Deborah J Bushway Author

Deborah J. Bushway currently serves as the Provost at Northwest Health Sciences University and as an educational consultant. She has served in a variety of roles prior to this, including Senior Advisor in the Office of the Undersecretary at the Department of Education in Washington, DC., interim associate Dean at the University of Wisconsin – Extension, and the Chief Academic Officer and Vice President of Academic Innovation at Capella University.

Laurie Dodge is the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Assessment & Planning and Vice Provost at Brandman University and serves as the Founding President of the Board of Directors of the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN). She has worked in higher education for over 20 years as a faculty member, interim dean, and assessment director. In 2016, she was named one of the “The Sixteen Most Innovative People in Higher Education” by Washington Monthly.

Charla S. Long is the Executive Director for the Competency-Based Education Network, a national consortium of higher education institutions and statewide systems seeking to design, develop, and scale new models of student learning. Additionally, she leads a consulting firm dedicated to helping institutions with competency-based learning.