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About the Author
Dr. Liliana Rodríguez-Campos earned
her Ph.D. in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design. She
received an Outstanding Dissertation Award, and a Provost’s Special
Recognition for this Ph.D. Also, as part of her educational
background, she earned her Bachelor's in Systems Engineering with
Honorific Mention, and her Specialist and Master's degrees in
Project Management in Engineering with Summa Cum Laude Honors.
Furthermore, she received a President's Special Recognition for her
second Master's degree in Educational Leadership with a
concentration in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design.
Dr. Rodríguez has been awarded with
several honors and educational scholarships at the national and
international levels. For example, in 2007 she received the American
Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award for a promising
evaluator within five years of completing her Doctoral degree and
whose work is consistent with the Guiding Principles for Evaluators
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=r9d-LVmrTJo). Also, in
2008 she was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from the American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and the
University of South Florida’s Hispanic Heritage Faculty Award. Her
peers have recognized her professional qualifications through
invitations to her to make presentations and serve in national and
international leadership roles in evaluation. She has been a
planning and control manager, and a consultant in the private
sector, non-profit organizations as well as institutions of higher
education. Her work history includes evaluations/metaevaluations in
multi-national corporations and capacity-building projects in Latin
America, the Philippines, and the United States.
Dr. Rodríguez has collaborated with
colleagues on several grants and she is currently the Co-Principal
Investigator and Director of Evaluation for a $2,331,104.00 U.S.
Department of Education grant. She has designed and delivered
numerous workshops and courses at the university level in
evaluation/metaevaluation, research, informatics, consulting,
project planning, and control management. She has written a variety
of publications in Spanish, English, and Chinese on leadership,
organizational engineering, and evaluation approaches that bring
stakeholder groups together. For example, she is the author of the
book Collaborative Evaluations: A Step-by-Step Model for the
Evaluator. In addition, she has presented her work in national
and international conferences in countries such as Australia,
Canada, China, Cuba, England, Greece, Holland, India, Italy,
Jamaica, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United
States, and Venezuela.
Dr. Rodríguez is a faculty member in
the Department of Educational Measurement and Research at the
University of South Florida. She is a member of several professional
associations such as Project Management Institute, American
Evaluation Association, Michigan Association for Evaluation, and
American Educational Research Association, among others. During five
years, she served as a co-chair of the Professional Development
Committee and as a board member at the Michigan Association for
Evaluation. Currently, she serves as the board of directors’ chair
at the Evaluation Capacity Development Group and as the program
chair of the Collaboration, Participatory, and Empowerment
Evaluation Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation
Association. Rodríguez’s expertise with leadership, metaevaluation,
multi-cultural and collaborative evaluation capacity building,
project management, organizational engineering, and training are her
strongest professional contributions.
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