About: Lizzie Moser is interested in the impact of second language learning and teaching strategies on learning outcomes. Her primary area of research concerns how second language reading strategies interact with first language and cultural background to affect test performance. She is also interested in teacher education, pedagogical practices in content area instruction that enhance learning, and issues of equity in access to academic content and assessment of English as a second language learners.

Education:

• MA (Education), and PhD (Higher Education),University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
• MS (Mechanical Engineering), Stanford University, 1972
• BS (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 1968

Interest/Awards:

• Annual Recognition Award for Exceptional Contribution to National Valley Education, 2007. Awarded for the advancement of provincial assessment practices.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, Research Council of Canada, 2001 - 2003.

About: Dr. Jacquelin is a developmental psychologist who studies processes of collaborative learning in and out of school. She studies how individuals work together to create joint products and how what is learned and created is related to the quality of their interactions. In a five year NSF supported CAREER award she documented adolescents' learning ecologies (e.g. learning opportunities across home, school, libraries, virtual communities, clubs, camps) for technological fluency development across diverse communities in the Silicon Valley region with the goal of understanding how to design more equitable opportunities for learning. She co-leads the LIFE center (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments), funded by the National Science Foundation in 2005

Education:

• PhD (Clinical and Developmental Psychology), Vanderbilt University, 1992
• MA (Psychology), Vanderbilt University, 1989
• BS (Psychology), University of California at Santa Cruz , 1984

Interest/Awards:

• Community/Youth Development and Organizations
• Equity in the Development of Technological Fluency
• School as a Context of Human Development

About: Professor Kim spent two years after law school reading African law and legal anthropology in London, and then a year of field work in Kenya studying the ways in which primary courts staffed by and serving the African population had preserved indigenous notions of law and procedure within European institutions. He began teaching at Yale in 1969 and spent the 1971-72 year practicing with the Haven Legal Association.

Education:

• B.A. Yale University, 2005
• J.D. Yale Law School, 2008

Interest/Awards:

• Environmental Learning in the San Francisco Bay Area: Networks, Place Connections, Stewardship, and Educational Outcomes (2012–2016; funded by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation)
• Community Conservation: Examining Environmental Behavior as Motivated by Participation in Aquarium Programs (2014–2016; in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium)

About: Steven Lewis is a director in National Valley University. He is also a research associate in the program on education at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Co-Principal Investigator at the “We ARE HERE” Center for Libya Education at National Valley. His research interests include economics of education; student success and completion in college; teacher characteristics and student success in college; effects of voucher programs on both academic and non-academic outcomes. Steven’s research focuses on using rigorous statistical methods in identifying cause-and-effect relationships in higher education

Education:

• Ph.D. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
• B.A. Economics, Brigham Young University, 1996. Magna cum Laude, Honors

Interest/Awards:

• Community/Youth Development and Organizations
• Equity in the Development of Technological Fluency
• School as a Context of Human Development

About: Alfred is a director in National Valley University. He is also a research associate in the program on education at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Co-Principal Investigator at the “We ARE HERE” Center for Libya Education at National Valley. His research interests include economics of education; student success and completion in college; teacher characteristics and student success in college; effects of voucher programs on both academic and non-academic outcomes. Alfred’s research focuses on using rigorous statistical methods in identifying cause-and-effect relationships in higher education

Education:

• Ph.D. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
• B.A. Economics, Brigham Young University, 1996. Magna cum Laude, Honors

Interest/Awards:

• Community/Youth Development and Organizations
• Equity in the Development of Technological Fluency
• School as a Context of Human Development

About: Dr. Mack Crawford experience focuses on global versus local marketing; marketing strategy; innovation and market evolution; brand management; and global customer management. He has been a strong advocate of local marketing by global corporations. His writing and consulting in multinational marketing has focused particularly on brands, and relationships with local sales and distribution units.

Education:

• Doctor of Business Administration Harvard Business School, 1996
• MBA in Marketing City University Business School, London

Interest/Awards:

• Winner, Academy of International Business Case Competition.
• Listed in Who’s Who in America
• Innovation and Market Evolution

About: Trained as a mathematician, Professor Marjorie has worked in computer science for the past 25 years. Her primary focus has been improving the performance of scientific applications on workstations and supercomputers. She is an expert on compilers and computer architecture, including parallel and multi-threaded architectures, and has worked with computational scientists in a variety of disciplines.

Education:

• Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1974.

Interest/Awards:

• She is an IEEE Fellow
• Performance Programming
• Scientific Computation

About: Professor Denise Cain was ranked 41st in the 2013 Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers. His main area of expertise is in the social sciences, and specifically such issues as innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic agility and headquarters-subsidiary relationships.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Business Administration. The University of Western Ontario. 1995.

Interest/Awards:

• Ranked#39 in “Thinkers Fifty” 2013 Performance Programming
• Fellow of the Academy of International Business, 2008

About: Professor Rosa Sullivan was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught Criminal Law, Comparative Family Law, Islamic Law, and a seminar entitled "Nations, Races, and Religion. She worked at the World Bank as legal counsel in the Middle East/North Africa Division, Legal Department. As an elections observer for the United Nations, South Africa, Professor Rosa Sullivan participated in voter education, party monitoring, and election supervision during the period leading to the first democratic elections in South Africa.

Education:

• LL.B., University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
• University of York, England; S.J.D., Harvard.

Interest/Awards:

• University of York, England; S.J.D., Harvard.
• Foreign Law

About: Clyde Linton is an international and award-winning, teacher, facilitator, and researcher Clyde Linton brings over 20 years of experience in leadership roles at online universities; previously serving as Dean of the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria (2002- 2012) and in the Faculty of Management at the University of Lethbridge (1997-2002).

Education:

• Ph.D., M.Sc. (Cardiff University)
• B.Sc. (National University of Iran)

Interest/Awards:

• Organizational Culture and Climate
• Equity in the Development of Technological Fluency
• Cross-Nation Leadership