Office of Institutional Research
Office of Academic Assessment, Evaluation and Achievement
Office of Research & Sponsored Projects
Who We Are
Jodi Cressman
Founding Director
Jodi works with both full-time and
adjunct faculty to assess and strengthen student learning in their courses and to initiate and
sustain the scholarship of teaching and learning. She also serves as associate professor of
English, with a primary scholarly interest in autobiography and teaches in the LAS seminars
program. Before coming to Dominican, Jodi taught American literature and directed the Office for
Teaching, Learning and Assessment at DePaul University. Jodi has published and presented on higher
education topics such as professional development for adjunct faculty, teaching for critical
thinking, faculty theories of learning and increasing student engagement. She has also served as an
assessment mentor for the Higher Learning Commission.
Ken Black
Associate CTLE Director, Teaching and Learning Technologoies
Ken provides support to faculty with the
integration of technology within their pedagogy - whether online or in the classroom. This includes
(but is not limited to) assistance with either of our supported learning management systems (myDU and
Blackboard). Among the other tools currently on campus that Ken provides support for is
Camtasia Studio and our set of Turning Technologies' audience response systems
("clickers"). Ken is also willing to experiment with any emerging technologies, as he is currently
trying to figure out the secrets of
Google Wave. Ken is Chair of the Academic IT Committee as well as its subcommittee, the
Online Instruction Committee.
Ken has been at Dominican University since 1985, having first worked in the Rebecca Crown Library as a reference librarian and later as assistant director before making the move to IT in Teaching and Learning Technologies. He presently works in Faculty Development and Research Services, which reports to the Office of the Provost. He has taught the basic reference class and online searching in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and more recently CIS 120 for Rosary College. He has a B.A. in History, an M.A. in Library and Information Science, and an M.S. in Information Systems, all from Rosary/Dominican.
Founding Director
Jodi works with both full-time and
adjunct faculty to assess and strengthen student learning in their courses and to initiate and
sustain the scholarship of teaching and learning. She also serves as associate professor of
English, with a primary scholarly interest in autobiography and teaches in the LAS seminars
program. Before coming to Dominican, Jodi taught American literature and directed the Office for
Teaching, Learning and Assessment at DePaul University. Jodi has published and presented on higher
education topics such as professional development for adjunct faculty, teaching for critical
thinking, faculty theories of learning and increasing student engagement. She has also served as an
assessment mentor for the Higher Learning Commission.
Ken Black
Associate CTLE Director, Teaching and Learning Technologoies
Ken provides support to faculty with the
integration of technology within their pedagogy - whether online or in the classroom. This includes
(but is not limited to) assistance with either of our supported learning management systems (myDU and
Blackboard). Among the other tools currently on campus that Ken provides support for is
Camtasia Studio and our set of Turning Technologies' audience response systems
("clickers"). Ken is also willing to experiment with any emerging technologies, as he is currently
trying to figure out the secrets of
Google Wave. Ken is Chair of the Academic IT Committee as well as its subcommittee, the
Online Instruction Committee.
Ken has been at Dominican University since 1985, having first worked in the Rebecca Crown Library as a reference librarian and later as assistant director before making the move to IT in Teaching and Learning Technologies. He presently works in Faculty Development and Research Services, which reports to the Office of the Provost. He has taught the basic reference class and online searching in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and more recently CIS 120 for Rosary College. He has a B.A. in History, an M.A. in Library and Information Science, and an M.S. in Information Systems, all from Rosary/Dominican.
