Stewart I. Donaldson, dean of Claremont Graduate University’s School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, has been elected to the Board of the American Evaluation Association for a three-year term.
“I am honored that the American Evaluation Association Membership has elected me to serve during a time when the Obama administration promises to dramatically enhance the importance of the profession and discipline of evaluation,” said Donaldson.
The American Evaluation Association (AEA) is an international professional association devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and other forms of evaluation. The Association has approximately 5500 members from all 50 states in the US, as well as more than 60 foreign countries.
CGU professor and former president of the American Educational Research Association and the AEA, Michael Scriven, commented, “Good news that AEA will now have the benefit of the individual who built evaluation at Claremont Graduate University into its international flagship status.”
“This is a well-deserved honor for Dean Stewart Donaldson,” said Claremont Graduate University Interim President Joseph Hough. “His election to this prestigious board acknowledges his role as an innovator in evaluation sciences and underscores his extraordinary accomplishments in this field.”
Donaldson is the dean of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University, professor and chair of Psychology, and director of the Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research at the university. His leadership in the school continues to develop one of the most extensive and rigorous graduate programs specializing in applied psychology and evaluation science in the field. In addition to his teaching numerous university courses and professional development workshops, Donaldson has mentored and coached more than 100 graduate students and working professionals during the past two decades, and provided organizational consulting, applied research, or program evaluation services to more than 100 different organizations. He has been the principal investigator on more than 30 extramural grants and contracts, and has recently given talks and workshops in more than 25 cities throughout the U.S., as well as overseas in places such as Africa, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Australia, and in several regions of Canada and the United Kingdom.
Donaldson serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation, and the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation; is co-founder and leads the Southern California Evaluation Association; and served as co-chair of the Theory-Driven Evaluation and Program Theory Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association for eight years. His most recent evaluation books include What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice? (Sage, 2009) and Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science (2007, Erlbaum), and he has authored or co-authored more than 200 evaluation reports, scientific journal articles, and chapters, and has been honored with Early Career Achievement Awards from the Western Psychological Association and the American Evaluation Association.
About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio.
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