The Western Years
The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University appreciates the administrators of The Evaluation Center.
Leadership
Carl Candoli
Candoli has been a friend to The Evaluation Center ever since the 1960s when he and Stufflebeam were both professors at Ohio State. After Candoli left Ohio State to engage in a succession of superintendencies, he continued to collaborate with the center, often in helping develop evaluation in the districts he headed. Since he retired from the superintendency, he has been a frequent consultant to the center and has contributed substantially to a number of the center's projects and major publications. Candoli is a master of the politics of educational administration and knows better than most how to use evaluation in the process of administering schools.
Vincent Greaney
Greaney came to The Evaluation Center as a Fulbright Scholar from Ireland’s prestigious Educational Research Centre. He brought an international perspective that enriched intellectual exchange at the center. Greaney assisted with the conduct of the Joint Committee’s program evaluation standards project and drafted a set of principles and bylaws to serve as a foundation for the committee's incorporation. Greaney is a senior education specialist at The World Bank and continues to be a strong and supportive colleague of the center.
Arlen Gullickson
Gullickson did postdoctoral work under Wayne Welch at the University of Minnesota. Welch spoke highly of him to Dan Stufflebeam, who subsequently recruited him to join the center as chief of staff. Gullickson has helped raise the center to a new level, especially in its ability to deal effectively with school districts. He has been an important national figure in starting and serving as the first president of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness. He has published high quality materials, which are having an impact throughout the country, and established the center's presence on the Internet.
Jerry Horn
Shortly after Gullickson arrived at the center, he advised Stufflebeam to recruit Horn. They succeeded in doing so and since that time Horn has become a well-known representative of the center throughout Michigan, Ohio and other places. He is a master planner and administrator of projects and a creative and capable methodologist. His contributions include work in a variety of areas, such as community development, teacher education, environmental education, personnel evaluation systems and charter schools. He has developed the best relationship the center has ever had with Michigan's Department of Education.
Richard Jaeger
Jaeger has contributed substantially to the work of the center through his involvement in a number of projects, including a project to help the U.S. Marine Corps assess and develop a new personnel evaluation system, a project to evaluate the National Assessment Governing Board's attempt to set achievement levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and a project to develop a report card for school evaluation. Among his many honors is the Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement from the National Council on Measurement in Education. Jaeger was NationsBank Professor of Educational Research Methodology and recently retired as director of the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is one of the giants in the field of educational and psychological measurement.
Conrad Katzenmeyer
Katzenmeyer's relationship with the center began when he was head of research and sponsored programs for Western Michigan University. After leaving WMU, he continued to assist and support the center by helping the center obtain a number of grants and contracts from federal sources. He has been an invaluable project officer for several of the center's projects, including the Sanders and Stufflebeam study of the effects of the 1977 energy crisis on the functioning of Columbus Public Schools, the Standards project and the CREATE project. Katzenmeyer has been a champion of the CIPP model and has helped people understand how to apply it.
George Madaus
Madaus served on the first national Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. He collaborated with Michael Scriven and Stufflebeam on the Evaluation Models book. With Stufflebeam, he coedits the Kluwer Academic Publishers' series of books on evaluation in education, health and human services. Madaus is a valued colleague with deep knowledge in the area of educational measurement and its relationship to evaluation.
Jason "Jay" Millman
Millman and Stufflebeam had adjoining seats at a 1965 postdoctoral summer institute on statistics and experimental design at the University of Wisconsin and became friends and colleagues. Millman participated substantially in a number of The Evaluation Center's projects and served on the CREATE National Advisory Panel. He masterfully led the development of a CD-ROM containing many of CREATE's contributions. Millman also ably assisted the center's superintendent evaluation project, which culminated in the book, Superintendent Evaluation.
David Nevo
Nevo came from Israel to study at Ohio State University. He was an outstanding student and an avid learner of evaluation. He followed The Evaluation Center when it moved to Western Michigan University, where he finished his OSU Ph.D. He was an active participant in the CREATE projects of the WMU Evaluation Center. Nevo is chair of the research department at Tel Aviv University. He has many distinguished publications to his credit and is editor of the international journal Studies in Educational Evaluation.
Jeri (Ridings) Nowakowski
Nowakowski was a doctoral student in educational leadership at Western Michigan University. She worked as a research associate at The Evaluation Center, assisting with the early work of the national Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. She subsequently took a faculty position at Northern Illinois University and from that position was recruited to be the director of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, where she was an outstanding leader. She has since been named senior vice president of curriculum development and evaluation at Voyager Expanded Learning.
Robert Rodosky
As a staff member of the Columbus Public Schools, Rodosky greatly assisted James Sanders and Stufflebeam when they evaluated the impact of the 1977 energy crisis on the Columbus school district for the National Science Foundation. Subsequently, Stufflebeam recruited Rodosky to serve as the center's assistant director for administration. He served with distinction, helping the center grow and organize and conducting some important evaluation service projects for Michigan. Rodosky is the executive director of accountability in research and planning for the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky.
James Sanders
Sanders was an evaluator for the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory when Stufflebeam recruited him to come to the center in 1975 to assist in its development. He became associate director and followed Stufflebeam as chair of the national Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. Sanders has been extremely effective in working with foundations and community-based organizations. With Blain Worthen, he continues to publish one of the best-selling textbooks in the field of evaluation.
Michael Scriven
Scriven began as a critic of the center. He strongly criticized the original version of the CIPP model, saying that it focused too much on future decision making and not enough on accountability. AERA found the Scriven-Stufflebeam exchanges interesting and put them on the road with a traveling debate in the early 1970s. Through that experience they found that they agreed more than they disagreed and that their different approaches reflected their very different experiences. Scriven has been a positive force for The Evaluation Center.
Anthony Shinkfield
Shinkfield was a brilliant student in educational leadership at Western Michigan University in the late 1970s. As a research associate in The Evaluation Center, he was extremely helpful in developing the first Standards book, synthesizing the writing of multiple authors. Shinkfield has maintained a strong relationship with the center, serving on the CREATE National Advisory Panel, serving as keynote speaker at a national conference and coauthoring a number of books and other publications with Stufflebeam. He exemplified the use of evaluation in administration when for 14 years he served as headmaster of the prestigious St. Peter’s College in Adelaide, Australia.
Sally Veeder
Upon establishing the center at Western Michigan University, Stufflebeam recruited Veeder to work with him in the development of the center and in the definition and maintenance of high standards for center products. She took on an increasing amount of authority and responsibility, and Stufflebeam appointed her assistant director. Veeder received the University’s prestigious Staff Service Award for outstanding support service in 1997. She personally reviewed all of the center's outgoing products to ensure they met her high standards of product quality.
Wayne Welch
Welch has been a friend of The Evaluation Center for a long time. He has served as advisor and consultant to many of the center's projects, including the development of the evaluation standards, the teacher certification evaluation shell and the evaluation of the Metaevaluation-Training-Support project. He assisted the center in recruiting Gullickson and has been a supporter and mentor to Gullickson in his various projects. Welch has been an active evaluator, conducting more than 60 studies, particularly in the science education and philanthropic foundation areas. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota.
William Wiersma
Wiersma was at the University of Toledo when Stufflebeam was at Ohio State. They became colleagues and when Wiersma retired Stufflebeam engaged him to be an adjunct staff member of The Evaluation Center at WMU. He has done an outstanding job in several capacities, especially as the external evaluator for the Appalachia Regional Educational Laboratory. He excels at applying professional standards to the judgment of evaluations done by that lab and other groups. Wiersma is a valuable and influential member of The Evaluation Center's team.
Lori Wingate
Wingate joined The Evaluation Center in 1997. She brought substantial training and experience in the areas of sociology and personnel evaluation. She devoted her talents to helping the center with many of its responsibilities. These especially included program evaluation work, editing and writing, assisting with the design of the University-wide interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, and rejuvenating the center's Sack Lunch Seminar series. She has excelled in conducting the milestone project to establish The Evaluation Center's Wall of Honor.