Northern Illinois University
Paul Kassel
College of Visual and Performing Arts

University

• Dean’s Council
• Strategic Enrollment Management Committee
• Resource, Budget, Space Committee
• Rules, Governance Committee
• Management Bargaining Team
• UNIV 101 Redesign Committee

• Liberal Education Committee–Co-Chair
• Advising Task Force
• Strategic Planning Presidential Ad Hoc Committee
• Organization Committee Co-Chair
• Associate Deans Committee
• Evolutionary Studies Advisory Board
• Central Committee on Promotion and Discretionary Salary Increases
• Academic Senate
• Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Advisory Board
• Undergraduate College Advisory Committee.
• Middle States Accreditation Subcommittee on the First Year Experience

• Affirmative Action Committee (chair)
• Women’s Studies Program Committee

Professional

   Association of American Colleges and Universities

• Team Leader. Northern Illinois University. Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success.  “Creative Path to College Success.”  Boston University.  Boston, MA. 2017.
• Team member. SUNY New Paltz. Institute on Integrative Learning. University of Vermont.  Burlington, VT. 
• Team member. SUNY New Paltz.  General Education and Assessment Conference.  University of Vermont.  Burlington, VT. 

  Middle States Commission on Higher Education

• Site visit team member.  8-10 April 2020.
• Manhattan School of Music. Site visit team member.  9-11 April 2018.
• Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Site Visit team member. 7-10 April 2013.

  Academic Program Review

• East Stroudsberg University. Program Evaluation.  Department of Theatre. 
• Dutchess County Community College. Program Review.  Department of Theatre. 
• Hunter College. Site visit.  Lead author of narrative.  April 2006.

  Tenure and Promotion External Evaluator

• Wheaton College
• Denison University
• Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
• Miami University of Ohio—Oxford
• Brooklyn College
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• Oklahoma State University
• Miami University of Ohio—Hamilton
• University of New Hampshire
• Cornell University

Professional Membership

• International Conference of Fine Arts Deans
• National Council of Arts Administrators
• Arts Alliance of Research Universities
• Actors’ Equity Association
• Screen Actors’ Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
• The Association for Theatre in Higher Education
• American College Theatre Festival
• Alpha Psi Omega (National Theatre Honorary Society)