People
Director
Laurie Van Egeren, Ph.D.
Director, Community Evaluation and Research Center
E-mail: vanegere@msu.edu
Vita
Laurie Van Egeren is the director of the Community Evaluation and Research Center and the co-director of the National Center for the Study of University Engagement. She conducts both program evaluations and basic research, and has worked on a number of evaluations for the State of Michigan. Among those are the 21st Century Community Learning Centers statewide evaluation, which is examining the effectiveness of after-school programming for students' academic achievement and socioemotional functioning, and the All Students Active Program - Parent involvement in Education (ASAP-PIE) evaluation, which focused on improving parenting in order to encourage school readiness in children from birth to 5 years. Van Egeren also conducts evaluation in community and economic development, early childhood science education, technological capacity building and coparenting and family relationships. She holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology and a M.A. in Child and Family Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University.
Miles A. McNall, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
E-Mail: mcnall@msu.edu
Vita
Miles McNall is the assistant director at the Community Evaluation and Research Center. McNall has extensive experience in the evaluation of health and human service programs. He participated in the evaluation of HIV prevention programs for young men at the University of Minnesota Medical College and oversaw the development of client outcome monitoring systems for agency programs at Catholic Charities of Chicago. At the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, he evaluated HIV/AIDS care programs and oversaw the agency's quality improvement efforts. Currently, McNall and his colleagues are conducting an evaluation of school-based health centers funded by the Michigan Department of Community Health. In addition, he is conducting an internal evaluation of the Community Evaluation and Research Center projects. McNall holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota.
