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Statewide Advisory Committee--Business Education
A committee representing teachers, businessmen and businesswomen, Education for Employment (EFE) directors, post-secondary educators in business, the Illinois State Board of Education, and staff from the Illinois Office of Educational Services met on May 11, 2006, to discuss the state of business education in the State of Illinois.
Members of this committee listened to research data gathered from the State of the Art paper in business and examined the need for business education in the State of Illinois. They unanimously agreed that business education is essential training for secondary students and that a revitalized curriculum in business education is needed.
Through round-table discussions and reporting out to the group as a whole, many areas were identified where the curriculum needs to be revitalized. Infusing rigor, relevance, and relationship, they recommended the highly successful Agricultural Education curriculum model for this project to pursue.

Below is a list of those individuals who participated in this committee.
ISBE Personnel
  • Uhe, Roger, Principal Consultant, Illinois State Board of Education

EFE System Directors

  • Johnson, Karen, EFE System Director, Career Partnership, Township High School District #214
  • Pritchett, Bob, EFE System Director, Delabar Vocational Ed. System
  • Wood, Mary Jo, EFE System Director, Regional Office of CTE
  • Yates, Brenda, EFE System Director, Marion/Clinton/Washington Regional Delivery System for Vocational Ed.

Business Partners

  • Comstock, Ginette, District Manager, Manpower
  • Davis, Jennifer, Recruitment Coordinator, Human Resources, Memorial Medical Center
  • Jenkins, Jenny, Corporate Human Resources Administrator, Gardner Denver, Inc.
  • Johnson, Larry, Sikich Gardner & Company
  • Melton, Jennifer, Office Manager/Human Resource Support, Unisys Corporation, Midwest Operations
  • Riechers, Sharon, Accounting, Bunn-o-Matic Corporation
  • Rockford, Judy, Vice President, Marine Bank
  • Sachdev, Sunit, Dean, College of Bus. & Technology, Caterpillar University
  • Schultheis, Jayme, Director, Human Resources, Heartland Dental Care Management Co.
  • Shelton, Deborah, Senior Vice President, First National Bank
  • Sprehe, Mark, Human Resources, Bunn-o-Matic Corporation
  • Voss, Tony, Learning Consultant, Caterpillar University
  • Wells, Tim, Market President, Wells Fargo Bank

H.S. Teachers/Administrators

  • Chenoweth, Susan, Bus. Dept. Chair, V.I.T. Junior-Senior High School
  • Devlin, Karri, Business Department, Springfield High School
  • Hutchinson, Gary, Chairman, Bus. & Technology Ed.—President IBEA, Hinsdale High School
  • Laub, Jill, CTE Department Chair, Southeast High School
  • Rucks, Sue, Business Department, Schaumberg High School
  • Smudrick, Connie, Technology Supervisor, Salem Community High School
  • Willard, Charles, Information Technology Program Manager, Education to Careers, Chicago Public Schools

University Personnel

  • Anderson, Marcia, Professor & Director, Graduate Programs, Department of Workforce Education & Development
  • Bailey, Glenn, Assistant Professor & Coord. Bus. Teacher Education Department of Marketing, Illinois State University
  • Drage, Karen, Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Eastern Illinois University

Community College Instructors

  • Howerter, Wendy, Department Chair-Business, Lincoln Land Community College
     

Illinois Office of Educational Services

  • Hotes, Robert, CRI Facilitator for Technology & Engineering Education
  • Mahinda, Diane, CRI Facilitator for Business
  • Mester, Cynthia, CRI Facilitator for Health Science Technology
  • Treat, Richard, Coordinator for CRI Project
  • Woodhull, Rebecca, Director, Illinois Office of Educational Services
 

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D. Diane Mahinda
CRI Business, Marketing, and Management Facilitator
dmahinda@ioes.org (217) 786-3010 ext. 228
Toll-Free: (800) 252-4822 ext. 228
Fax: (217) 786-3020 ATTN: Diane Mahinda

 
 
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