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Biography
Dr. Dyan L. Jones is Duquesne University’s Associate Provost for Assessment. In this role, she leads the University’s Assessment program, which evaluates and improves student learning and institutional effectiveness. Dr. Jones is also a key contributor to the institutional and programmatic accreditation processes. Dr. Jones’s research on student learning deeply informs her approach to assessment and helps center the idea of meaning-making as a critical component of educational effectiveness assessment. She is delighted to work with all of the nearly 200 academic programs that Duquesne offers.
Dr. Jones is highly experienced in assessment and accreditation. In a previous role of associate provost for institutional effectiveness, she oversaw all assessment, institutional accreditation, a wide variety of disciplinary and specialized accreditation, the registrar’s office, and the office for distance learning. She also has experience as dean of a school of natural and health sciences and a dean of global programming. Dr. Jones currently serves as a reviewer for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).
Dr. Jones is a physics educator with more than 15 years of experience teaching undergraduate coursework in foundational physics and upper-division courses including mechanics, optics and quantum physics. She has a particular affinity for helping non-scientists understand scientific reasoning, quantitative thinking and the interconnectedness of science and technology in our everyday lives, which has been expressed through a suite of liberal arts courses, long-term study abroad experiences and public lectures.
Dr. Jones remains engaged in the physics discipline in a variety of ways. She is a proud member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and currently serves as executive chair on its Board of Directors. She has also served as an editor for the PERC Proceedings, a reviewer for the American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher, a proposal and program reviewer for the National Science Foundation, and more.
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, Kansas State University
- M.S., Physics, Miami University
- B.S., Physics, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania