Participants in the Process (Acknowledgements)

The following is the list of of the many faculty, staff, students, alumni,
employers, and other friends of the UT Arlington community, to whom the SACS Leadership Team and the Steering Committee express their gratitude. Major contributors are listed below.

SACS Leadership Team
James D. Spaniolo (President); Dana Dunn (Provost); Michael Moore (Senior Associate Provost); Pam Haws (SACS Liaison and Compliance Certification Coordinator); Victoria A. Farrar-Myers (QEP Coordinator)

QEP Steering Committee
Rebecca Boles (Architecture); Mark Eakin (Business Administration); Jill Fox (Education); John Priest (Engineering); Denny Bradshaw (Liberal Arts); Cheryl Anderson (Nursing); D.L. Hawkins (Science); Doreen Elliott (Social Work); Joel Goldsteen (Urban and Public Affairs); Minerva Cordero-Epperson (Honors); Dan Formanowicz (Faculty Senate); Araya Maurice (Academic Affairs); Pat O’Neill (Student Affairs); Dawn Remmers (Advising); Julie Alexander (Library); Phil Cohen (Graduate School); Carl Esposito (student); Holly Lortie (Student Governance Liaison); Samuel Odamah (student); Bobbie Brown (GRA); Cheryl Cardell (Academic Affairs); Sharon Judkins (Nursing); Sheena Odwani (student); Nancy Rowe (Statistical Services); Steven Apell (GRA)

Primary Investigators (bolded) and Their Co-Authors
School of Architecture: Rebecca Boles, Dean Donald Gatzke, John Maruszczak, Thomas Rusher; College of Business Administration: Edmund Prater, Patricia Swafford; College of Education: Jeannine Hirtle, Nancy Hadaway, Beverly Boulware, Joy Wiggins, Kathleen Tice; College of Engineering: Bonnie Boardman, William E. Dillon, Lynn Peterson; Honors College: Robert McMahon, Karl Petruso, and Minerva Cordero-Epperson; College of Liberal Arts: Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Deen, Victoria A. Farrar-Myers, and Dale Story
University Library/College of Liberal Arts: Gretchen Trkay and Joanna Johnson; School of Nursing: Fran Martin; College of Science: Tuncay Aktosun, Ruth Gornet, Hristo Kojouharov, Barbara Shipman, Jianzhond Su

Others Pre-Proposal Submissions
School of Architecture: John Maruszczak, Ralph Hawkins, Brad Bell, Donald Gatzke, Rebecca Boles, Roger Connah College of Business Administration: Cynthia Kalina-Kaminsky and Cheryl Prachyl Career Development: Cheri Butler Campus Recreation: Sharon Carey College of Education: Lee Ann Dumas, David Stader, Michael Anderson, Shirley Theriot and Kim Ruebal College of Engineering: John Patterson Honors College: Karl Petruso College of Liberal Arts: Miriam Byrd, Richard Francaviglia, Ann Hodges, Mary French, Charles Knerr, Charles Nussbaum, Harry Reeder, and Kenneth Roemer University Library: Julie Alexander and Evelyn Barker School of Nursing: Mindy Anderson, Judy LeFlore and Jacqueline Michaels Office for Students with Disabilities: Dianne Hengst College of Science: Nilakshi Veeribathi, Robert Bonadurer, Manfred Cuntz, Jianzhond Yu, James Horwitz, and Barbara Shipman School of Urban and Public Affairs: Allen Repko

Deans of the Colleges and Schools
Donald Gatzke (School of Architecture); Daniel Himarios (College of Business Administration); Jeannie Gerlach (College of Education); William Carroll (College of Engineering); Robert McMahon (Honors College); Beth Wright (College of Liberal Arts); Elizabeth Poster (School of Nursing); Paul Paulus (College of Science); Santos Hernandez (School of Social Work); Richard Cole (School of Urban and Public Affairs)

Vice Presidents
Gary Cole (Vice President for Development); Ron Elsenbaumer (Vice President for Office of Research); John Hall (Vice President for Administration and Campus Operations); Frank Lamas (Vice President for Student Affairs); Suzanne Montague (Vice President for Office of Information Technology); Amy Schultz (Interim Vice President for Communications); Rusty Ward (Vice President for Business Affairs and Controller)

Student Congress Executive Board
Zac Sanders (President of Student Congress); Collins Watson (Vice President of Student Congress); Holly Lortie (Parliamentarian of Student Congress); Kelly Earnest (Program Director of Student Congress); Stacey McKendry (Secretary of Student Congress); and Student Congress Senators for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007

Northeastern University Summer Institute
on Experiential Education at Martha’s Vineyard
UT Arlington team members: Jill Fox and Greg Hale; Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute staff

QEP Marketing Task Force/Committee
Task Force: Kerri Ressl (Co-Chair/Alumni); Andy Axsom (Co-Chair/Advising Staff); Ricardo Lopez (Employer/Alumni); Evelyn Barker (Library); Danny Woodward (President’s Office); Carol Lehman (University Publications); Mark Lansdon (SACS Website); Seth Ressl (Programming Events/Staff); William Knisley (Students); Andrea Sample (Students); Joe Tesoro (Students); Carl Esposito (Students); Mark Peterson (Marketing Faculty Member)

Committee: Lisa Nagy (Co-Chair/Student Affairs); Andy Axsom (Co-Chair/Advising Staff); Kelly Earnest (Student Affairs/Student Congress); Carl Esposito (Visitor’s Center/Alumni/Graduate Student); John Hillas (Student Affairs); William Knisley (EX.C.E.L.. Campus Activities); Carol Lehman (University Publications); Ricardo Lopez (UTA Alumni/Employer); Angel Taylor (Student Success Programs); Dara Newton (Undergraduate Recruitment/Admissions); Mark Peterson (Marketing Faculty Member); Michael Poole (E.X.C.E.L. Campus Activities); Amanda Pritchard (Graduate Studies/Graduate Student); Kerri Ressl (Alumni Association)

External Speakers
Charles C. Bonwell; Joseph Hoey

Office of University Publications
Carol Lehman (Graphics); Robert Crosby (Photography); Chuck Pratt (Assistant Director of University Publications; Teodozja Korzeniowski (Web Specialist); Mark Permenter (Director of University Publications)

Video Services
Lisa Evans-Reagan (Director of University Video Services), James Sanders (TV Producer- Director), Don Harris

Student Affairs Division
Jeff Sorensen (Assistant Vice President for Student Governance and Organizations); Marty Sorensen (Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs); Molly Alfers (Assistant Director); Cathy Prichett (Director of Programming, Honors College); Sharon Carey (Director of Campus Recreation); Drew Barfield (Assistant Director of Intramural Sports & Sports Clubs); Chris Muller (Associate Director of Campus Recreation); Doug Kuykendall (Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs)

Distance Education
Pete Smith (Assistant Vice President of Distance Education); Mark Chapman (Technical Media Coordinator); Clayton Beberstein (Manager; Technical Operations)

UT Arlington Library
Gerald Saxon (Dean); Mary Jo Lyons (Coordinator for Information Literacy); Gretchen Trkay (Instruction & Information Literacy Librarian); Tommy Wingfield (Librarian); Kristin Swenson (Web Specialist)

UT Arlington Classes
INTD 4345 (Architectural Graphics) and especially Tabitha Pease, Cortney Wells, Tetsuya Okamoto, and Mary Duke; SOCW 6396 (Social Work Education: Principles and Skills) Spring 2006 Class

Consultants
Joni Spurlin (University Director of Assessment, North Carolina State University); Donna Qualters (Director of Center for Effective University Teaching, Northeastern University); Mary French (Assistant Professor in English)

Additional Contributors
Associate Deans and Academic Directors
Association of Academic Directors and Chairs
Bart Weiss (Associate Professor of Art & Art History)
Bill Daley (Director, Office of Information Technology)
Bob Wegner (Associate Dean for Program Research and Evaluation, SUPA)

Chairs, Departments, Colleges, and School faculty meetings who hosted QEP discussions
Christina Cobb (Alumni Director) and Alumni Board of Directors
David Tees (Director of Training and Services, SUPA)
Delene Remmers (Administrative Assistant, Counseling & Career Development)
Development Board of the University of Texas at Arlington
Elfriede Foster (Instructor, Architecture & Environmental Design)
Faculty Senate
Faculty survey respondents
Fatema Lotia (Student)
George Chave (Associate Professor of Music)
Judy Young (Director, Office of International Education)
Karl Petruso (QEP Editor, Professor Anthropology)
Linda Wilson (Assistant Provost)
Mary Lynn Crow (Professor of Education)
Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness
Offices of the President and Provost
Respondents to QEP White Paper and Iterative QEP draft release
Robert Hower (Chairperson and Professor of Art & Art History)
Stephanie Hamm (Social Work Ph.D. Student)
Stephen Morris (Student)
Strategic planning conversation and focus group participants
Student and Alumni survey respondents
Student presentation participants Undergraduate and Graduate Assembly