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Advisory Groups
Quality Assurance
The Quality Assurance Advisory Group brings together experts in accreditation and quality assurance to assist and inform Credential Engine’s work, ensuring that the tools and services provided are mindful of best practices in the quality assurance arena. This advisory group acts resource regarding the trends and issues related to new and evolving credentials and the challenges these types of credentials create in evaluating quality and market value.
Why We Believe In Credential Transparency
Creating a transparent credential marketplace using the technologies available through Credential Engine enables the quality assurance community to have:
- Clear lines of communication to educators, policymakers, employers and more about how quality assurance connects to credentials
- Access to credential data to help inform and drive quality assurance trends
- Insights into credential data that impact quality assurance processes
- Improved ability to execute their mission to help students, parents, guidance counselors and employers recognize and understand credential quality.
Who We Are
The Quality Assurance Group is made up of leaders in the accreditation and quality assurance community looking to work together to use data to improve credential and provider quality for all.
Paul Gaston* Chair, Trustees Professor, Kent State University
Yuanxia Ding CEO, Entelechia
Deborah Adair Executive Director, Quality Matters
Julie Carnahan Vice President (retired), State Higher Education Executive Officers Association
Carla Casilli Co-Facilitator, Connecting Credentials, Open Badges + Digital Credentials Strategist
Juanita Gurubatham Director of Institutional Review & Development, Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
Larry Kaye Special Advisor, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
Vijay Krishna Director, Personnel Credentialing Accreditation Programs, American National Standards Institute
Mary Ellen Petrisko President, WASC Senior College and University Commission
John Plifka Director, Quality Assurance Office, U.S. Army, HQ Training and Doctrine Command
Denise Roosendaal Executive Director, Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE)
Terrel Rhodes VP, Quality, Curriculum, Assessment, Association of American Colleges & Universities
Joseph Vilbert Executive Director, Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditation
Ralph Wolff President, Ralph Woolf & Associates, LLC
* Indicates Advisory Group chair