Kara DuQuette
Artist, Educator & Scholar
Dedicated to excellence in my work, I advise and coordinate administrators, community partners, faculty, staff, and students in immersive learning projects using skillful, clear, and frequent communication.
Contact me:
Email: kcduquette@bsu.edu
Phone number: +1 (765) 285 2789
About me
I am a qualified university professional with years of experience in academia. I am organized and detail-oriented and possess strong interpersonal skills. I have a wide knowledge base and am extremely adaptable, affable, efficient, and versatile. I enjoy meeting people and developing relationships. I have made meaningful friendships all over the world.
Experience
MArch 2019 to present
Project Manager
Ball State University, Immersive Learning
Plan, direct and manage all aspects of immersive learning projects facilitated through the Office of Immersive Learning; promote immersive learning programs on campus to faculty and students and off-campus to potential community partners and alums; assisted the Director of Immersive Learning in programming and executing immersive learning events and showcases.
- Facilitate immersive learning projects with campus and community partners; meet with potential community partners to assess needs and evaluate the potential for student teams to address those needs.
- Recruit potential faculty mentors for immersive learning projects; meet regularly with faculty to determine interests and possible matches with community partners.
- Assist faculty in developing plans for project execution, including proposal development, identification of internal and external funding sources, implementation strategies, and assessment of outcomes.
- Assist faculty mentors in recruiting and selecting students for immersive learning project teams.
- Manage budgets for assigned immersive learning projects; work with the department administrative coordinator on purchasing, travel, and other operational aspects of assigned immersive learning projects.
- Support the Director in developing and executing professional development seminars for faculty who do immersive learning or are interested in immersive learning.
- Support the Director in tracking assessment information and project/program outcomes; administer core competency assessments and surveys as necessary on assigned projects.
- Engage a wide variety of campus constituencies in promoting immersive learning and all project and program-related activities.
- Provide orientation sessions and development sessions as necessary to student participants.
- Promote and market the immersive learning program and projects in cooperation with Departmental and Strategic Communications staff.
- Plan, execute, and promote the immersive learning showcase.
MaRCH 216 to March 2019
Project Coordinator
- Assist with organizing, planning, and implementing Immersive Learning programs, including serving on planning committees, coordinating events and training sessions, and serving as point-of-contact for faculty and their external partners, including association leadership and business
- Support the Director of Immersive Learning, project manager, and project activities, including recruiting faculty and students for programs, processing client contracts, preparing invoices, managing the student enrollment process, and maintaining project
- Write copy, create PowerPoint presentations, update the website, and design and produce promotional materials such as flyers, postcards, and communication center
- Assist with planning and implementing faculty and student professional development programs, including planning and coordinating faculty information sessions and creating materials for general information
- Support ongoing projects for Immersive Learning and its faculty mentors, including processing EPAFs, Kronos, and other personnel-related functions in Banner, purchasing items to assist with project operations, and coordinating travel requests and other
- Monitor multiple project budgets, prepare accounting records, and communicate with faculty and students about account
- Assist Director of Immersive Learning in tracking assessment information and creating report summaries for program outcomes; includes administering student assessments, tracking participant demographics, coordinating workshop evaluation efforts, and summarizing quantitative evaluations of students, faculty, and external
- Supervise student workers, including assigning and reviewing work, orienting, and training student staff, recommending interviews and selection processes, performance appraisals, and discipline.
May 2009 to March 2016
Program Coordinator
Ball State University, Intensive English Institute
Served as a resource for the Intensive English Institute (IEI); by creating, integrating, maintaining and monitoring IEI systems and practices; communicating information to students, faculty, administrators and partner universities.
- Serve as a resource for the Intensive English Institute (IEI); created, integrated, maintained, and monitored IEI systems and
- Communicate information to students, faculty, administrators, and partner
- Serve as a resource for Intensive English Institute (IEI) students and faculty regarding various issues; includes questions about student advising, acculturation, and educational
- Create and maintain IEI
- Create statistical reports regarding IEI demographics, including placements and
- Prepare IEI student advising information, including grades, class schedules, and
- Serve as a resource for the Intensive English Institute (IEI); created, integrated, maintained, and monitored IEI systems and
- Communicate information to students, faculty, administrators, and partner
- Serve as a resource for Intensive English Institute (IEI) students and faculty regarding various issues; includes questions about student advising, acculturation, and educational
August 1999 to AUGUST 2008
Office Manager and Assistant to the Chair
Columbia College Chicago, Educational Studies department
Offered administrative support to the Chair and maintained office services and served as a resource for the Educational Studies Graduate Programs and constituents.
- Offer support for the Chair, maintain office services, and serve as a resource for the Educational Studies Graduate Programs and
- Provide administrative assistance to the chair, program coordinators, and full time and part-time faculty of the Educational Studies
- Manage departmental budget information, including grant monies awarded to the department graduate programs and budget
- Hire and supervise a team of 5 student employees and part-time
- Create a master course schedule, including classroom assignments for students, faculty, and program coordinators, in consultation with the
- Organized and attended departmental meetings and assisted in organizing department-sponsored functions and
- Serve as a liaison to the college bookstore, preparing and monitoring all arrangements for selecting textbooks and orders each
- Assist in the research and preparation of departmental reports and
- Assist program coordinators in recruiting candidates to the MA and MAT programs.
Education
May 2023
Doctor of Education
- Adult, Community and Higher Education
Ball State University
SUmmer 2019
Dual Master of Education
- Adult, Community and Higher Education
- Executive Development for Public Service
Ball State University
FAll 2006 - 2008
- Arts Entertainment and Media Management Graduate Program
Columbia College Chicago
spring 1999
- BFA
- Art K-12 Education Teaching Certificate
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Skills & Abilities
Active Listener Leader
Artist Lifelong Learner
Collaborative Mediator
Critical Thinker Problem Solver
Curious Responsible Digital Citizen
Deft Communicator Strategic Thinker
Education Technologically Literate
Empathetic Teacher
Awards
Community-Engaged Alliance 2023 Community Engagement Professional Award
Immersive Learning Project Manager Receives 2023 Community Engagement Professional Award
Engagement Scholarship Consortium Staff Engagement Award
Accomplishments & Associations
BSU IGD Training
2021
Intergroup Dialogue is a face-to-face conversation between members of two or more social identity groups centered around a topic under the umbrella of social justice, equity, and inclusion.
The goal of intergroup dialogue is to create a new level of understanding, relating, and action.
By exploring social identities, intergroup dialogue helps create an understanding of the ways that social and systemic structures promote privilege and inequality. Participating in intergroup dialogue creates strong relationships across differences through the development of empathy and bridge-building. Intergroup Dialogue promotes intergroup collaboration and a shared sense of personal and social responsibility.
For more information about Intergroup Dialogue at Ball State University click here
P.E.O International
2020 - present Muncie Chapter Member
P.E.O. was founded on January 21, 1869, by seven students at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. This circle of kindred spirits – bonded by their enthusiasm for women's opportunities – eventually expanded to include women off campus as well. Through membership, the P.E.O. Sisterhood has brought together more than a half a million women in the United States and Canada who are passionate about helping women advance through education, while supporting and motivating them.
Friendship is the cornerstone of P.E.O. – it is the legacy left by our Founders and it thrives in our unique Sisterhood. P.E.O. exists to be a source of encouragement and support for women to realize their potential in whatever worthwhile endeavor they choose.
True to the mission of promoting educational opportunities for women, education continues to be the primary philanthropy of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. In fact, the P.E.O. Sisterhood proudly sponsors six international philanthropies, or projects, designed to assist women with their educational goals.
Indiana Campus Compact BSU Liaison
2021 - present
Appointed by President Mearns
ICC Liaison Appointees will be part of a statewide community engagement network that leverages knowledge, connections, and resources, which combined with Indiana Campus Compact partnership benefits becomes a change-making powerhouse for students and communities throughout the state of Indiana.
BSU Black Faculty and Staff Association
2020 - present
Officer - Community Engagement Liaison
BFSA The Vision of the Black Faculty and Staff Association is to continually enhance the welfare of the individuals who identify as Black or with the Black experience at Ball State University.
The Mission of the Black Faculty and Staff Association shall be to influence university (educational, administrative, personnel, and student) policies and practices, as well as build community and affinity for individuals who identify as Black or with the Black experience at Ball State University.
PHI KAPPA PHI Honor Society
Membership CURRENT
PHI KAPPA PHI is an honor society established in 1897 to recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others. Membership is by invitation only to graduate students who have achieved the scholarly distinction of being at the top 10 percent of their class.
Golden Key Honour Society
2018 Lifetime Membership
Golden Key is the world's largest collegiate honour society. Membership into the Society is by invitation only and applies to the top 15% of college and university sophomores, juniors and seniors, as well as top-performing graduate students in all fields of study, based solely on their academic achievements. Golden Key Honour Society exists to unlock and enliven excellence within our members. With a unique focus on the areas of Academics, Leadership and Service, we are a society of support, of community, of vision and of promise. Golden Key wants to assist you in achieving your person, professional and altruistic goals.
Simplexity Thinking System Training
2016 & 2017
The Simplexity Thinking System is the "innovation engine" of the organization. It interconnects a process of creative problem solving with skills and tools to make that process work. The system is simple, experiential, inclusive and is proven to work. A Simplexity Thinking group application session begins with a fuzzy situation being an undefined problem or situation. Thinking focuses a group through problem formulation to solution implementation using eight clear steps. The key process skill used by participants in the Simplexity Thinking process is the deferral of judgment. If you can't defer judgment, simply suspend it long enough to explore. Some problems seem to be more fuzzy than others. Through session work solutions emerge and some initially perceived fuzzy situations become clear and not problematic at all.
Crucial Conversations Training & Certificate
2017
Crucial Conversations transform people and relationships. they are anything but transacted; they create an entirely new level of bonding. They produce, not a compromise between two opposites on a straight-line continuum, but a higher middle way, like the apex of a triangle. Because two or more people have created something new from genuine dialog, bonding takes place. When you produce something with someone that is truly creative, it is one of the most powerful bonds there is. The sequential development of subject matter moves you from understanding the celestial power of dialogue, to clarifying what you really want to have happen and focusing on what actually is happening, to creating conditions of safety, to using self-awareness and self-knowledge. You learn how to achieve such a level of mutual understanding and creative synergy that people are emotionally willing and committed to effectively implementing them. You come from creating the right mind and heart-set to developing and utilizing the right skillset.
BSU Computer Science Art Show Judge
2016 - 2023
Computer Science 120 students learn programing fundamentals through a "Multimedia-First" approach to combining images. Students display both the images they produced and the code they wrote (using the Python programming language) to create their images. Although the images could have been created using an image-editing program, these students have written the code themselves to create these collages programmatically by manipulating individual pixels. Beyond being an exhibit of the collages selected from each section of the course, we also have a panel of judges evaluate each entry, with the best entries being recognized.
References
SUzanne plesha
(Retired May 2022) Director of the Office of Immersive Learning, Ball State University.
765-729-2870 ▪️splesha@bsu.edu
Jennifer Blackmer
Director of the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry and Professor of Theatre, Ball State University
765-285-2783 ▪️jsblackmer@bsu.edu
Sarah Vitale
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ball State University
765-285-1247 ▪️sevitale@bsu.edu
Dave Largent
Associate Lecturer of Computer Science, Ball State University
765-285-8641 ▪️dllarent@bsu.edu
Let's work together.
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