BKM's 4th Annual
Higher Ed, Higher Tech Symposium
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
8:15 am - 6:00 pm
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10.13.09

CEU: New Research Discoveries in Library Design
Ed Roy, Education Solutions Group, Steelcase

Engaging Learning in Second Life
Dr. Bryan Carter, University of Central Missouri

BKM's 4th Annual
Higher Ed, Higher Tech Symposium
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
8:15 am - 6:00 pm
BKM Total Office of Texas
9755 Clifford Dr. Ste.100
Dallas, Texas 75220
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Attendees Include:
• University Presidents
• University Deans
• Architects & Designers
• Faculty
• University Planners
• Facilities...etc.

Dr. Bryan Carter is an Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Central Missouri (UCMO). He specializes in African American literature of the 20th Century, with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance and a secondary emphasis on visual culture.

Dr. Carter created one of the earliest full virtual reality environments in 1997 with his Virtual Harlem dissertation project—a recreation of Harlem, NY as it existed in the 1920s. Virtual Harlem has been presented at numerous venues in the United States, as well as venues in Paris, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Hungary.

For the past two years, Dr. Carter has been teaching classes that meet totally inside Second Life inside his virtual classroom called “Freeside”. He is also actively involved with Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre, where students develop their own interesting, interactive content.

Mr. Simoneaux consults internationally with companies to support the linkage of corporate strategies to workplace development. He has been with Steelcase for 20 years and is a manager with the Steelcase Applied Research & Consulting Group. He is a registered Architect with a specialty in Organizational Development and works globally as a professional consultant in workplace envisioning, design development, architecture, and organizational/cultural change management. He lectures extensively around the world on topics that contribute to continuing education credits for professionals. He is particularly interested in leveraging business strategies to foster innovation and generate intellectual capital through the connections between people, culture and the work environment.

Ed Roy is Sales Director, Education Solutions Group for Steelcase Inc., an international work effectiveness company whose knowledge, products and services enhance the quality of people's lives in work and learning environments. Its product portfolio includes furniture systems, seating, lighting, storage, architectural and technology products, and related products. The company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Appointed to this position in October 2008, Ed is responsible for sales to the higher education market in the United States and Canada.

Ed is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Michigan Colleges Foundation.

Ed joined Steelcase in 1995. Other roles he has held at the company include director of the Solutions Resource Team, where he supported field sales staff with sales and marketing resources, and sales manager in Boston.

Prior to joining Steelcase, Ed was a district manager for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was responsible for the sale of P&G products to major customers.

A native of St. Louis, Mo., Ed holds a bachelor’s in finance from Saint Louis University. He currently resides in Grand Rapids.

Stephen K. Mittelstet is president of Richland College of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD), where he has served on the humanities faculty since the college opened in 1972.  Richland’s president since 1979, Dr. Mittelstet was recognized  by the 79th Texas Legislature for more than a quarter century of outstanding service as President of Richland College and for his contributions to the educational vitality of the State of Texas. 

Under Dr. Mittelstet’s leadership, Richland College is the first (and still only) community college to be recognized by the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce as a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (2005) and only the third in higher education; is the first accredited higher education institution to receive the Governor’s Texas Award for Performance Excellence (2005); was selected for the Community Engagement Classification in the Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships category by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, addressing the nature and extent of engagement with the community (2006); and was named a Vanguard Learning College by the League for Innovation in the Community College (1999/2000), a Greater Expectations College in the Liberal Arts by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, a Pacesetter Best-in-Class Honoree by Florida State University, and one of eight pilot institutions for new accreditation standards by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.  In two of the last four years in which the Dallas Metroplex Technology Business Council has presented its top annual Tech Titan of the Future Award to Texas colleges and universities, Richland College received the award in 2006 and 2008 for its “innovative P-16 industry-ISD-higher education STEM partnerships, including its dual-credit STEM charter high school (RCHS), its award-winning ‘farm-team’ seamless transfer Engineering program to five Texas Engineering Schools, and its partnership with two of the state’s first five public school STEM academies.”  Richland College has provided technical assistance and faculty training in Vietnam, Mozambique, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Wales, New Zealand, and Senegal and is partnering (since 2005) with Saratov State University (Russia) in offering the first courses in a jointly-developed distance-learning degree program, with current interest expressed by potential additional university partners from Hungary and Ukraine.  Richland is a charter signatory to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

Dr. Mittelstet also serves as Superintendent of Schools for the dual credit-only RCHS of Mathematics, Science & Engineering--the only community college charter school in Texas (2005)--rated “Exemplary” since its inception by the Texas Education Agency, where graduates earn simultaneous high school  diploma/associate degrees.  He earned his B.A. degree summa cum laude in English, French, and History/Religion from McMurry College and his Ph.D. in higher education administration/English from The University of Texas at Austin.  He has completed post-doctoral work at l’Institute de la Valouze, France; Centre d’Etudes Françaises, Institute for American Universities; University of Avignon, France; Centro Linguistico, Costa Rica; and the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communications, Portland State University.  Dr. Mittelstet has served on numerous national, regional, and state higher education boards and task forces and on boards of chambers of commerce, planning and economic development councils, homeless assistance entities, and work readiness consortia.  Serving on the faculty of the Salzburg Global Seminar in 2008, Dr. Mittelstet is a frequent national and international keynoter and panelist on such topics as performance excellence, building sustainable local and world community, and a whole-person/whole-organization/whole-community approach to building a whole, healthy planet.  He delivered the opening keynote to the first Congress of Vietnamese Community College Presidents (Mekong Delta) (2005) where he awarded ESOL Teaching Certificates to Vietnamese faculty trained by Richland College faculty.   

Audra Barrett works as Dean of Distance Learning for Richland College. She has worked with faculty and students to develop policies and procedures which enable Richland’s distance learning program to grow. Audra received her Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Audra received, as part of her Masters degree, a focus in Rhetoric, with which she teaches English online courses.

Audra has experience hiring and evaluating online instructors and courses. She has designed online courses. She has attended numerous webinars and conferences about online course development and education. Audra serves as mentor for RLC Disabilities Services in regards to Distance Learning. Audra was awarded best teaching practices at Richland College for bringing technology to the ESOL classroom. Due to Audra’s presentations in Distance Learning she has been asked to train faculty and speak at various conferences.

Janet C. James, dean/executive assistant to the president, has worked in the Richland College president’s office since 1997, and has spent her entire professional career in education.  Prior to her current position, she was the director of public information and technical communications for El Centro College, 1982-1997. El Centro College adjunct humanities instructor, 1991-1997; El Centro College adjunct human development instructor, 1988-1989; DISD community relations facilitator, 1977-1982; and a DISD high school band director from 1971-1977.  Her current responsibilities include: communications, speech,  creative writing, video and audio production for the president; college liaison to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges; and communications point person for architectural design, new construction, and building renovation.  Janet earned her bachelor in music degree from The University of Texas at Austin and her master of liberal arts degree from Southern Methodist University.  Her career honors include: nine National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR) Paragon and Medallion design awards; El Centro College Spirit of El Centro, 1990; El Centro College Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award-Arts and Sciences Division, 1996; Richland College Outstanding Employee of the Month, October 1999; Richland College Innovation of the Year, 2002-2003; Richland College Administrator of the Year, 2005-2006; and various musical composition honors.