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Chris Rhoda Named to NEASC
Evaluation Team
Waterville, Maine ---
April, 2004
Christopher Rhoda, Vice President for Information Technology Services at
Thomas College of Waterville, Maine, has been selected by the New England
Association of Schools and Colleges (NESC) to serve on a ten year
re-accreditation evaluation team. The NEASC team to which Rhoda has been
appointed will visit Teikyo Post University of Waterbury, Connecticut from
October 24 through 27th.
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)
is a non-governmental, nationally recognized organization whose affiliated
institutions include elementary schools through collegiate institutions
offering post-graduate instruction. Professionals from NEASC member schools
are selected to participate in the accreditation and re-accreditation
process.
I am pleased with this opportunity to serve NEASC, an
organization that is so instrumental in maintaining quality education
standards for schools and colleges across New England, noted Rhoda. For
the past year, Thomas has been involved in its own ten year re-accreditation
process. I found the overall process to be enlightening and highly
beneficial to the institution.
During the re-accreditation process at Thomas, Rhoda
served on the re-accreditation steering committee that produced a written
report and hosted a NEASC evaluation team.
A Thomas graduate, in 1998 Rhoda developed the first
web-based administrative information system used by a college or
university. The innovative system, which was created in-house, used
Microsoft and Solutions IQ products and computer programs written by Rhoda
and his staff. The system led Microsoft Corporation to issue a case study
in 1999. Officials from the company confirmed at that time that the Thomas
system was the first of its kind.
Rhoda has been a featured presenter at a number of
national and regional education conferences, most recently offering a
presentation entitled Application-Level Firewalls at the 2004 Innovations in
Higher Education Conference held from March 14 through 16 in Orlando,
Florida.
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