Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities
Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities
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Cyd Jenefsky
Cyd Jenefsky is Professor and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at John F. Kennedy University. She directs the Office for Educational Effectiveness and the Hub for Educational Innovation at JFKU. At JFKU, she led the collaborative design and implementation of the University's outcomes-based academic program review and annual assessment processes. As a consultant and workshop leader in the U.S and internationally, Dr. Jenefsky assists university leaders and faculty with developing systems and skills for assessing student learning, conducting program review, building a culture of collaborative organizational learning, and other dimensions of organizational development. She co-authored WASC’s “good practices guide” on outcomes-based program review and currently serves on WASC’s Task Force on the Changing Ecology of Learning in Higher Education. With the Fetzer Institute, she is working on an intergenerational mentoring project to cultivate the next generation of higher ed leadership in integrative and transformative learning. Dr. Jenefsky is an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Educational Leadership, Innovation and Policy at SDSU, serves on the Board of Mindfulness Without Borders and the Advisory Board of Connecting for Change, a dialogue project of the Dalai Center for Peace and Education in Vancouver, BC. Previously, Dr. Jenefsky spearheaded university diversity initiatives and designed or directed academic programs in multicultural studies, women’s studies, and social ecology at the University of Georgia and JFK University. She received her BA from UC-Davis, and her MA and PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Linda Buckley
Linda Callis Buckley, Ph.D. is Associate Vice President for Academic Planning and Development at San Francisco State University, where she is responsible for institutional and program assessment, regional and specialized accreditation, program review, strategic planning, and institutional research. Her current portfolio includes oversight of the Facilitating Graduation Initiative, Departmental Capacity Analysis, and participation in institutional reorganization planning. Dr. Buckley frequently holds workshops on assessment and program review and often teaches courses in higher education at Ramkhmahaeng University in Bangkok, Thailand. She has served on many WASC site visit teams, and also participated for three years on the WASC Proposal Committee. She is a frequent presenter at the WASC Academic Resources Conference and AAC&U meetings.
Before entering administration, Dr. Buckley taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in phonetics, phonology, syntax, literacy, language and culture and sociolinguistics. Her academic research focused on literacy training, pedagogy, and language and culture. She has worked on Fulbright and USAID sponsored projects, as well as on contracts in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, China, Korea, Singapore, and Ivory Coast.
Dr. Buckley received her B.A. in English from the University of Georgia, her M.A. in Linguistics from UC, Davis, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC, Davis. She has worked in higher education for over 25 years.
Linda Callis Buckley, Ph.D. is Associate Vice President for Academic Planning and Development at San Francisco State University, where she is responsible for institutional and program assessment, regional and specialized accreditation, program review, strategic planning, and institutional research. Her current portfolio includes oversight of the Facilitating Graduation Initiative, Departmental Capacity Analysis, and participation in institutional reorganization planning. Dr. Buckley frequently holds workshops on assessment and program review and often teaches courses in higher education at Ramkhmahaeng University in Bangkok, Thailand. She has served on many WASC site visit teams, and also participated for three years on the WASC Proposal Committee. She is a frequent presenter at the WASC Academic Resources Conference and AAC&U meetings.
Before entering administration, Dr. Buckley taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in phonetics, phonology, syntax, literacy, language and culture and sociolinguistics. Her academic research focused on literacy training, pedagogy, and language and culture. She has worked on Fulbright and USAID sponsored projects, as well as on contracts in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, China, Korea, Singapore, and Ivory Coast.
Dr. Buckley received her B.A. in English from the University of Georgia, her M.A. in Linguistics from UC, Davis, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC, Davis. She has worked in higher education for over 25 years.