Lori Collins-Hall has spent twenty-five years in higher education as a scholar-practitioner, engaging students in transformative learning opportunities and high-impact community engagement, including community-based service-learning, community evaluation research, coalition building, and work-based education. Most recently, Lori served as the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH. During her time at Antioch College, Lori supported the young institution through gaining regional accreditation, facilitated the College’s strategic planning process, and contributed to the development of Antioch’s ecological and agricultural focus. Prior to Antioch, Lori was a tenured faculty member, Chair of the Sociology Department, and Assessment Coordinator at Hartwick College.

Lori brings valuable experience in assessment and accreditation having led Antioch College’s successful and accelerated bid for accreditation, served on Hartwick’s self-study team, as a Middle States evaluator, and as an assessment consultant to multiple institutions. In September 2009 she was accepted for a prestigious fellowship as a Teagle Assessment Scholar, recognizing her significant contribution to assessment and program evaluation in higher education. In this role, and as a nationally recognized Teagle Assessment Scholar, she serves to promote and support institutional and program-level assessment on a national level.

Lori’s scholarship focuses on applied research for the purposes of creating change and exemplifies the links between theory and practice. Her early research examines the impact of domestic violence on children, culminating in the development of local programs to address the unique needs of child victims of domestic and partner violence. Her scholarship includes evaluation research projects for federal, state and local community not-for-profit and legal agencies in the areas of education, domestic violence, juvenile and family court, and juvenile drug prevention and rehabilitation.