CSBMHP Faculty Affiliate
Dr. Karen Maitland Schilling
Contact
Information:
143 Upham Hall
513.529.4432 Voice
schillk@muohio.edu
Dr. Karen Maitland Schilling is Dean of the College of Arts and Science and
Professor of Psychology at Miami University . In recent years, her work has
focused heavily on program development and evaluation. She completed a review
of the multi-million dollar portfolio of projects related to reform of accreditation
in higher education for the Pew Charitable Trusts and a multi-year, FIPSE-
U.D. Department of Education supported project on increasing expectations
for student academic effort. She served from 1990-1995 as Miami University
's first University Director of Liberal Education, overseeing implementation
of a very broadly based curriculum reform project, and developing an approach
to program assessment based in comprehensive student portfolios. She also
directed the Women's Studies Program at Miami University . She has consulted
at dozens of universities in the U.S. and abroad on assessment and curriculum
development and has served for six years as a program faculty member for the
Institutes on General Education sponsored by the Association of American Colleges
and Universities. She played a significant role in the development of the
monograph, Strong Foundations for General Education. Karen also authored the
book, Proclaiming and sustaining excellence: Assessment as a faculty role,
and several other influential articles and chapters on assessment in higher
education. Schilling is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of General Education
and Liberal Education. Karen completed her undergraduate work in psychology
at Tufts University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University
of Florida.
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