Nancy E. Howell, Ed.D., MPH

Research Assistant Professor & Director

Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996

Education

• MPH (2003) The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• 1998-99 Higher Education Management Institute Wellesley College
  Wellesley, Massachusetts
• Ed. D. (1987) The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  Department of Educational Leadership
  Higher Education Administration
  Dissertation topic: A Comparative Analysis of Incentive Funding Methods Used in Higher Education
• M.S. (1981) The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  Department of Continuing and Higher Education
  Higher Education Administration
• B.A. (1974) Marshall University, Huntington, WV
  School of Journalism
  News-editorial Journalism

Current Position

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
• Director of Assessment, Dean's Office

Community Service

• Board of Directors, HALT - Humans and Animals Learning Together

Teaching

• Facilitator, Application-based Learning Exercise (ABLE), VM801, 802, 804, 805, 806

Research Interests

• Student outcomes assessment
• Program effectiveness assessment
• Formative teaching evaluation
• Curricular improvement through assessment methods
• Problem-based learning
• Public health: parallels between human and animal health care
• Disaster planning

Professional Memberships

• Association for Institutional Research
• American Association of Higher Education
• American Public Health Association
• Phi Zeta, National Honor Society of Veterinary Medicine
• Gamma Sigma Delta, Agriculture Honor Society
• Tennessee Public Health Association

Funded Grants

1. Development and Delivery of an Agricultural Vulnerability Assessment Training Course
   Project participant
   Department of Homeland Security
   Total award amount $4,342,664.00 Start date: 10/01/05 -09/30/07
   Effort commitment: % (person months 2.4 per 12-month academic year)
2. Pre-incident Credentialing TrainingProgram for Community Responders to an Agricultural Disaster
   Co-investigator
   Department of Homeland Security
   Total award amount $2,022,287.00 Start date: 10/01/05 -09/30/07
   Effort commitment 3% (person months 3.6 per 12-month academicyear)

Publications

• Howell NE, Lane IF, Brace J, Shull RM. Integration of PBL in a veterinary medical curriculum: first-year experiences with application-based learning exercises at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 29 (3), 2002, 169-175.
• Howell, NE. Assessing the outcome of Veterinary education. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 203 (2), 1993, 187.
• Frazier, DL and NE Howell. Women in the Veterinary Profession: A Survey by the University of Tennessee. The Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 18 (2) 1991,54-59.

Posters & abstracts

• Howell, NE, Shull, RM and Lane, IF. Vertical integration of PBL in a new veterinary curriculum. PBL 2000 Conference, Birmingham, AL, October 2000.
• Lane, IF, Howell, NE and Shull, RM. Ongoing program assessment during implementation of application-based learning exercises in a veterinary professional curriculum. PBL 2000 Conference, Birmingham, AL, October 2000.
• Lane IF, Howell NE, Rohrbach B. Student and faculty perceptions of the clinical rotation experience (abstr). J Vet Intern Med 14:372, May 2000.
• Lane IF, Howell NE, Rohrbach B. Student preparedness for clinical rotations: Student and faculty perceptions (abstr). J VetIntern Med 14:372, May 2000.
• Howell, Nancy E. and Fred Venditti. Incentive Funding in Higher Education: A Comparison of State Policies. Proceedings of the American Educational Research Association 1988 Annual Meeting.

Presentations

• Sims, M. and Howell, NE (pre-post survey data). Emerging technologies section: results of videoconferencing course survey. Annual meeting of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges and American Association of Veterinary Clinicians. Washington, D.C., Mar. 30-Apr. 2, 2001
• Howell, NE, Program Assessment in Graduate Professional Schools: The Role of Focus Groups and Other Methods for Curricular Improvement. American Association for Higher Education Assessment Conference, Denver, June 1999
• Howell, NE, The Use of Student Input to Assess the Effectiveness of Veterinary Medical Education. Poster presentation, American Association for Higher Education Assessment Conference, Boston, June 1995
• Howell, NE, Overview of UTCVM Assessment Program. Symposium on Outcomes Assessment in Veterinary Medical Education, Knoxville, TN,May 1993