2007-08 Officers and Board of Directors

Dr. Gwen Aldridge - President.

Gwen Polk Aldridge presently serves as the Director of Assessment at Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis. Prior to taking this position in January of 2008, she served as Director of Institutional Planning and Research and also as a mathematics instructor at Northwest Mississippi Community College. Gwen has served as Vice-President and as President of the Mississippi Collegiate Mathematics Association (MCMA), as Vice-President and President of the Mississippi Association for Institutional Research (MAIR), and as Secretary for two terms and President-Elect/Program Chair for SACCR. She has made presentations for MAIR, for the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, for MCMA, for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and at the SACS-COC Annual Meeting. She has served as a peer reviewer on seven COC Review Teams. Her paper on “Bayesian Bootstrap Methods for Developmental Studies” was published in the February 2005 issue of The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

Gwen Aldridge attended Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she earned a B.S.E. degree in Mathematics and the University of Mississippi in Oxford where she earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics, with area of concentration in Statistics. Gwen and her husband reside in Batesville, MS and are parents of two daughters and two sons. She is committed to the SACCR organization and places great value in the resources and networking opportunities that the organization provides.

Contact Info: Southwest Tennessee Community College; 737 Union Avenue; Memphis, TN 38103; gpaldridge@southwest.tn.edu; office: 901-333-5257

Ms. Patricia A. Goodman - President-Elect and Program Chair.
Patricia Goodman currently serves as the Dean of Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness at Gateway Community and Technical College in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. Prior to coming to Gateway, Patricia served in various roles at Big Sandy Community and Technical College including Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Coordinator of Institutional Research, PeopleSoft Specialist for Process Improvement, and Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator for Information Technology. She has earned an A.A.S. with a specialization in Business Management, a B.S. with a specialization in Accounting, and a M.B.A. with a specialization in Computer Information Systems. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Community College Leadership at Walden University. She is a member of the Kentucky Association for Institutional Research and the American Association of Women in Community Colleges. Patricia has delivered multiple presentations on student access and building a culture of evidence and co-authored an article, Student Success through Policy and Practice, that was published in the August/September 2005 issue of the Community College Journal.

Gateway Community and Technical College, 300 Buttermilk Pike, Suite 334, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky 41017
Ph: 859-442-1173, Fax: 859-426-3385, E -mail: patricia.goodman@kctcs.edu

Dr. Judy S. Woods - Secretary.

Itawamba Community College, 602 W Hill Street, Fulton , MS 38843-9981, Ph: 662-862-8028, Fax: 662-862-8040, E-mail: jcwoods@iccms.edu

Dr. Linda Serra Hagedorn - At-Large Member for Programs and Outstanding Paper Awards.

Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Educational Administration and Policy Department at the College of Education at the University of Florida. She is also the Director of UF’s Institute of Higher Education (IHE). Under her direction, IHE has become a partner in the national Achieving the Dream Initiative covering 15 states and 85 community colleges. She is currently developing online instruction for community college institutional researchers. Research foci include community college issues, college retention of underrepresented student groups, and equity.

University of Florida, P.O. Box 117049, Norman Hall, Room 258, Gainesville , FL 32611-7049, Ph: 352-392-2391, ext. 300, Fax: 352-392-0038, e-mail: hagedorn@coe.ufl.edu

Edith (Edie) Carder, Newsletter Editor.

Edie will, once again, serve as the Editor for the SACCR Newsletter, a duty she has performed for more years than she cares to remember. A long time member of SACCR, Edie received her Ph. D. in Educational Research from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). When not applying the blue pencil to the SACCR newsletter, Edie serves as Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Radford University.

Radford University , P O Box 6924, Radford, VA 24142 Email: ecarter@radford.edu

Annabelle Lewis, Communications Chair.

Dr. Lewis is a graduate of Concord College, East Tennessee State University and Colorado State University. She currently serves as Director of Institutional Planning and Effectiveness at Augusta Technical College in Augusta, GA. She spent the last 16 years in various positions in postsecondary education. These professional experiences include: Vice President of Instruction at Chattahoochee Technical College; Campus Dean at Coconino Community College in Arizona; and, District Dean and Campus Dean at Mohave Community College in Arizona. Dr. Lewis has been a member and officer of numerous professional and community organizations including: Work Force Recruitment and Job Training Council with the Arizona Department of Commerce; Kingman Arizona Airport Authority, Inc.; Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board; Arizona Academic and Occupational Administrators Associations; and, lifetime member of American Association of University Women.

Augusta Technical College , 3200 Augusta Tech Dr, Augusta, GA 30906 Email: alewis@augustatech.edu

Debbie Goodman – Marketing Chair.

Debbie is the Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness at Southwest Georgia Technical College (SWGTC), a position she has held since 1994. In this role, her major responsibilities are initiating and managing SWGTC’s Institutional Effectiveness Model and its components; and coordinating the preparation of the College’s fact book, strategic plan, annual plan, Perkins Grant, and SWGTC Performance Accountability System (PAS). She also coordinates staff development at SWGTC. Debbie has directed institutional self-studies for COC and COE and has served on several accreditation visiting teams for the two agencies. Following team member training at the last SACCR conference, Debbie served on an on-site team for a technical college reaffirmation of accreditation. Debbie holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from Oklahoma State University. She worked previously in higher education at Rogers State College, Claremore, Oklahoma and at Troy State University in Dothan, Alabama. She is currently serving as member-at-large for GAIRPAQ (Georgia Association of Institutional Research, Planning, Assessment, and Quality). She serves on the Data Committee of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education: PAS Peer Group, an organization she previously served as chair.

Debbie is a long-time member of SACCR, attending most SACCR annual meetings since 1994 and has presented at past meetings. Debbie lives at the Big Barn Cottage on Pebble Hill Plantation outside of Thomasville, GA with her husband Wallace and chocolate laboratory retriever Molly. Wallace is the general manager of the 3,000 acre Plantation. Pebble Hill consists of an historic home, now open as a house museum housing incredible sporting art and collections, various stables and out-buildings, and property. The Plantation is owned by Pebble Hill Foundation and is open to the public as a major tourist attraction in the State of Georgia. The web site is www.pebblehill.com. In her spare time Debbie serves on boards of local organizations: Halcyon Home and the Boys and Girls Club. She enjoys interior design, landscaping, and reading.

Southwest Georgia Technical College, 15689 US Hwy 19N, Thomasville, GA 31792 Email: dgoodman@southwestgatch.edu