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Julie
Nominated By: Julie Furst-Bowe
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Doctor
Family Names(s): Furst-Bowe
Mailing Address: 6505 Fox Lake Drive
Edwardsville, IL 62025
Edwardsville, IL 62025
Country: United States
Office Telephone: 16186502481
Office Fax: 16186502270
Residence Telephone: 17152259683
Email: jfurstb@siue.edu
Nationality/Citizenship: USA
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 23-06-1963
Current Position: Chancellor
Current Employer: Southern Illinois University
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: ENGLISH, FRENCH
Fluent in Writing: ENGLISH, FRENCH
Fluent in Speaking: ENGLISH, FRENCH
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Doctor of Education, University of Minnesota, 1995
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Master of Science in Instructional Technology, University of Wisconsin-Stout, 1986
3. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1985
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Institutional quality assurance reviews / audits
- Program reviews / accreditations
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Internal QA of institutions
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- External Review of QAAs
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- QA of cross border offerings
- Student feedback and surveys
- Research assessment
- Online program accreditation
Other (please specify): Baldrige Model
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Peer Reviewer, trainer, panelist and presenter
Institution/City/Country: Higher Learning Commission (accrediting agency), Chicago, IL
Date: 1998 to present
Type of Experience:
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
2. Brief Description: External Review Panel
Institution/City/Country: Institute of Technical Education, Ministry of Education, Singapore
Date: 2008 to 2013
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
3. Brief Description: Consultant
Institution/City/Country: Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (Fulbright Specialist), Baku
Date: 2011
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
4. Brief Description: Senior Examiner, Board of Overseers
Institution/City/Country: Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, Washington DC
Date: 2005 to present
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: Dr. Julie Furst-Bowe was appointed the eighth Chancellor of Southern Illinois University in 2012. Southern Illinois University is a comprehensive master’s university with more than 14,000 students and 2,500 faculty and staff members housed on three campuses in the greater St Louis area. Before her appointment as Chancellor, she served from as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, the first and only university to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. While at UW-Stout, Dr. Furst-Bowe led all continuous improvement efforts leading to the award. She also served as a faculty member, department chair and assessment coordinator during her tenure at UW-Stout. Julie is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in quality improvement in higher education and has authored several articles and edited two books on this topic, Quality and Performance Excellence in Higher Education and Advancing the STEM Agenda: Quality Improvement Supports STEM. For the past seven years, she has served as editor of the International Journal of Excellence in Education and has served as a quality improvement consultant for numerous colleges and universities across the United States. Over the past decade, she has shared her experience with educators in 16 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She has made several visits to Asia and has been a speaker at conferences and a consultant at universities in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. In 2011, she was selected to be a Fulbright Specialist working with a new university in Baku, Azerbaijan, through the Fulbright program, and she recently completed a five-year term as an external reviewer for the Ministry of Education in Singapore. She is a founding board member of the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education and serves as higher education chair for the American Society for Quality. She also serves on the advisory board for ASQ’s journal, Quality Approaches in Higher Education. Dr. Furst-Bowe has served as a peer reviewer and trainer for the Higher Learning Commission for more than a decade, and she is active in the American Association of State College and Universities, the American Association for Engineering Education and the International Association of University Presidents. A former senior Baldrige examiner, Julie was recently appointed to the National Board of Overseers for the Baldrige Awards Program. She has also served as a board member, speaker, examiner and judge for the state quality award programs in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Dr. Furst-Bowe earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation received the Award of Excellence for Outstanding Research from the International Society for Performance Improvement. She has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award, from Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership in 2011 and the Golden Quill Award from the American Society for Quality in 2013.
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