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• Rigoberto Rincones earned his Ph.D. in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design at Western Michigan University (WMU). He received an Outstanding Dissertation Award, and a WMU Provost's Special Recognition for his doctoral work. He earned his Bac...More

  Rigoberto Rincones earned his Ph.D. in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design at Western Michigan University (WMU). He received an Outstanding Dissertation Award, and a WMU Provost's Special Recognition for his doctoral work. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and his Specialist and Master's degrees in Project Management in Engineering with Summa Cum Laude Honors. He received a WMU President's Special Recognition for his second Master's degree in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design. Dr. Rincones has been awarded with several honors and educational scholarships both in Latin America and the United States. He has been a training manager and a consultant in the private sector, non-profit organizations as well as in institutions of higher education. Dr. Rincones's work history includes formative evaluation of multi-national corporations and evaluation capacity-building projects in Latin America, the Philippines and the United States. Dr. Rincones has designed and delivered numerous workshops and courses at the university level in evaluation, research, technology, project management, and assessment. He has authored a variety of publications in Spanish and in English on leadership, organizational engineering, and evaluation approaches that bring stakeholder groups together. He has presented his work in national and international conferences in countries such as Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, England, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, the United States and Venezuela. Until June of 2006, Dr. Rincones worked as the Director of the Institutional Research and Assessment Office, at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He has been a member of the Association for Institutional Research, Michigan Association for Institutional Research, American Evaluation Association, Michigan Association for Evaluation, and American Educational Research Association, among others. Additional appointments include Vice-Chair of the Michigan Association of Institutional Research (MI/AIR); Member of the Michigan Community College Data and Evaluation Committee (MCCDEC); and reviewer of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum’s Track #6 (The Practice of Institutional Research: Theory, Techniques, Technologies, Tools, and Ethics). Dr. Rincones's expertise with institutional research, assessment, capacity building, program evaluation and metaevaluation are his strongest professional interests. Currently Dr. Rincones works as Program Director at MDC, Inc. where he leads the data facilitation Component for the Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count initiative. Achieving the Dream is a multiyear national initiative to help more community college students succeed (earn degrees, earn certificates or transfer to other institutions to continue their studies). He also works in partnership with the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida to train data facilitators and serves as a data facilitator himself. He is responsible for drawing lessons learned from the data facilitators' experiences and working with a national team of Achieving the Dream partners to develop strategies to spread Achieving the Dream policies and practices. Less

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