Past Forums

2005 Ohio Student Research Forum
August 10-11, University of Akron

SPEAKER
Dr. Elizabeth J. Stroble, Senior Vice President and Provost
Chief Operating Officer
Unviersity of Akron

Dr. Elizabeth J. Stroble was named The University of Akron Senior Vice President and Provost and Chief Operating Officer in June 2003. Prior to that appointment, she served as dean and tenured professor of the College of Education from September 2000. She continued as dean until June 2004, and remains a tenured professor in the college.

A national consultant on the topic of performance-based accreditation, Stroble’s research interests are leadership, school and teacher education reform, technology, and English education. She has secured more than $1.97 million in external grants and contracts for the College of Education since July 2001. In addition, Stroble has secured grants for her own scholarship, school-university partnerships and teacher-enhancement activities from national professional organizations, government agencies, foundations, and corporations. Her research has appeared in papers and publications focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her co-edited book “Multiple Literacies for the 21 st Century” was published in 2004.

Prior to coming to Akron, Stroble was the associate dean and a professor of the school of education at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY starting in 1995. While there, Stroble also oversaw two school wide centers and directed assessment and distance education initiatives. She also served as a member of the University of Louisville’s Board for the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, Distance Education Task Force and the English department’s Watson Conference Planning Committee. Stroble serves on the board of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and was an on-site host for board examiners training of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in 2003. Stroble provides statewide leadership as a member of the board for Ohio Learns, chair of the OhioLINK board, co-chair of the Ohio Board of Regents’ Teacher Education Transfer Articulation Guide Task Force, and chair of the Inter-University Council’s Provosts’ Group. In 2003, she received Northern Ohio Live’s Rainmaker Award and was named one of 500 Distinguished Women in Northeast Ohio. In 2004 she was a finalist for Inside Business’s Athena Award. While dean of UA’s College of Education, Stroble helped establish interdisciplinary collaborations, such as the Center for Collaboration and Inquiry, the Muehlstein Academy for Mathematics and Science, and the Center for Literacy. She oversaw the college’s review by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. The outcome of the review was so positive that the college has become a national model.

Stroble earned a bachelor’s of arts in history and English in 1972 from Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. She earned a master of arts in history in 1979, and a master of arts in American and English literature in 1984, both from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Stroble received her doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1987.