Keynote Speaker: Lori Anthony
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| Lori Anthony |
Lori Anthony’s career spans more than twenty-five years with
experience in management, academe and interior design practice. In practice,
she supervised interior design departments and managed large corporate
accounts. In academe, she assumed managerial roles and directed undergraduate
and graduate interior architecture and landscape architecture programs where
she was responsible for assessment, accreditation, budgets, personnel,
strategic planning, scheduling and recruitment.
She holds a BS in interior design from Seton Hill University, a MS in
interior design from Virginia Tech and is currently pursuing a PhD in
architectural studies from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Lori is an innovative and creative thinker. She has
conducted various Design Thinking workshops – most recently, she partnered with
design professionals to conduct a series of Design Thinking sessions with
middle school special education teachers.
Prior to coming to Radford, she orchestrated the revamping of a
traditional four-year interior design curriculum and with her colleagues, created
an innovative three-year interior design bachelor’s degree– without summer
study. This project and resulting curriculum received local and national media
coverage - published by the Washington Post and televised nationally on PBS’s
Nightly Business Report.
Her research interests include innovation and creativity,
design thinking in education, workplace issues and the role of power in the
built environment. She has presented
nationally and internationally and has several publications in peer-reviewed
journals.
Invited Guest Speaker: Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson
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| Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson |
Carroll
Wetzel Wilkinson is the Director of Instruction and Information Literacy at
West Virginia University Libraries, has directed a university-wide information
literacy course enhancement program since 2009, and serves as the library
liaison to WVU’s Center for Women and Gender. She is a graduate of Wells
College in Aurora, New York; the Rutgers University MLS program; and ACRL’s
Immersion Tracks for Program (2007) and Assessment (2010).
Recently, she
was the co-editor with Courtney Bruch of Transforming
Information Literacy Programs: Intersecting Frontiers of Self, Library Culture,
and Campus Community, Association of College and Research Libraries
Publications in Librarianship Series #64, 2012. She and Courtney co-wrote the
first chapter of the book: “Surveying Terrain, Clearing Pathways.”
She is one
of five institutional participants in Dr. Megan Oakleaf’s 2010-11 cohort of the
Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) research project. Within the
last decade she published two articles about an information literacy course
(now called ULIB 301 Gender and the Research Process) which she developed in
2003. Wilkinson is a member of the ACRL, ALA, West Virginia
Library Association, and the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Chapter of the ACRL
(WPWVC). In June, 2007, she was a recipient
of the West Virginia University Libraries’ Outstanding Librarian Award.
