Ann Hill Duin
Dr. Ann Hill Duin is committed to excellence in higher education through engagement and partnership. Currently Ann is Interim Vice President and CIO in the Office of Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. Her over 30 years of teaching, scholarship, and administrative experiences focus on collaboration and excellence through innovative uses of technology. She has spearheaded system-wide partnerships in previous associate provost and associate dean positions, and at the invitation of the Higher Learning Commission, has facilitated inter-institutional teams in the design of sustainable partnerships. Her ongoing goal is to serve as a catalyst for leveraging technology to advance and support extraordinary education, breakthrough research, and dynamic public engagement.
Ann is also a professor in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent publications focus on shared leadership and change in higher education.
Linda L. Baer
Dr. Linda Baer is the principal senior consultant and founder of i4Solutions which focuses on inspiring leaders to innovate, integrate and implement solutions to improve student success and transform institutions for the future.
Dr. Linda Baer was a Senior Program Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Postsecondary Success. At the foundation, she was responsible for initiatives that improved student success and completion including work with associations to improve trustee and leadership understanding of student completion. She also built the partnerships to establish a national portfolio for analytics for higher education. Before moving to the foundation, she was the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Students Affairs with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Linda served as the Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and also Interim President at Bemidji State University.
Dr. Baer has provided thirty years of leadership in higher education. She presents nationally in academic innovations, educational transformation, the development of alliances and partnerships, the campus of the future, shared leadership and most recently on action analytics. She co-presented on Assessment, Accountability, Accreditation and Analytics: Connecting the Dots. Recent publications include ÃÂSmart ChangeÃÂ published in Planning for Higher Education, Action Analytics Measuring and Improving performance that Matters in Higher Education in Educause Review, and Shared Leadership in a Green, Global, Google World published in the October-December 2010 issue of Planning for Higher Education. 3-G Force: Reinventing Higher Education through Shared Leadership appeared in the spring 2011Trustee Quarterly Magazine, the Association of Community Colleges Trustees journal. Book chapters she has co-authored include Building the Capacity for Change, in Innovations in Higher Education and From Metrics to Analytics, Reporting to Action: AnalyticÃÂs Role in Changing the Learning Environment in The Game Changers: Education and Information Technology, forthcoming from EDUCAUSE in spring 2012.
Together with Donald Norris and Michael Offerman, she led planning for the First and Second Annual Symposiums on
Action Analytics. She coauthored several White Papers to support the First National Symposium, ÃÂWhy Action Analytics
in Higher Education?ÃÂ ÃÂLinking Analytics to Lifting Out of Recession,ÃÂ and A National Agenda for Action Analytics in Higher
Education.ÃÂ She has also presented several Webinars on action analytics. She recently presented with Don Norris at the
IMS Global Learning Consortium Conference on ÃÂTransforming Online Learning to Enhance Performance, Productivity
and Value.ÃÂ
Under Dr. BaerÃÂs leadership, Minnesota Online, the gateway to programs and courses offered via the Internet by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, received the 2006 Institutional Service Award from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the 2006 Tekne Award recognizing Minnesota's technology users and developers in innovation, development, education, commercialization and management of technology in Minnesota. This award is presented each year by the Minnesota High Tech Association and Minnesota Technology, Inc., in partnership with LifeScience Alley.
Dr. Baer was recognized as a 2007 International Exemplary Leader by The Chair Academy, an international organization that provides leadership training for post-secondary education leaders. She was cited for her role in developing the award-winning Minnesota Online, a system portal for online learning and other new kinds of instructional technology; strengthening ties between colleges and universities and the workplace; and improving assessment and accountability. She served on the Board of Directors for the Society for College and University Planning and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Shank Institute for Learning Innovations. She will be joining the Community College Center for Student Engagement National Advisory Committee.
Dr. BaerÃÂs commitment to transformation and innovation in higher education has been a centerpiece for her work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She has focused on student success from entry, connection, progress and completion in the learner pathway. The foundation is committed to improving learners earning a post-secondary credential with labor market value by improving system productivity. Her major portfolio work is exploring and developing data analytics and predictive modeling using higher education business intelligence. This improved data capacity will bring a critically important toolset to support interventions for student success and innovative change in higher education. She also works with the American Association for Community Colleges National Commission for the Future of Community Colleges and the American Council of Education as they facilitate the discussion on next generation accreditation model. Leadership development among college trustees is supported through a grant to the Association of Community College Trustees Governance Institute for Student Success. She believes that: ÃÂThe best way to predict the future is to invent it!ÃÂ
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