Julie Foertsch

Current

• Director of Evaluation at UW School of Medicine & Public Health
• President at Leading Edge Evaluation & Consulting

Past

• Director at LEAD Center, UW-Madison

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Northwestern University

Connections

14 connections

Industry

Higher Education

Julie Foertsch’s Summary

Professional evaluator since 1996 who helps educators and non-profit administrators improve their curricula, programs, and organizations through formative and summative evaluation. Has worked on projects funded at the state and federal level and has written and reviewed multiple successful grant proposals for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Julie Foertsch’s Specialties:

Education & Outreach Program Evaluation; Curriculum Evaluation; Diversity Issues in Science & Technology; Social Science Research; Memory & Cognition; Psycholinguistics

Julie Foertsch’s Experience

• Director of Evaluation

  UW School of Medicine & Public Health

  (Higher Education industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Evaluates courses and grant-funded education programs for the Medical School and other UW-Madison entities

• President

  Leading Edge Evaluation & Consulting

  (Higher Education industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Evaluation of education, outreach, and training programs for schools, non-profits, and businesses nationwide.

• Director

  LEAD Center, UW-Madison

  (Higher Education industry)

  July 1996 — June 2006 (10 years )

  Senior Researcher and Director of a university-based evaluation research center

Julie Foertsch’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Ph.D. , Cognitive Psychology , 1992 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Experimental Psychology TA; Research Assistant for Morton Gernsbacher's Language Comprehension Lab; Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow; Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow

• Northwestern University

  BS , Psychology , 1986 — 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Track and Cross Country teams; Presidential Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa; James Alton James Scholar; Summa Cum Laude