AAEEBL is delighted to welcome Terry Rhodes as our 2018 Batson Lecturer.  In this role, he will give our closing keynote for the Annual Meeting in July.

Dr. Terrel Rhodes is Vice President, Office of Quality, Curriculum and Assessment and Executive Director of VALUE at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) where he focuses on the quality of undergraduate education, access, general education, e-portfolios and assessment of student learning. He was a faculty member for twenty-five years before joining AAC&U. He leads the faculty-driven assessment project on student learning entitled Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Institute.  For three years, it involved 100 institutions in thirteen states in a nationwide project to assess student learning and is now open to all institutions.

Since 20007, Terry has lead AAC&U’s ePortfolio initiatives to enhance student learning, including founding the annual ePortfolio Forum in 2010.  The ePortfolio Forum is a one day event, always held in conjunction with the AAC&U Annual Meeting in January.

Rhodes received his B.A. from Indiana University at Bloomington and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.