July 18, 2008
Hezel Associates Hires International Education Expert
In an expansion of its international research capacity, Hezel Associates hired José A. Cossa, Ph.D. Cossa joined Hezel Associates in May as a research analyst for higher education. He has more than ten years of experience in higher education and public affairs, with interdisciplinary and international approaches to his research. Click here for the full release.
June 30, 2008
Hezel Associates Share Expertise in Teacher Professional Development at State Educational Technology Directors Meeting
Hezel Associates, the firm recognized nationally for its customized education research, will participate in the roundtable, Empowering Teachers: A Professional and Collaborative Approach, on Tuesday, July 1, at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). The discussion, hosted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), will gather thought leaders from around the country to develop an issue paper on teacher professional development for the Class 20/20 Action Plan for Education series. Click here for the full release.
December 10, 2007
Hezel Associates Gains Ground in 2007 Fast Track 50 Rankings
Hezel Associates jumped four spots in the ranking this year, up from 12th last year and 13th in 2005. This is the third year in a row that the Fast Track 50 program has recognized Hezel Associates for its outstanding growth as a company. Click here for the full release.
August 16, 2007
Arizona Articulation and Transfer System Promotes Success
A fully-developed articulation and transfer system in Arizona helps transfer students graduate nearly a full semester early and could save taxpayers money, according to a report released by Hezel Associates, a leading education research firm. Click here for the full release.
August 1, 2007
Hezel Associates Hires Kinne and DelSavio as Growth Continues
Hezel Associates, the Syracuse-based, nationally recognized educational research and consulting firm, hired Sandra T. Kinne and Katherine DelSavio to meet the needs of the constantly expanding business. Since January of 2007, the firm has increased its full-time staff by 38 percent in response to new contracts for Hezel services. Click here for the full release.
May 31, 2007
School-level Administrators Exhibit Strong Influence on Teacher Professional Development, According to National Suvey
Superintendents, principals and teachers indicate school-based sources of funding and influence on teacher professional development, according to a PBS TeacherLine report released by Hezel Associates, a nationally recognized education research firm. Click here for the full release. | Read the PBS TeacherLine National Survey of Teacher Professional Development report.
May 24, 2007
National Survey Finds High Level of School-Based Authority in District Decisions about Teacher Professional Development
Evidence points to a shift from district- to school-level control of planning and purchasing teacher professional development, according to a PBS TeacherLine report released by Hezel Associates, a nationally recognized education research firm.
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February 22, 2007
Hezel Associates Hires Elena Koneva for International Education Research
Koneva is one of three new hires at Hezel Associates since December. She joined the Strategic Sertices Team in December as a research associate. Kovena will apply her knowledge of the global, political economy to the business and economics of the education industry, concentrating on international research. Click here for the full release.
February 22, 2007
Hezel Associates Expands its Presence in New York City and Promotes Evaluation Assistant
Yusaitis was hired September 2006 as a research assistant in Evaluation. She was promoted Feb.
9 to project coordinator. Her new responsibilities involve writing quarterly reports, delegating
responsibilities and managing the databases for PBS Channel Thirteen/WNET Project VITAL
and ProLiteracy Worldwide. Click here for the full release.
February 22, 2007
Hezel Associates Hires Anna Piacentini Lacher for Research, Evaluation and Project Logistics Support
Lacher is one of three new hires at Hezel Associates since December. She became a project coordinator for the Evaluation Team in January. In her role at Hezel Associates, she contributes to data collection, analysis and report writing, and handles participant contact and web communications for the New York City iTeach-iLearn Initiative...click here for the full release.
February 22, 2007
Hezel Associates Hires Erika Blackburn to assist with PBS TeacherLine Project
Blackburn is one of three new hires at Hezel Associates since December. She began her position as a research associate for the Evaluation Team in January. With more than seven years of experience as a researcher, evaluator and instructor, her responsibilities at Hezel Associates include...click here for the full release.
February 16, 2007
Distance Learning Leaders Address Increased Demand for Performance Measures
Higher education institutions are looking for new ways to meet the changing demands of their students and the governing bodies that create education policies—the distance learning community is no exception. Click here for the full release.
December 11, 2006
Hezel Associates Climbs Ranks of 2006 Fast Track 50
The Central New York Business Journal ‘s Fast Track 50 for the second year in a row recognized Hezel Associates, the Syracuse-based firm known nationally for its customized education research, as a company to watch. Hezel Associates jumped up one spot this year, ranking twelfth among companies under $10 million. Click here for the full release.
November 1, 2006
Three States Contract with Hezel Associates
Hezel Associates, LLC, the nationally recognized firm for customized education research, won three contracts in the past six weeks totaling nearly $1 million in new business. From pools of applicants, The Texas Education Agency, the Ohio Department of Education and the Arizona Board of Regents chose Hezel Associates to fulfill challenging research requirements for statewide programs. Click
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October 20, 2006
Hezel Associates Receives Economic Champions Award
For the fourth year in a row, Hezel
Associates received an Economic Champions
of Central New York award. The Economic Champions
award, sponsored by The Greater Syracuse Chamber
of Commerce, recognizes businesses that had a positive
affect on Central New York’s economic development
throughout the past year. Click
here for the full release.
August 8 , 2006
Storandt Named Research and Evaluation Manager
Hezel Associates promoted Barbara C.
Storandt to Research and Evaluation Manager this
month. In her new position, Storandt will manage
the evaluation process for VITAL, a set of instructional
resources developed by Hezel Associates’ client
PBS Channel Thirteen WNET. Click
here for the full release.
August 1, 2006
New Statewide Study Examines Link Between Customized Learning Plans and Student Achievement
The project, Video in Teaching and Learning (VITAL), provides teachers in grades three through eight with video-based instructional resources developed by PBS Channel Thirteen/WNET New York. As a qualified external evaluator, Hezel Associates will measure the outcomes and the impact of VITAL through a study of fourth- and fifth-grade teachers using the instructional resources. Click here for the full release. | Click here to learn more about VITAL study.
June 13, 2006
NUTN 2006 Award Recipients Named
The National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) announced the 2006 recipients of its annual awards Monday at NUTN 2006 in Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Diana G. Oblinger was the selected recipient of the NUTN Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by NUTN. Click here for the full release.
June 12, 2006
Quality Assessment for Distance Learning Leaders Just Got Easier - IQAT Debuts at NUTN 2006
In a move sure to alter the way distance education measures quality, the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN), Hezel Associates and Cisco Systems today released an innovative tool for quality assessment.
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June 5, 2006
Follow the Distance Learning Leader
How can higher education cope with escalating demands for institutional accountability?
Ask the distance educators.
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May 11, 2006
Hezel Associates Expands New England Presence
Hezel Associates is pleased to announce
the addition of Frances Hurley, Ed.D. to its
staff. In her new position as Director
of Research Development, Dr. Hurley will be responsible
for the development and oversight of evaluation
and strategic services projects. Click
here for the full release.
April 5, 2006
Rochester City School District and SUNY Brockport Look to Unite to Better Student Learning
Collaboration between Rochester City School District’s (RCSD) Frederick Douglass Preparatory School and SUNY Brockport for an Early College High School (ECHS) may come to fruition in 2007. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded RCSD with a planning grant to assist the evaluation of a potential ECHS program in Rochester, NY.
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April 5, 2006
Wang and Ford Join Hezel Associates As Company Continues to Grow
Li Wang and Bryan Ford joined Hezel Associates, a consulting firm for the education sector in Syracuse, NY, in response to growing needs of the company. Click here for the full release.
February 14, 2006
How Universities Can Utilize Customer Relationship Management
Hezel Associates Team Presents at Higher Education Marketing Seminar on Applying CRM Principles in a University Setting
Hezel Associates Marketing & Communications Manager Betsy Bedigian and Chief Strategic Consultant for Hezel Associates Shari Treichler will present on how universities can apply Customer Relationship Management (CRM) principles to maintain long-term relationships that meet the needs of alumni well beyond their college years. Click here for the full release.
February 3, 2006
Mitchell promoted at Hezel Associates
As manager of special projects, Mitchell is responsible for the National University Telecommunications Network-Hezel Associates Distance Learning Benchmarking Study and the development of IQAT, the Interactive Quality Assessment Tool. Click here for the full release.
January 25, 2006
Mangan joins Hezel Associates, Reed Promoted
Mangan is Hezel Associates’ newest Marketing, Design and Research Assistant. She is responsible for the design of print, electronic and Web media for the Marketing Department. She will also provide research assistance for special projects at Hezel Associates. Click here for the full release.
November 21, 2005
Fast Track 50 Honors Hezel Associates with
2005 Award
The
Central New York Business Journal’s Fast
Track 50 names Hezel Associates one of the 50 fastest-growing
companies in Central New York this past November. The
Central New York Business Journal will publish
a special section on December 2 to honor the winners,
and it will host an awards luncheon at the Oncenter
on December 6. Click
here for the full release.
October 27, 2005
Hezel Associates Receives Economic Champions of Central New York
Award
Hezel
Associates, a consulting firm for the education sector,
received an Economic Champions of Central New York
award for the third year in a row. The Economic Champions
award is sponsored by the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce
and it recognizes businesses, large and small, that
positively added to the economic development of Central
New York during the past twelve months. Click
here for the full release.
October 17, 2005
PBS TeacherLine Experiment Reveals Online Professional
Development Courses Change Teachers’ Attitudes
PBS TeacherLine’s online professional development
courses impacted teachers’ beliefs in the value
of reformed instructional practices, the first step
to improved student learning, according to results
of a year-long experiment conducted by Hezel Associates.
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for the full release.
October 14, 2005
Storandt joins Hezel Associates
Hezel Associates is pleased to announce that Barbara
Storandt has joined the firm as a research associate.
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for the full release.
October 12, 2005
Grossman Joins Hezel Associates
Dr. Steven Grossman has joined Hezel
Associates as its newest Strategic Planning Consultant. Grossman
comes to Hezel Associates after 35 years working
in public education, most recently as assistant superintendent
at OCM BOCES, and entering private consulting in
2004. Click
here for the full release.
October 10, 2005
Hezel Associates’ New Contracts Bring $8 Million
in New Revenue and Jobs to Central New York
Hezel Associates expects to increase its workforce
by 25 percent after being contracted to conduct two
multi-year evaluations. Funded by the U.S. Department
of Education’s Ready to Teach program, new contracts
with PBS TeacherLine (Washington, DC) and WNET TV
(New York, NY) will bring more than $8 million in
revenue to the firm over the next five years. Click
here
for the full release.
July 19, 2005
Studies in Two States will Inform All
Districts on Effectiveness of Improvement Programs
School districts nationwide struggle with poor student
achievement levels, and most have implemented programs
to combat the problem. New contracts with the educational
consulting firm Hezel Associates will make it possible
for states to effectively measure their efforts to
improve student performance. Hezel Associates’
study on programs implemented in underperforming schools
in two states will inform all districts with similar
programs seeking evaluation tools. Click here
for the full release.
July 19, 2005
Hezel Associates to Evaluate Statewide
External Review Team Program
The persistent variation in academic outcomes across
South Carolina’s public schools concerns the
state’s Education Oversight Committee, whose
responsibility is to take steps to improve student
performance. As a key component of the state’s
overall accountability strategy, the South Carolina
External Review Team (ERT) Program has provided targeted
technical assistance to underperforming schools and
districts since 2001. To determine the effectiveness
of the External Review Team Program’s intervention
strategy, the state engaged the education consulting
firm Hezel Associates to conduct a comprehensive program
evaluation. Click here
for the full release.
June 13, 2005
Higher Education Consortium Reports Findings of National
Benchmarking Intiative
Benchmarking for quality in distance learning remains
inconsistent across post-secondary institutions. Dr.
Richard T. Hezel, president of the education consulting
firm Hezel Associates, with the support of the National
University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) today
released the initial findings of the Benchmarking
for Quality in Distance Learning study. The study
found that 54 percent of participants use benchmarking
to measure their institutions' distance learning programs
against those at similar institutions. Among those
who report benchmarking, few similarities exist in
the types of data being benchmarked, or the types
of institutions against which they benchmark. Click
here
for the full release.
June 13, 2005
NUTN 2005 Recognizes Outstanding Achievement in Technology
Enhanced Education at Annual Event
The National University Telecommunications Network
(NUTN), today honored John Chambers, president and
CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc., with the Distinguished
Service Award 2005 at a ceremony in conjunction with
the NUTN 2005 Annual Event. NUTN presented the J.
O. Grantham Leadership Award to Pamela Quinn, president
of the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications
in recognition of her demonstrated leadership qualities
and contributions to technology enhanced education.
Awards were also presented to individuals or organizations
for Distinguished Education Innovation, Excellence
in Teleconferencing, and Best Research Paper. The
Annual Awards program acknowledges the innovation
and accomplishments in technology enhanced learning,
highlighting individuals, educators, and organizations
who have achieved distinction in the field. Click
here
for the full release.
Three key variables driving the U.S. education
export to the rapidly-growing Asian e-learning market
are government reform, technology and the English language,
according to Hezel Associates, a consulting firm for
the education sector. These findings are detailed in
Hezel Associates’ report, Global E-learning Opportunity
for U.S. Higher Education. Click here
for the full release.
The National University Telecommunications Network
(NUTN), a consortium of over 50 higher education institutions,
and Hezel Associates, a consulting firm for the education
sector, today announced the launch of a longitudinal
benchmarking study focused on quality in distance learning.
The research is being conducted to better define the
measurements of quality in distance learning and develop
a set of tools universities and colleges can use to
collect internal data for comparison within specific
peer groupings or institutions in general.
With more than one in four schools in New Hampshire
scoring at the lowest level of proficiency on third-grade
reading tasks in 2004, a great demand for effective
early reading instruction exists. To determine whether
New Hampshire’s Reading First Program helps improve
children’s early literacy skills, education consulting
firm Hezel Associates will conduct a four-year evaluation
of the statewide program. Click
here for complete release.
Hezel Associates, a consulting firm for the education
sector, today announced the top three countries most
receptive to the U.S. education export. South Korea,
Japan, and Germany placed at the top of the list, based
on criteria including population, technology, education,
economics and the English language. Click here
for complete release.
With distance learning slated as the fastest-growing
sub-sector of a $2.3 trillion global education market,
all eyes are on quality. International e-learning leaders
Dr. Richard T. Hezel, president of the U.S. education
consulting firm Hezel Associates, Dr. Sally M. Johnstone,
founding director of WCET, and Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers,
University of Duisburg-Essen presented their vision
for quality standards in e-learning during a LEARNTEC
workshop February 15 titled “E-learning Quality:
An Exchange of Visions Between Europe and North America.”
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for the complete release.
