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Editorial Board
(October 2010- June 2014)
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Flor Ivonne Chirino-Klevans, Ph.D.
HETS Online Journal Chief Editor
Director, International + Distance Education Alliances (I+DEA)
Dr. Ivonne Chirino-Klevans was the Program Director at the Center for International Programs at Walden University. Before her appointment as Program Director she was Faculty Chair for the Organizational Psychology PhD program at Walden.
Dr. Chirino-Klevans also served as the Program Director for Duke Corporate Education, ranked number one in the world in executive education by the Financial Times. Prior to this, she was the Assistant Dean for Executive Education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Chirino-Klevans has expertise in Global Executive Education Program Design, International Client Management, and the use of technology to design online learning across cultures.
Dr. Chirino-Klevans received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Universidad Iberoamericana, and also holds an MBA from Universidad de las Américas, and a Masters in Psychology from Georgia College and State University. Earlier in her career, she also served as the psychologist for the Mexican national rowing team, and contributed to the team winning a silver medal at the 1991 Pan Am Games. She herself is a Pan American games medalist in gymnastics and national champion in Gymnastics.
Contact info:
E-mail: ivonne@nc.rr.com
Dr. Naydeen González De Jesús
Vice President, Student Affairs
Bergen Community College
Over 14 years of experience in higher education administration at the community college level, emphasis on student affairs, minority student engagement and completion, labor relations, industrial/organizational management, mentoring women leaders, online teaching and learning, and curriculum development.
Howard Wach, Ph. D.
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Dr. Howard Wach joined LaGuardia Community College during academic year 2012-2013. Before that, he entered Bronx Community College as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History in 1998. He first taught online in 1999. He has directed faculty development programs for online teaching at BCC since 2003, and he has published and presented both in history and in academic technology.
In 2008 Dr. Wach was appointed to the newly created position of Director of Instructional Technology, where he supervises programs in faculty development, curricular innovation, electronic student portfolios, and infrastructure improvement. Currently, he is acting as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and also is the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College.
Contact Info:
Address: LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Ave., M 414, Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: 718-482-5478
Email: hwach@lgcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Robert Whittaker
Professor, Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President,
Office of Undergraduate Studies and Online Education
Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Robert Whittaker is a Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Lehman College, CUNY, where he serves as Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Online Education. He came to Lehman in 1971, where he has taught not only Russian but also Soviet politics and Russian history. He has studied in Russia and regularly visits Moscow and St. Petersburg to conduct research on American-Russian cultural relations.
Most recently he has been studying and writing on the nearly two thousand letters written by Americans to the novelist Leo Tolstoy and Tolstoy’s letters to Americans. At Lehman Professor Whittaker coordinates the General Education program and directs the College’s online learning programs. Professor Whittaker was also instrumental in designing the new CUNY Online Baccalaureate program.
His current focus is on developing Lehman’s Multimedia Center as a platform for expanding mediated learning and on the shared goals and objectives of the College’s broad variety of undergraduate programs.
Contact info:
Phone: (718) 960-7806
E-mail: robert.whittaker@lehman.cuny.edu
Pamela A. Krauser Vargas
Executive Director, Research Center,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Ms. Vargas has over 19 years of experience in university research administration. Her responsibilities have included the implementation of electronic research administration systems. She participated in a Department of Energy pilot study on electronic research administration and assisted with the testing of enhancements for the National Science Foundation’s FastLane system. She also served as an Associate Editor for The Journal of Research Administration and is also a member of the Academic Review Committee for The Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities – A Navy Medicine Publication. Ms. Vargas accepted to become the second HOJ Chief Editor on July 2014.
Contact info:
Phone: (484) 646-4340
E-mail: pvargas@kutztown.edu
Alyson Vogel
Associate Director, Online Education
Office of Undergraduate Studies and Online Education, Lehman College, CUNY
Alyson Vogel joined Lehman College in March 2010 as the Associate Director for the Office of Online Education, and is in the process of designing and leading faculty development programs in Hybrid/Blended and fully online learning environments. Before coming to Lehman she worked as a Program Development Specialist for Teachers College, Columbia University where she devoted much of her time to faculty development: course design, curriculum planning, online teaching, training, coaching & mentoring teacher educators.
Her 11-year career in educational programming and directing a US Department of Education grant project in media and technology literacy evolved from two decades working in network radio and television. Her academic interests surround online pedagogy: facilitating online collaboration, the thoughtful integration of online and Web 2.0 tools and inquiry into the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Contact Info:
Address: Office of Undergraduate Studies and Online Education
Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468
E. Gil Clary, Ph.D
Assistant Provost for Faculty & Academic Administration
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Gil Clary was Assistant Provost for Faculty and Academic Administration at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. At Kutztown University, a public institution, he is responsible for facilitating and coordinating assessments of student learning outcomes and institutional effectiveness. Prior to joining the University in 2009, he was a professor of psychology at St. Catherine University in St. Paul Minnesota and actively engaged in research on people’s motivations for performing volunteer work and other questions related to the not-for-profit sector. In addition, Clary spent a year as a social psychology program director at the National Science Foundation in Arlington Virginia.
Contact info:
Phone: 610-683-4229
Email: clary@kutztown.edu
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