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2011 Keynotes

Pre-Conference - Sponsored by Iowa Campus Compact



Karin Trail-Johnson

Karin Trail-Johnson is the Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship and the Director of the Civic Engagement Center at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  With over 20 years of experience in the community-based learning field, Karin has successfully worked to build broad ownership of education for global citzenship throughout her institution.  The value of service to others can be seen in tangible ways on a curricular, co-curricular and on an operational level.  in addition to her work at Macalester, Karin has served as an oustide reviewer of the Community Based Learning Program at several liberal arts colleges and hosts campus visits for many other schools that want to learn from the Macalester model.  She is a recipient of the Pat Kowalski Leadership Award from the MN Campus Compact for success in building strategic, reciprocal long-term campus and community partnerships and catalyzing institutional change.  She has also received the Bonner Service Award from the Bonner Foundation.  Karin has served on the Minnesota Campus Compaact Assessment Leadership Team, which seeks to improve the practice of civic engagment statewide and beyond, through enhanced assessment strategies.  Karin was selected to participate in the "Advancing Women's Leadership" Forum sponsored by the American Council of Education's Office of Women in Higher Education and recently returned from a sabbatical where she explored the role of mindful action in the liberal arts.
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Dr. George Kuh

George Kuh is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at Indiana University Bloomington. George was the founding director of the Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and related instruments for law students, beginning college students, and faculty. He currently directs two national projects, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (with Stan Ikenberry at the University of Illinois) and the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), the first-ever in-depth look at the factors that help or hinder the careers of graduates of arts-intensive training high schools and postsecondary institutions. At Indiana University, he served as chairperson of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (1982-84), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Education (1985-88), and Associate Dean of the Faculties for the Bloomington campus (1997-2000).George has more than 300 publications and made several hundred presentations on topics related to institutional improvement, college student engagement, assessment strategies, and campus cultures. In addition, he has been a consultant to more than 300 institutions of higher education and educational agencies in the United States and abroad. His contributions have been recognized with awards from the American College Personnel Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for Institutional Research, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Council of Independent Colleges, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and National Center on Public Policy in Higher Education. In addition, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award and Educational Leadership Award for Teaching from St. Cloud State University, several Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards from Indiana University, the Dean's Award for outstanding contributions by a faculty member to the quality of undergraduate life at IUB, and the prestigious Tracy Sonneborn Award from Indiana University for a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching. A past-president of ASHE, George holds six honorary degrees (Luther College, Midland Lutheran College, Millikin University, Post University, Washington and Jefferson College, Winthrop University), and serves on the Board of Regents at Luther College and the National Leadership Council for the Association of American College and Universities "Liberal Education and America's Promise" initiative.George received the B.A. from Luther College, M.S. from St. Cloud State University, and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Dr. Kuh, retired from Indiana University in 2010, continues to actively engage in research and service as an adjunct instructor at the University of Illinios. His research looks at enhancing student success and improving the quality of the undergraduate experience.    

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Dr. Adriel Hilton

Adriel A. Hilton serves as executive assistant to the President and chief diversity officer at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. Prior to this appointment, Hilton worked as the inaugural public policy fellow in the highly competitive fellowship program at the Greater Baltimore Committee, where he worked closely for two years with the CEO on such public policy issues as economic growth, regional transportation, education and workforce preparedness. He recently served as a Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholar at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in the College of Education and in the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Dr. Hilton is a graduate of the Higher Education (Ph.D.) program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as a doctoral student, he assumed a number of leadership roles such as serving as a member of the University Council and president of the Graduate Student Association. He was also elected vice president for conference affairs for the National Black Graduate Student Association.

While a master’s student in public administration at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Hilton completed internships with the Florida Senate Committee on Education and the State University System Florida Board of Governors’. He attended the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy’s Quantitative Skills Summer Program at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School’s Leadership Academy, and also the Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management program. Hilton received his baccalaureate degree from Morehouse College, graduating cum laude in the Business Administration program.

Hilton has published his research in several refereed journals including, The Journal of Research in Education, The Journal of African American Males in Education, Teachers College Record, and The Journal of College Student Development. He also serves on several editorial boards: The Journal of the International Association for the Study of the Global Achievement Gap; section editor for education policy for the Journal of African American Males in Education; and, he is a member of the young scholars editorial board for the Journal of Negro Education.

Dr. Hilton has received numerous recognitions in his young career, including the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Student award for his doctoral dissertation; the 2010 Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Exemplary Scholarship from the American Educational Research Association, Multicultural/Multiethnic Special Interest Group; and the 2009 Outstanding Research Award from the American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Men; as well as being featured as one of Ebony Magazine’s “2009 Young Leaders Under 30.”