
Program, is the co-author of "Feminist Education" in The Courage to
Question. Her field of specialization is experimental psychology,
with an emphasis on career development concerns. Paludi's strengths
as assessment consultant include developing surveys and
establishing assessment workshops for faculty members and
administrators. Her publications include Foundations for a Feminist
Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines; Exploring/Teaching the
Psychology of Women: A Manual of Resources; and "Integrating the
Scholarship on Ethnicity into the Psychology of Women Course."

JOAN POLINER SHAPIRO
Associate Dean, College of Education
Ritter Hall, 2nd Floor
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

National Assessment Team Member
Joan Poliner Shapiro, who was for many years co-director of the
women's studies program at the University of Pennsylvania, is the
author of numerous articles on evaluation and assessment,
including, "Participatory Evaluation: Towards a Transformation of
Assessment for Women's Studies Programs and Projects" and
"Consideration of Ethical Issues in the Assessment of Feminist
Projects: A Case Study Using Illuminative Evaluation." She
possesses a background in evaluating both quantitative and
qualitative assessment approaches and has helped design
questionnaires and interview formats for feminist projects. She
calls her particular form of assessment "participatory evaluation."
Shapiro has served as external evaluator at many diverse higher
educational sites including, among others, Bryn Mawr College, Great
Lakes Colleges at the University of Michigan, and the University of
Delaware.

LINDA R. SILVER
Coordinator, Women's Studies Program
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio 44074

Linda Silver is the author of "Self-Empowerment and Difference" in
The Courage to Question. Her field of specialization is public
administration and librarianship, and she has had assessment
experience at Oberlin College, Cleveland State University, and
Cuyahoga County Public Library. Silver's experience best
corresponds to assessment activities within interdisciplinary
academic programs or public organizations with more than four
hundred employees.

JILL MATTUCK TARULE
Dean of the College of Education and Social Services
University of Vermont
311 Waterman Building
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0160

National Assessment Team Member One of the authors of Women's Ways
of Knowing, Jill Mattuck Tarule is interested in assessment
emphasizing qualitative research and formative evaluation. Tarule
is experienced with all aspects of interviewing (design of
interview schedule, training interviewers, data analysis),
including that which incorporates exploring cognitive reasoning and
other developmental themes. She places particular emphasis on how
women as learners have distinct needs that frequently are not
addressed by mainstream academic cultures. Tarule has worked with
instruments other than interviews and can consult on the use of the
Kolb Learning Style Inventory, Loevinger's Ego Development Scale,
and student self-evaluations. She also has done a number of program
evaluations using a qualitative narrative approach and creates
designs sensitive to sociopolitical issues within an institution.


MARY KAY THOMPSON TETREAULT
Dean, School of Human Development and Community Service
California State University-Fullerton
Fullerton, California 92634

National Assessment Team Member
Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault is co-author of Inside Women's
Classrooms: Mastery, Voice, Authority and Positionality
(forthcoming). She is the author of numerous articles in education
and women's studies journals, including "Integrating Content About
Women and Gender Into the Curriculum" and "Inside Feminist
Classrooms: An Ethnographic Approach" (forthcoming). Her interests
include the ways feminist theory informs the transformation of the
disciplines, the evaluation of women's studies courses and
curriculum integration projects, and feminist ways of teaching. She
can assist in ethnographic approaches to assessment. Tetreault's
earlier work included the development of feminist phase theory--a
classification scheme that details the evolution in thought during
the past twenty years about the incorporation of women's
traditions, history, and experiences into selected disciplines.

GAY VICTORIA
Instructor/Research Assistant, Women's Studies Program
University of Colorado
Cottage No. 1, Campus Box 246
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0246

Gay Victoria is the co-author of "Personalized Learning" in The
Courage to Question. Her field of specialization is feminist
pedagogy. Victoria's strengths as an assessment consultant include
an ability to identify phenomena that warrant more intensive
investigation, or "progressive focusing." Her experience best
corresponds to assessment activities within women's studies
programs at large institutions, using classroom observation and
illuminative

JEAN WARD
Director, Gender Studies Program
Professor of Communications
Lewis and Clark College
Portland, Oregon 97219

Jean Ward is the co-author of "A Single Curriculum" in The Courage
to Question. Her field of specialization is rhetoric and public
address. Her strengths as an assessment consultant include
curricular integration assessment for women's studies and gender
studies, portfolio assessment for women's studies and gender
studies, assessment of knowledge base and learning skills in
women's studies and gender studies, and the use of interviews in
assessment. She has served as a reviewer for FIPSE on grant
proposals for projects related to women, minorities, and core
curriculum. Ward's presentations include "Incorporating Feminist
Scholarship into the Core Curriculum: Model Projects in the
Northwest" and "Incorporating Perspectives on Women in the
Undergraduate Curriculum: Taking a Close Look." Her experience best
corresponds to assessment activities in women's studies or gender
studies at private liberal arts colleges, using qualitative and
quantitative methodologies.

MARCIA WESTKOTT
Director, Women's Studies Program
Professor of Sociology
University of Colorado
Cottage No. 1, Campus Box 246
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0246

Marcia Westkott is the co-author of "Personalized Learning" in The
Courage to Question. Her field of specialization is feminist theory
and the psychology of women. She has had assessment experience at
the University of Colorado Oregon State University, and Western
Washington State University. Westkott's strengths as an assessment
consultant include the ability to synthesize information and
materials. Her publications include "The New Psychology of Women:
A Cautionary View" (forthcoming) and "Women's Studies as a Strategy
for Change: Between Criticism and Vision." Her presentations
include "Assessing Women's Studies Programs"; "Integrating Women of
Color in the Liberal Arts Curriculum"; and "The General Education
Requirement." She has served as a consultant to the women's studies
program at the University of Arizona, the Women's Studies
Integration Project at Colorado College, and the University of
Maine.

BARBARA ANN WINSTEAD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Old Dominion University
Hampton Boulevard
Norfolk, Virginia 23529

Barbara Ann Winstead is the co-author of "Making Connections" in
The Courage to Question. Her field of specialization is personality
and developmental psychology. Her presentations include "Assessment
of Student Learning in Women's Studies at Old Dominion University";
"Relationship and Achievement Stressors: Sex Differences in
Appraisals, Coping, and Outcome"; and "Contemporary Topics in
Personality Theory, Research, and Applications: Attachment and
Gender." Her strengths in assessment are in setting realistic
goals; assessing the knowledge base, especially in women's studies;
and creating strategies for building cohesive investigative teams.