Margaret Holt, EdD
Dr. Holt is a retired faculty member from the Department of Adult Education at the University of Georgia, and since l981 an Associate with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. She is one of six founders of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation, a non-profit organization that annually awards scholarships to older women pursuing higher education. Margaret has received numerous awards and special recognitions since l978 including: selection to Outstanding Young Women of America (1979), Certificate of Merit from the Council for the Advancement of Citizenship, Washington, D.C., (1982), selection to Leadership Athens, sponsorship by the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce (1986), induction into Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (1988), National Issues Forum Five Year Program Award, Washington, D.C. (1989), nominated to membership in University Round Table (1991), recognized as Charter Member of the Ned Herrmann Group Research and Development Network (1992), and appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Board of Visitors for the Community College of the Air Force (1993). In June 1994, she was named a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia. In addition to many presentations in the U.S., she has made presentations in Greece, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, and Poland.

Margaret has co-authored two books on educational certificate programs and numerous articles and reports considering impact evaluations and follow up studies. She is former editor of the journal Innovative Higher Education and has served as an advisor to the Phi Kappa Phi Journal, The National Forum. More recent publications include an article about operating groups in cyberspace with Mike Davis in Innovative Higher Education, havingproblems@cm.com: new ways to miss the point, and two chapters in the recently released New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education series edited by Brad Cahoon, Adult Learning and the Internet. The chapters are "Facilitating Group Learning on the Internet" and "Ethical Considerations in Internet-Based Adult Education." Her professional interests include technology (particularly distance education) and learning, evaluation and program planning. She has taught adult learning theory, program development, public policy and adult education, and instructional methods. In l996 she completed an evaluation of PACT training at Carrier Transicold and a process evaluation of the Neighborhood Leadership Project in Atlanta funded by the Department of Justice. She has contributed to evaluating a leadership development program in the Mississippi Delta for the Kellogg Foundation, a community leadership project with health professionals for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, a public health project (Turning Point) for the National Association of City and County Health Officials in Washington D.C., and a course offered through the Center of Excellence at Tripler AFB, Honolulu that prepares medics in the military and non-governmental agencies to establish and manage refugee camps in world violence situations. She worked again evaluating training of military medics in San Antonio in September 2004. In June 1998 she completed a technical report on distance education in Georgia based for the University of Georgia System Board of Regents, Office of Information and Instructional Technology. In December of 1998 she conducted A Survey of Employee Climate for the Gwinnet Daily Post, Gwinnett News and Entertainment, Albany Herald, and Rockdale Citizen Publishing Company.

She was invited in June 1999 to become lead evaluator for a FIPSE (United States Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) three-year grant to the Southern Regional Education Board related to the development of a Distance Education Policy Laboratory. Also for FIPSE in 1999-2000, she completed an evaluation of the Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Georgia. In October 2000 she evaluated a weeklong workshop on Security Management at Kaneohe Marine Base, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the World Vision Organization. In November 2000 she evaluated a week long Combined Humanitarian and Response Training Course in San Antonio, Texas, at Fort Sam Houston. In September 2004, she evaluated instruction and teaching methods for the Combat Medic Training at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Texas.

She has (November 2000-August 2004) evaluated a U.S. Department of Education demonstration program for the Dekalb County School System, "Elementary School Counseling." In addition she contracted with the Georgia Department of Human Services to provide l4 workshop modules on Adult Learning and Curriculum Design (December 2000-June 2001). With Dr. Cassie Drennon, she completed in July 2002 a study for the Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services, Professional Development Section: DFCS Training and Evaluation- A Focus Group Study. Also, she completed in July 2003 the evaluation of an exercise program for seniors managed by UGA professor of exercise science, Dr. Elaine Cress. She prepared and delivered workshops on evaluation and curriculum design for the Georgia State Department of Human Resources, January-April 2002. In January 2001 she participated as a member of a design team for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change's "Leadership Plenty Project." She held a three-year appointment to the Board of Directors for the Kettering Foundation's National Issues Forum Institute Board, and was a Dayton Days Associate with this same Foundation in Dayton, Ohio 2000-2001. Other work with the Kettering Foundation includes working with the China-US exchange program, the higher education research group, and a community leadership project. She is also working with senior program staff during 2001-2003 to develop an evaluation manual for the Foundation. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee, a large biracial group of Georgians formed to commemorate the Dorseys and Malcoms, two couples lynched in Georgia in 1946 (see http://www.mooresford.org). Beginning in February 2003, she served as a diarist working with a videographer to produce a documentary, The Edge of America, on social justice related to public health work in Onslow County, North Carolina; Cochise, Arizona; and Fort Peck, Montana. The program is guided by the Turning Point Project through the National Association of City and County Health Officials, D.C. Her most recent publication (Spring 2003): Moving from Forums For the People to Forums By the People is part of the Futures Project for the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education. In February 2004 she was appointed to the Council on Public Policy Education (Washington DC).

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