Culver-Stockton’s Janney receives Outstanding Leader in Experiential Education award

CANTON, Mo. — The National Society for Experiential Education has named Dell Ann Janney, dean of graduate and professional studies and professor of accounting at Culver-Stockton College, the 2021 NSEE Outstanding Leader in Experiential Education: Higher Education award. Janney received the award last week at the 50th annual NSEE Conference in Orlando, Fla.

The award recognizes a person in higher education demonstrating innovative uses of experiential learning at their institution. 

With 30 years in higher education, Janney oversees the strategic planning for graduate and online programs, instructional technology and career and internship services.  In Janney’s previous role as associate dean of experiential education, she created the Strategic Plan for Excellence in Experiential Education, which would become the foundation for the Higher Learning Commission Quality Improvement Plan.

The Quality Improvement Plan included:

• the creation and implementation of an assessment plan for experiential education.
• the launch of the NSEE’s Experiential Education Academy on the C-SC campus, with more than 70 percent of the faculty trained.
• the establishment of an Experiential Learning Center.
• the Innovation, Design and Experiential Activities Center, which will open this fall to provide a venue for experiential learning.

Janney completed the EEA and became a member of the EEA faculty in 2017. Janney became a member of the EEA Curriculum Committee and taught the Best Practices in Internships workshop at a 2019 conference. She produced the online offering of Legal Issues in Experiential Education workshop and assisted with the creation of the Producer’s Facilitation guide in 2020 and 2021. She redesigned and presented the online offering of the Principles of Ethical & Best Practice workshop in 2021. 

The National Society for Experiential Education is a nonprofit membership association of educators, businesses, and community leaders. Founded in 1971, it serves as a national resource center for the development and improvement of experiential education programs nationwide.