Margaret Elizabeth Holt, Ph.D.

 

Current and Recent Positions:  Margaret Holt is a retired faculty member Department of Adult Education at the University of Georgia, and since l981 an Associate with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. She is one of six founders of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation, a non-profit organization that annually awards scholarships to older women pursuing higher education. Her professional interests and expertise include technology [distance education] and learning, evaluation and program planning. She has taught adult learning theory, program development, public policy and adult education, and instructional methods.  She is a nationally recognized leader in adult education, program evaluation and philanthropy.

 

Honors and Awards: She has received numerous awards and special recognitions. A few follow:

 

  • 2004:  Appointed to the Council on Public Policy Education Washington, DC. 

 

  • 1994: Named a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia.

 

  • 1993: Appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Board of Visitors for the Community College of the Air Force. 

 

  • 1992: Recognized as Charter Member of the Ned Herrmann Group Research and Development Network.

 

  • 1991: Membership in University of  Georgia Round Table. 

 

  • 1989: National Issues Forum Five Year Program Award, Washington, D.C.

 

  • 1988: Inducted into Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.

 

  • 1986: Selected to Leadership Athens, Sponsored by the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

Recent Publications: Dr. Holt has co-authored two books on educational certificate programs and numerous articles and reports considering impact evaluations and follow up studies. She is former editor of the Journal Innovative Higher Education and has served as an advisor to the Phi Kappa Phi Journal, The National Forum.

 

More recent publications include an article about operating groups in cyberspace with Mike Davis in Innovative Higher Education, havingproblems@cm.com: new ways to miss the point, and two chapters in the recently released New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education series edited by Brad Cahoon, Adult Learning and the Internet. The chapters are "Facilitating Group Learning on the Internet" and "Ethical Considerations in Internet-Based Adult Education."

 

            Evaluation Experience: A few of Dr. Holts’s recent evaluation projects include:

 

·        Ongoing Consultant to Commonhealth ACTION, Washington, DC. (www.commonhealthaction.org)

 

·        2004: Evaluated instruction and teaching methods for the Combat Medic Training at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Texas.

 

·        2004: Conducted an evaluation of the Center for Community and Economic Development at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.

 

·        2004: Conducted an evaluation of the Army Medic Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas for the 91W10 Health Care Specialist (Department of Combat Medic Training, Center Brigade, U.S. Army Medical Center and School.)

 

·        2003: Evaluated an exercise program for seniors managed by UGA professor of exercise science, Dr. Elaine Cress.

 

·        2002: With Dr. Cassie Drennon, she completed a study for the Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services, Professional Development Section: DFCS Training and Evaluation- A Focus Group Study.

 

·        2001 served as a member of a design team for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change's "Leadership Plenty Project." 

 

·        2001: Appointed to the Board of Directors for the Kettering Foundation's National Issues Forum Institute Board.

 

·        2000: Evaluated a weeklong workshop on Security Management at Kaneohe Marine Base, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the World Vision Organization. 

 

·        2000: Evaluated a week long Combined Humanitarian and Response Training Course in San Antonio, Texas, at Fort Sam Houston. 

 

·        2000-August 2004: Evaluated a U.S. Department of Education demonstration program for the DeKalb County School System, "Elementary School Counseling." 

 

·        2000- 2001: Contracted with the Georgia Department of Human Services to provide l4 workshop modules on Adult Learning and Curriculum Design .

 

·        1999-2000: completed an evaluation of the Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Georgia.

 

·        1999: Lead evaluator for a FIPSE [United States Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education] three-year grant to the Southern Regional Education Board related to the development of a Distance Education Policy Laboratory.