Sharing our Story: 50 Years of Impact
To showcase the center's leadership in the evaluation field, Evaluation Center staff contributed a week of blogs to the American Evaluation Association's AEA 365 platform:
- Supporting open-access evaluation scholarship through JMDE
- Evaluation Café: Four decades of learning and growth
- Developing evaluation elearning: Our journey and lessons learned
- Scholarship can support evaluation success
- In defense of checklists: More than checking a box
- Celebrating The Evaluation Center’s 50 years at Western Michigan University
- Managing student-evaluator anxiety and interpersonal communication
Our social media campaign revisited archived news stories, highlighting milestones in the center's history at WMU.
A Gathering to Celebrate 50 Years
On September 14, 2023, we hosted a special reception at WMU’s Heritage Hall to celebrate The Evaluation Center’s 50th anniversary. Community members, partners, and campus colleagues came together to honor this milestone and reflect on five decades of advancing evaluation from our home base at WMU. The event featured inspiring speeches by WMU President Edward Montgomery, Vice President of Research and Innovation Remzi Seker, and Evaluation Center Executive Director Lori Wingate, which you can view below. This gathering offered a meaningful opportunity to connect, celebrate, and look ahead to the future of our work.
