McDonough Prof. Appointed to MCL Panel

Lynn Doran, Professor at the McDonough School of Business, has been appointed as one of the 15 faculty panelist for discussing business education the 2015 Measuring College Learning (MCL) Project. The MCL is bringing together faculty from six critical fields of study — biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology — to reach consensus on how schools can effectively measure their students’ achievement.

According to the Project website, MCL is dedicated to the following core principles:

• Faculty should be at the center of defining and developing transparent learning outcome standards for undergraduates.
• Students from all backgrounds and institutions should be given a fair opportunity to demonstrate their skills when transferring from one institution to another and when transitioning into the workforce.
• Measures of student learning should be rigorous and high-quality and should yield data that allow for comparisons over time and between institutions.
• Assessment tools should be used by institutions on a voluntary basis.
• Any single measure of student learning should be part of a larger holistic assessment plan.

Doran has been a faculty member at Georgetown McDonough since 1998, where she teaches finance and is the faculty advisor to the Financial Management Association, an organization for aspiring financial managers in the undergraduate program. In 2010, she received Georgetown University’s Dorothy Brown Award, given each year to the professor who is voted as the best professor by undergraduates.

She is also no stranger to panels. According to her profile on the McDOnough website, Doran has hosted numerous financial professionals on Georgetown’s campus. The “Careers in Capital Markets” panel discussion and networking reception is held each September. In 2013, the panel included representatives from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Morgan Stanley. Professor Doran has also planned and hosted the “Women on Wall Street” panel discussion and networking reception each January for the past five years. The 2013 panel included representatives from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Morgan Stanley.

For more information about MCL, visit www.ssrc.org/programs/measuring-college-learning/

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