Thomas H. Anderson
Professor of Educational Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Native Virginian raised in Richmond

Undergraduate study: Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH

Physicist in underwater acoustics for Navy Dept

High school teacher of science and math

Graduate study: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Director of Project Upward Bound, Arkansas Polytechnic College, Russellville

Director of University Testing Office, Indiana State University

Senior researcher and co-director of Center For the Study of Reading, UIUC

Director of and an instructor in an online masters degree program, CTER (Curriculum, Technology and Educational Reform), at UIUC

Graduate instructor in the areas of: psychology of classroom learning, psychology of social adjustment, statistics and research design, classroom management, conflict and conflict resolution, and computer uses in schools.

Mediator with Champaign County Court Diversion Services - VORP (Victim Offender Reconciliation Program)

Lanny Arvan is a faculty member in the Economics department and the main administrator in CITES charged with a focus on learning technologies. Lanny is an executive sponsor of the Illinois Compass project, which is in the process of moving the Urbana campus from supporting many diverse learning systems (Campus Gradebook, Blackboard, etc.) to a single enterprise system. Lanny also serves as an ambassador for ed tech between the various campus units and CITES. Lanny's principal interest at present is in finding sustainable technology support models in light of the tight budget environment in which we work.

Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UIS from 1988-2004. During that time, online baccalaureate degrees in Liberal Studies, English, History, Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy were developed by the college.

At UIS, Boltuc spearheads one of the first degree programs in philosophy offered entirely online. A member of a number of editorial boards, including e-Mentor and H-Net List for Online Education in the Humanities, he is also a visiting strategic consultant in online education at the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland and a member of the Philosophy and Computers Committee of the American Philosophical Association.  He formerly served as the PI of the UIS' Community Outreach Partnership Center grant from HUD. Boltuc specializes in Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and in e-Education.

Dr. Brooks has extensive experience teaching graduate students using multi-site videoconferencing, as well as online and blended courses. In the past Dr. Brooks has facilitated 45 students in one course dispersed across five remote sites. This experience has led to the creation of a number of tips and tricks to enhance teaching, but more importantly to enhance learning. Dr. Brooks currently serves as the Associate Dean for Educational Outreach and in this role works to reach out to employer partners to offer the college's courses at various work sites, as well as work with faculty on developing their teaching skills. Dr. Brooks is the co-director on a large federal grant which is providing employees access to learning opportunities at work vie online and distance modalities.

Mary M. Case is University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Prior to joining UIC on July 1, 2004, Ms. Case was Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).  At ARL, Ms. Case was responsible for guiding the activities of the association related to the production, dissemination, use, and preservation of scholarly information.  Ms. Case coordinated programs and workshops on the licensing of electronic resources, helped in the development of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), coordinated national conferences and roundtables on issues in scholarly communication, and helped plan a national conference on preservation with the University of Michigan.  Before ARL, Ms. Case was Director of Program Review in the Office of the Vice President for Administration and Planning at Northwestern University.  Prior to that, she spent ten years at Northwestern University Library, where she worked in serials and acquisitions.

I was convener of the History Program at the time we decided to offer an online completion degree for the bachelor of arts. We now are in our second year of implementing the online major. This semester I am teaching my second online course. I also am in the process of developing, with a colleague in the department, the capstone course that will be required of all history majors and that will be delivered both online and on campus. My particular areas of interest in history are U.S. foreign relations, especially the Cold War, and 20th century America.

Jan teaches in the Liberal Studies Program, which was a pioneer online program at UIS. She has developed 3 online classes and has presented at numerous online conferences. She is interested in the affective domain and techniques for effective electronic advising. While on sabbatical in 2003-4, she worked with University of Botswana (southern Africa) colleagues on "elearning" issues and set up a virtual exchange between UMSL colleagues and grade school children in Botswana. She is also interested in the use of online methodologies to facilitate global education. Jan teaches in the Individual Option program, Women's and International Studies, and will take her second group of students to Jamaica for a 3-week service learning course.

Charles Evans presently serves as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of University Outreach and Public Service for the University of Illinois. A primary responsibility within the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs is to represent and support the three campuses of the University of Illinois in their relationship with the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) in academic matters.  Additionally, he coordinates a variety of educational, service and distance learning activities for the three campuses of the University of Illinois.  University Outreach and Public Service, through a professional support network that includes regional offices statewide and multi-university center efforts, assists the University as it responds to the unique needs of Illinois’ citizen and corporate communities for knowledge, research and service.  His research interests include the learning support needs of adult college students and effective collaboration among post-secondary institutions.  He began his career teaching at junior high and secondary schools in East St. Louis and has taught for Parkland College, the University of Missouri and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Prior to his work with the University of Illinois, Charles served as counselor and center director for Parkland College and Dean of the College for Springfield College in Illinois.  Dr. Evans has a broad understanding of Illinois’ educational system and the varied needs to which it is expected to respond.

Adam holds a Masters of Education from the University of Illinois in Human Resource Development where he specialized in Educational Technologies. He received his B.A. in 1998 from the University of Illinois in Speech Communication. Mr. Fein's work history prior to his work for HRE Online includes three years for the Quaker Oats Company in their Training and Development Division. At Quaker he focused on employee computer and web-based training techniques. He also has performed as an independent consultant to companies such as Gatorade and Illinois Power in the areas of Procedural Knowledge, Identification Assessment and Change Management. Co-author of a chapter entitled "Preparing Instructors for Online Instruction" for "New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education: Facilitating Learning in Online Environments." he recently served on the 2004 planning committee for the First Annual Retreat on Online Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was asked to Chair the Online and Distance Learning Committee at the College of Education for 2005.

Judith Flink has been at the University for 20 years and is the Executive Director of University Student Financial Services and Cashier Operations.   She is responsible for Receivables, Loan Management, Collection Operations, Cashiers, and A/R Systems Office.  In addition to her responsibilities at the University, Judith is the Vice Chairperson of the Federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance,  she serves on the Steering Committee for the Post-secondary Education Standards Council (PESC) and the Governors Committee on Special Education (ISAC).   She is also a member of COHEAO, the Coalition of Higher Education Assistance Organizations, and served as the president of the organization for four years.  Judith has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences and is active in several professional organizations. Judith has also testified before Congress on a number of occasions and participated in negotiated rule making and focus groups with the Department of Education.

Nancy Ford is the Director of the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at UIS and a Professor in the Legal Studies Department. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the Institute for Public Affairs for nine years, as Director of the Center for Legal Studies, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Ford joined the University of Illinois at Springfield August of 1979. She holds a J.D. from Temple University School of Law and a B.A. degree in English and Education from Indiana University, Bloomington. As a faculty member in the Legal Studies Department, she has taught a variety of courses such as: Graduate Introductory Seminar; Family Law; Legal Research; Legal Writing, and Analysis; Seminar on Legal Environment; Legal Institutions and Processes; Administrative Law; Advanced Legal Research; Women and the Law; and Legal Ethics. She regularly teaches Family Law online. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project. She held an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Department of Medical Humanities at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine where she taught a seminar on the Legal Aspects of OB/GYN. Ford has made numerous presentations and conducted numerous training programs on a variety of law-related topics. She has thirty years of success in obtaining grants and contracts as a result of competitive proposal submissions. Ford has published articles, chapters in books, booklets, and training manuals on abortion policy, the reproductive technologies, other family law issues, AIDS/HIV policy, the Illinois judicial system, and other public policy related issues. She has conducted funded evaluations of domestic violence programs and several of Illinois' mandatory arbitration programs.

Rassule Hadidi is a professor and chair of the Management Information Systems department at the College of Business and Management at UIS. He teaches courses in electronic commerce and data communications. His research interests are in the above areas as well as online instruction and its comparison with the face-to-face instruction. He is interested in finding ways to utilize tools and technologies used in various modes of course development and delivery to improve the overall teaching and learning. He offered the first fully online course from UIS in the fall of 1997 for UIS and UIC students and directed the initial (1998-2000) development of the first fully online graduate level degree program (in MIS) from UIS. He has taught 25 sections of fully online undergraduate and graduate level MIS courses since 1997. Currently, he uses Blackboard and Elluminate live platforms for his asynchronous and synchronous course development and delivery. His latest publication (co-authored with Chung-Hsien Sung and Miles D. Woken of UIS) about online instruction appeared in the Communications of the International Information Management Association in October 2004. He is currently serving on the editorial board of four academic journals. Hadidi received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (1981) degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed AACSB sponsored post doctoral studies at Indiana University in 1988.

Helped the department of Computer Science establish an online program and has been directing that program since. Has been involved with College of Engineering online program efforts.

Jeff is the Director of Marketing for U of I Online. Jeff created and implemented the comprehensive, integrated marketing plan for U of I Online and consults with the online programs across the three campuses. Jeff focuses on web marketing because of the cost effectiveness and ability to track the impact of marketing initiatives. His presentations include a workshop at the 2004 Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. His work with individual programs includes market research and analysis, development of marketing plans, web and print design, and evaluation of potential and past marketing initiatives.

Kristen is a Senior Program Coordinator in UIC's Office of External Education where her main role is to support online education in many capacities, from working with existing campus units to support online students, to working with the colleges in program development, to implementing the new eTuition. In her role as the External Communications coordinator, Kristen also supports marketing efforts to promote UIC's online programs and finds solutions using the web combined with databases that provide easy-to-use, searchable tools for potential students. Kristen is currently leading the Student Services Working Group for the Blended Initiative at UIC. In that role, she is also leading the development of an "Introduction to Online Learning" course that will be modular and available to all UIC students.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Coordinator for Information Library Services and Instruction and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught instruction courses at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, both in-person and online (LEEP), and in a previous position at Parkland College worked closely with faculty developing online programs. Lisa is the Editor of the journal Research Strategies and author of the Neal-Schuman Electronic Classroom Handbook. At UIUC she is responsible for coordinating the Library's outreach and connections with campus curricula for improved student learning through internal and external partnerships and initiatives.

Joseph Hoereth is the Associate Director of the Great Cities Institute (GCI).  He is also the interim director of the GCI’s Professional Education program, which runs the Certificate of Non-profit Management (CNM) online program, and develops custom courses and trainings for both university and community partners.  An urban planner by training, Dr. Hoereth’s research interests lie in affordable housing, community economic development, and building the capacity of non-profit organizations. Prior to joining GCI in 2004, Joseph worked as a consultant to non-profits and foundations, a research coordinator at Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL), and as an urban planning consultant.

Clark Hulse is Dean of the Graduate College, Executive Vice Provost, and Professor of English and Art History, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His area of responsibility includes graduate, professional and interdisciplinary education, including continuing and online programs.  In 1998 Hulse was part of the inaugural speaker series for the UI-Online Forum, and has written articles and given workshops on teaching the humanities in a mediated environment.  For the Newberry Library in Chicago he curated the exhibition Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend, which won the 2005 Leab Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries for outstanding electronic exhibit.  Hulse has held research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (Newberry Library), and the British Academy.  He has published four books and numerous articles in the areas of Renaissance literature and visual culture.  Hulse received his B.A. degree from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Claremont Graduate University.

Kathy is a Regional Program Director with University Outreach and Public Service (UOPS). She was hired eight years ago to develop the Lake County Multi-University Center, now the University Center of Lake County. Her region covers Chicago and the northern suburbs with an office in Lincolnshire. She is part of the UOPS team that answers all U of I Online initial inquiries and provides pre-admissions advising to prospective U of I Online students, where appropriate. She has worked with UIS to help develop 2+2 programs with community colleges, and with all three campuses to promote online programs through a variety of media and to support online students in U of I programs in her region (exam proctoring, involvement in University Center boards, awards for online faculty). Her prior work history includes over ten years working for a consulting company providing education advising to employees of corporations such as Abbott, Ameritech, Motorola, AT&T, and Verizon. She gained particular expertise in working with adult learners, and is quite familiar with distance learning programs across the country as a result of the advising she provided. She received her B.A. in Economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her M.A. in Labor & Industrial Relations, also from UIUC.

Ahmed Kassem is the Vice Provost for Information Technology and Director, Academic Computer and Communications Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He has overall responsibility for the UIC central computing facilities, telephones, communications, network, networking services and academic computing. His organizations spend about $17 million annually and employ 150 full-time employees and 100 part-time students. Dr. Kassem works closely with faculty and administrators to frame and guide distributed information technology activities, and to insure that the University makes optimal use of these technologies in a cost-effective manner in its education, research and service endeavors. As the VP for IT, he represents UIC locally, nationally and internationally through organizations such as the Seminar of Academic Computing, EDUCAUSE, Internet2/UCAID, and MREN.

Paula Kaufman moved to her current position as University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September 1999 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she had been Dean of Libraries since 1988. Prior to taking that position she served at the Columbia University Libraries as Acting Vice President, Director of Academic Information Services, Director of Library Services, Acting Head of the East Asia Libraries, and Head of the Business Library. She also has considerable experience in the private sector, at McKinsey and Company and as partner and co-founder of Information for Business. Ms. Kaufman has written and made presentations on a number of issues pertaining to scholarly information, privacy, copyright, research libraries, recruitment, and leadership.  Ms. Kaufman has served the profession with board memberships in the Center for Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Illinois Computer Services Organization, the Research Libraries Group, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and Solinet. She has served on numerous university committees at both the University of Illinois and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

As then chair of the English Program, in 2000, I had the pleasure of helping to design the UIS Online English Degree. I enjoy teaching writing online: ENG 470 Creative Writing Poetry and ENG 375 Expository Writing Style. In the Center for Teaching and Learning, I also assist tutor students and faculty with writing revision online. My primary teaching tool is Blackboard, using audio and video links.

Veronica Lewis is currently Director of the Specialist in Blood Bank (SBB) Technology Certificate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The SBB program has been fully online since Fall 2003 and was developed to meet the needs of experienced, post-baccalaureate professionals seeking advanced understanding of blood bank technology. The program fulfills requirements for eligibility to take the SBB certification examination given by the American Society of Clinical Pathology Board of Registry. Ms. Lewis has over thirty years of experience in medical laboratory sciences and the education of medical laboratory scientists.

Faye L. Lesht is Head of the Division of Academic Outreach in the Office of Continuing Education at UIUC and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership in UIUC's College of Education.  Academic Outreach is responsible for administrative oversight and support of off-campus (including online) courses, certificate and degree programs.  This includes 9 online degree programs, over a dozen online certificate programs as well as online undergraduate courses offered through guided individual study.  She recently co-authored a book chapter on online program evaluation with Rae Anne Montague, Vaughn Page, Najmuddin Shaik and Linda C. Smith and has given guest lectures in online courses at Parkland College.  Faye has served in her current position for the past 4 years.  Faye teaches a course on academic leadership for UIUC's College of Education; her research interests include factors influencing retention in online degree programs and emerging services for students in distance education programs.

Daniel Matthews earned his Ph.D. from UIUC and is currently chair and an associate professor in the Educational Leadership Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. During his tenure as chair, the online Master Teaching and Leadership (MTL) concentration has grown substantially and has evolved into a new and distinct degree, the Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership. He has been teaching online since 1999 when he offered a hybrid, internet-intensive reading methods course for pre-service teachers that was taught two-thirds online and one-third on campus. He developed the totally online introductory research methods course for the Educational Leadership Program and also teaches the online capstone course for the Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership degree. His current research interests include investigating the potential of online education to meet traditional educational values.

I was previously employed as the Online Program Coordinator for the Liberal Studies Program at UIS; most recently my role has expanded to that of Director of Online Programming for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences where I continue to support Web-based program development through recruitment, outreach, and other capacity-building and academic support activities. I have previously taught at both the undergraduate level (in a variety of programs focusing on non-traditional learning) and at the graduate level (in the curricular areas of instructional design, training and performance improvement, and adult education) in both media-based and on-ground learning environments. Most recently, I am teaching undergraduate and graduate assessment courses in the areas of business and technology, and education. My areas of interest include adult and post-secondary education, outreach and program development/administration, and media-based instructional delivery. My most recent publication is a chapter entitled "Community in Virtual Learning Environments" which will be published as part of Kent State University's "Encyclopedia of Support Services and Distant Education," due out this summer. My most recent conference paper, titled "Providing Student Support Services to Distant Students: Development, Scalability, and Lessons Learned" will be presented at several conferences this spring.

Shari McCurdy is the associate director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning and an Adjunct Professor of Educational Leadership for the University of Illinois at Springfield. She created, developed and currently teaches fully online graduate courses in educational technology. McCurdy directs grant projects that examine the assessment of learning outcomes and the use of synchronous technologies in online learning. She has presented at numerous technology conferences on topics ranging from best practices in online learning to plagiarism in the electronic classroom.

Edward Mensah is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and the director of the online public health informatics program. Professor Mensah played a leading role in the development of the only online program in public health informatics in the country. He teaches courses in health information management and health economics. Professor Mensah received his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University of Science and Technology and post doctoral training at the University of Chicago. His areas of research include health technology assessment and health services evaluation.

I teach and research in software engineering and computer ethics. My BS is in education, and my Ph.D. is in computer science. Maybe that helps explain why I've become so interested in online teaching. Currently we teach online using Blackboard, but in the past I've taught using interactive video over phone lines, and as a grad student I did some work looking at using AI methods to help teach technical methods in computer science. I'm convinced that it's more important to have reliable tools than to have fancy tools for online teaching. Many problems students have online have to do with their organization of ideas and content, not with any technical problems with the Internet. The organization of learning details are more important in online teaching than in face-to-face teaching because once a student gets off the track in an online class, it may be harder to reel them back in. I've always been adept at sensing students' confusion in a face-to-face class; I've started to learn how to sense confusion electronically. I'm looking forward to learning more at the Urbana meeting, and I'm grateful that I was invited.

Rae-Anne Montague is Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served on several working groups concerned with educational policy at UIUC and given papers and presentations about online education in many venues. She maintains a bibliography about the GSLIS online option, LEEP (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/degrees/leep_bib.html). Her research interests include effective practice in online education and diversity. Rae-Anne received her MS in Library and Information Science via LEEP, and also holds an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction from St. Mary's University in Halifax, Canada. She is a doctoral candidate currently writing her dissertation on graduate student experiences in online education.

Mary P. Niemiec is Executive Director of External Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Overseeing instructional outreach for UIC, Ms. Niemiec directs the efforts of the campus-wide instructional outreach units - Office of External Education, Office of Continuing Education, Tutorium in Intensive English and Summer Session. Primary responsibilities include oversight for distance education, professional development programs and credit non-degree offerings at UIC. In addition to chairing the UIC Online Oversight Committee, Ms. Niemiec also represents UIC on numerous university system, state and national committees. Most recently, Ms. Niemiec has undertaken leadership of a committee identifying and developing policies, procedures and support infrastructure for a Blended Course Initiative at UIC.

Burks Oakley II is an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois and serves as the director of the University of Illinois Online initiative. He holds an academic appointment as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on the Urbana campus, and courtesy appointments on both the Chicago and Springfield campuses. Oakley has been the PI or co-PI on over $10 million in grants (including matching funds) to the University of Illinois in support of online educational initiatives. He regularly teaches an online class for the Springfield campus. Oakley received his B.S. degree from Northwestern University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and for his innovative use of technology in education, including the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from UIUC in 1993, the Outstanding Teacher Award from the ASEE in 1993, the Educom Medal in 1996, the Major Educational Innovation Award from the IEEE in 1996, and the Sloan-C Award for the "Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching and Learning by an Individual" in 2003.

Mark has worked on two large-scale blended projects in language. First, at UIUC, he was on the team that developed the Spanish Project in 1999-2000. Now he is directing a similar project at UIC. His research area is Second Language Acquisition, and he focuses on the application of attention to second language reading tasks. He also is interested in the acquisition of tense and aspect.

Dr. Allan Paul serves as Associate Dean for Public Engagement at the College of Veterinary Medicine and is one of the course authors for their Veterinary Education Online (VEO) program.  VEO was developed and managed by the Office of Public Engagement at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. VEO's mission is to provide high-quality, university-level continuing education courseware to veterinarians and licensed, certified or registered veterinary technicians nationwide. Course modules are designed to enhance knowledge and increase clinical skills as well as provide continuing education credit required by some state regulatory boards. The Office of Public Engagement at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois grants continuing education credit upon successful completion of courseware assessment. VEO was made possible through grants from the University of Illinois Online and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Professor Regalbuto spearheaded the 1998-99 all-U. of Illinois study "Teaching at an Internet Distance: The Pedagogy of Online Teaching and Learning." Sponsored by the VPAA, the report attracted much attention in the press and through invited lectures, the highlight of which was a keynote panel on education at the "Internet & Society 2k" conference at Harvard. Professor Regalbuto continues to be on the UIC Online Oversight Committee and is about to begin a three year term as chair of UIC's Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). A main item on CETL's agenda will be blended learning.

Norma Scagnoli has been the Program Coordinator for the Curriculum Technology and Education Reform (CTER) Online Masters program since Fall 2001. Previously she worked as Resource Manager for the Web Technology Group, in the Office of Continuing Education. She has been involved in research on distance education and online learning since 1998. She has given papers and presentations about online education in local and international settings. Her research interests include online learning, and instructional design. Norma holds a M.Ed. from the UIUC, and is a doctoral candidate in the department of Human Resource Education also at UIUC.

David Schejbal is associate vice chancellor and director of the Office of Continuing Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Within his portfolio are off-campus credit courses and programs, including online programs; conferences and institutes, Robert Allerton Park and Conference Center, and programs in Chicago. In Chicago, David has overseen the development of an array of adult-oriented and corporate-facing programs to help expand the resources of the Urbana campus into the Chicago area, with an emphasis on environmentally-related programs. Most recently he has been working on a professional development program in sustainable architecture and sustainable design. Courses in this program are delivered in both online and face-to-face formats.  David has been at the University of Illinois for five years. Prior to that he was Associate Dean of University College at Northwestern University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Connecticut, and his research interests include a focus on the evolving relationships between people and nature.

Francis Schlemmer is a member of the Information Technology and Educational Policy Committees of the College of Pharmacy. We are presently considering the incorporation of laptops or tablet PCs into the curriculum. Online courses and material would be an important component of this transition. The College of Pharmacy has offered several online courses over the past 5 years including a 7 week online certificate program for pharmacists on antithrombosis therapy management. Fran is a member of the pharmacy faculty who received a Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award that will be used to implement a student response system as a learning tool in pharmacy classes. In his research life, Fran is a behavioral pharmacologist who primarily studies the action of psychotherapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse on nonhuman primate social behavior.

Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and Faculty Associate at the University of Illinois Online. He has taught more than two dozen online classes. As Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning he is dedicated to faculty development and pedagogical support of the online initiative. As Faculty Associate, Schroeder is engaged in the formation of online learning policy for the University of Illinois. He is a Sloan Consortium Distinguished Scholar in Online Learning 2002-2003 and the recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the "Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual."

Linda C. Smith is Professor and Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1977. She oversees GSLIS academic programs, including LEEP, the online option of the MS and CAS degrees. She has been teaching online since 1997 and regularly teaches reference and science reference. Her research interests include information system design, education for library and information science, the impact of new technologies on reference and information services, and online pedagogy. She coauthored "Teaching Online: Changing Models of Teaching and Learning in LEEP" with Sarai Lastra and Jennifer Robins in Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42(4):348-363, Fall 2001 and contributed a chapter on "Faculty Perspectives" with Rae-Anne Montague to Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice (Peter Lang, 2004).

Chung-Hsien Sung teaches in the Mathematical Sciences Program at UIS, which offers its baccalaureate degree online.  He teaches courses in Statistics and Operations Research.  His research interests are in Statistical Models as well as comparison of online and traditional education.  He has developed and taught 5 online courses since the Spring 2001 semester.  He is teaching 3 online courses this semester.

Mo-Yin S. Tam is a Professor of Economics and an Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is the PI of a recent (2000-2002) NSF grant on digital divide. Her recent research interests include return to postsecondary education, digital divide, gender gap in information technology and impacts of student body diversity on student academic performance. She was the PI and project director of an online program development grant from the Office of U of I Online (2000-02). She helped organize the development of the online MBA core courses in the College of Business Administration (CBA) at UIC. She also team taught an online Economics course in the CBA MBA programs.

Bruce Vojak is Associate Dean for External Affairs in the College of Engineering, where he is responsible for non-philanthropic interactions with industry. The Office of Continuing Engineering Education (which annually offers ~40 online courses, 11 certificates and two degrees) reports to him through Laura Miller, the Director of the Engineering and Computer Science Online Program. Additionally, he has taught the course entitled "Managing Advanced Technology in Industry" online every term since Spring 2003. He brings an industry perspective to his roles, having served as Director of Advanced Technology for Motorola's frequency generation products business prior to joining the University in 1999. Dr. Vojak received BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Richard Wheeler received his Ph.D. in English from the State University in Buffalo in 1970. He joined the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1969 and has been on the Illinois faculty since. From 1987 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of English, and in 1999-2000 he was Acting Head of the Department of Anthropology. He became Dean of the Graduate College in 2000. He is chair of the CIC Graduate Deans, the executive committee of the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools, and the CGS Finance Committee. The Graduate College Committee on Extended Education and External Degrees (CEEED) has oversight for review of off-campus degree programs.  These programs are typically reviewed on a five-year cycle.

Dr. York directs a number of offices at the College of Medicine that support curricula throughout the school, including testing, course evaluation, the clinical performance center, and distance education. He is also project director for the UIC Online GME Core Curriculum, a program that provides online workshops to 3,500 medical residents at 26 institutions nation-wide. The Core Curriculum won the Sloan-C award for outstanding asynchronous learning program in 2002. Dr. York holds a doctorate in Public Policy Analysis in the College of Education at UIC, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.