Dr. Robert C. Albrecht This is Me

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1. 1. Consultants

   www.vacec.bev.net/rch_report/c - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/21/2007   Last Visited: 6/19/2008

   Robert Albrecht
   
   960 South Jackson Street Denver, CO 80209 (303) 744-9281 ralbrecht@idcomm.com
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   Bob Albrecht is Chancellor Emeritus of Western Governors University and a Senior Fellow at the EDUCAUSE Center for Academic Research (ECAR).He served on the faculty at the University of Chicago and at the University of Oregon.After holding positions of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost at Oregon, he became the Academic Vice President at the University of Northern Colorado and Deputy Commissioner for Academic Affairs in the Montana University System.He returned to the State of Colorado to become an Associate Vice President at the University of Colorado until he was asked to initiate the Western Governors University.He served in a senior capacity in that new institution becoming Chancellor before he retired.
   
   He has served on advisory committees to Harvard University, the U.S. Army, IBM and Regis University.He spent many years consulting to the Advanced Placement Program and the National Teachers Examination Program with ETS.He chaired the Oregon Committee on the Humanities and worked on many liaison committees in the state systems of Oregon, Montana and Colorado.
   
   Early in his career Dr. Albrecht became involved with outreach programs both as a faculty member and an administrator.Extension, community outreach, and distance learning became more central to his portfolio as he participated in formulating state networks, in leading developments in learning technology and on line learning.This work included a leadership role on the Steering Committee of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications.
   
   Recent publications have included chapters on distance learning and information technology as well as articles on university administration.Conference presentations and discussions have focussed on distributed learning and information technology.
   
   Bob continues to live in Denver, consulting and writing when he's not traveling or hiking, skiing or snowshoeing in the Colorado mountains.

2. 2. Annual Conference- General Info

   www.ula.org/conference/1998con - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/6/1998   Last Visited: 6/15/2008

   Presenter: Dr. Robert Albrecht, Chief Academic Officer, WGU

3. 3. Moving Beyond Student Aid

   www.brookingsinstitution.org/c - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/1/2000   Last Visited: 5/21/2004

   Bob Albrecht, head of the new Western Governors University, spoke of the potential for competency-based distance education in which both initial student capabilities and subsequent achievements are measured through standardized competency tests.