Date: Friday, May 10th Time: 11am-1pm Location: Neighborhood House at Wellstone Center Room 212, Anna Heilmaier Meeting Room 179 Robie Street East, Saint Paul, MN 55107 A light lunch will be included. Speakers: Elizabeth Lukanen, Deputy Director of the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE), will be discussing monitoring and evaluation plans related to health reform implementation more »
Apr
03
Children’s HeartLink: Monitoring and Evaluation Internship Opportunity
Children’s HeartLink: Monitoring and Evaluation Internship Background: Children’s HeartLink™ is an international NGO, based in Edina, MN. For over 40 years, Children’s HeartLink has been dedicated to the prevention and treatment of heart disease in children in the developing world. Our main focus is to help pediatric cardiac programs in underserved areas become sustainable centers of more »
Mar
15
Thank you for being a part of the MESI conference!
The 2013 MESI conference wrapped up last week and it was a wonderful success. At least we think it was. We’ll let you know what the evaluations say! Handouts: Some speakers many their handouts available Click here to see a list of sessions that have handouts available Check back, as handouts will be added as they become available. Photos: We will more »
Feb
21
Putting Youth Participatory Evaluation into Action: Lessons learned and innovations
Putting Youth Participatory Evaluation into Action: Lessons learned and innovations with Katie Richards-Schuster Thurs., Mar. 14, 2013 8:30 a.m. – 12 noon McNamara Alumni Center-Memorial Hall 200 Oak St. SE, Minneapolis map Cost: Free, but you must register Register to attend online Register to attend in-person Katie Richards-Schuster defines participatory evaluation as a process in which people more »
Jan
11
Graduate Review and Improvement Process (GRIP) featured in national publication
The work of *Dr. Jean King* (OLPD faculty and MESI Founder and Director), *Leah Hakkola* (PhD student, CIDE), *Marta Shaw* (PhD student, CIDE) and *Douglass Moon* (PhD student, evaluation studies) in the Graduate Review and Improvement Process (GRIP) was recently featured in the national publication Inside Higher Education. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cehd/news/2012/12/graduate-review-and-improvement-process-grip-subject-of-inside-higher-ed-article.html GRIP is an initiative to develop more »
Jan
10
2013 MESI Conference Scholarship Opportunities
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS: A number of student volunteer opportunities will be offered in conjunction with the MESI 2013 Spring Training Conference. By volunteering, you will be eligible to receive a free conference registration (does not include pre-conference workshops) . In order to receive free conference registration, students will assist in two scheduled positions for approximately more »
Jan
09
Registration for the 2013 MESI Spring Training Conference is now open!
The Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota is proud to announce that registration for the 2013 MESI Spring Training Conference is now open! The conference will be held on March 6-8, 2013 with Pre-Conference Workshops on March 4-5, 2013.This year’s theme is “Learning by Doing: Bridging Evaluation Theory and Practice.” The more »
Nov
08
Hanife Cakici- The Face of AEA!
Hanife Cakici is in the Evaluation Studies program, has been a student consultant on several MESI projects and is an active member of MNEA- the local affiliate the American Evaluation Association (AEA). This week Hanife was highlighted as the “Face of AEA”! AEA’s more than 7,600 members worldwide represent a range of backgrounds, specialties and more »
Oct
23
Getting Creative; Evaluating the American Evaluation Association Conference
If you are attending the American Evaluation Association 26th Annual Conference in Minneapolis this week, you may notice some innovative additions to the event. An interdisciplinary group of Graduate Students from the University of Minnesota, led by MESI Directors Jean King and Laura Pejsa, has taken on the challenge of evaluating the evaluation conference. The more »
Aug
29
“The Consultant with Pink Hair” by Cal Harrison- Book review by Chris Jones
Hello MESI friends and colleagues! As we learned at this year’s MESI Summer Institute, many evaluators we know are interested in working as independent consultants. A recent evaltalk post (evaltalk is the listserv of the American Evaluation Association) was particularly relevant to this topic. Chris Jones reviewed the book ”The Consultant with Pink Hair” by more »
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