A Message from the President
Dear
Colleagues and Friends,
Sixteen years ago Hezel Associates began publishing a more-or-less quarterly newsletter, then called StrataGems: News and Ideas for the Learning Media. It later evolved into what you are now reading, Strategies. Back then we were a company with just one employee (Jim Woodell, now Dean at North Shore Community College, and my still-good-friend). Today Hezel Associates, LLC, employs more than 20 excellent, quality-driven individuals who execute numerous interesting projects for our varied clientele.
In 1990, as a three-year-old company, Hezel Associates focused almost entirely on educational telecommunications, distance learning, evaluation, media and technology. Today our projects are more varied, and certainly still as interesting—distance learning and e-learning, literacy education, teacher professional development, continuing education, marketing, business and strategic development, higher education accountability. This newsletter represents well the “news and ideas” around the issues we’re working on each day.
What hasn’t changed is our focus on learning and the central role of research, evaluation and assessment in good decisions about programs and strategies to deliver to target populations. And we still have the same dedication to our clients, who are ever pursuing improvements in their services to learners and demonstrating quality through assessment and intelligence.
In this, the beginning of our 20th year in service, Hezel Associates looks forward to engaging with you in the mission to expand the quality and availability of learning opportunities.
Best wishes for your education successes,
Richard T. Hezel, Ph.D.
President