Trip Facilitators
Dr. Amy E. Lebo directs the Woodruff Scholars Program and Research Honors Program at Emory University in Atlanta.Previously, she spent ten years as the Honors Program Director and then Associate Dean of Honors and Scholars atBaldwin Wallace
University (BW) in Ohio. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Oregon and held facultystatus through full professor while at BW.
Dr. Lebo's career in higher education has focused on serving the needs of high achieving students through honors andscholars programs as well as undergraduate research programs and advising for national fellowships. Her strengths arein
the unification and assessment of program identity, learning outcomes, and student experiences. She believes thatthe greatest value of assessment is in deepening the intentionality and focus of our work with students, whether insideor
outside the classroom.
As a program reviewer since 2017 and the current chair of the NCHC Assessment and Evaluation Committee, Dr. Lebohas been instrumental in the creation of the new instruments and rubrics that align program review with the SharedPrinciples
and Practices. She has been on the receiving end of NCHC program reviews twice and has been a reviewerat six institutions.
Dr. Mary Khetani (she/her) is a beneficiary of an honors education at Marquette University that she credits for shapingher professional trajectory. She earned her M.A. in Occupational Therapy from University of Southern California andcompleted
her Sc.D. in Rehabilitation Sciences and postdoctoral training at Boston University.
As a skilled and accomplished pediatric occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist, she serves as a tenured fullprofessor, director of the Children's Participation in Environment Research Lab that routinely provides mentoredresearch
training to talented and committed honors undergraduates, and director of a PhD program in RehabilitationSciences at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) that routinely interfaces with applicants and students who haveexperienced an
honors education.
For the past decade, Dr. Khetani has served as a faculty fellow, award-winning capstone supervisor, executive councilmember, and visiting associate dean for undergraduate research in the Honors College at UIC. Dr. Khetani's hasexperiences
with development of promising patient-reported outcome measures, needs assessment for continuousquality improvement, and high-quality mentoring practices for optimal student experiences. Dr. Khetani is beginning hersecond year as member
of the NCHC Assessment and Evaluation and Awards Committees.
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