Margaret Holt, EdD
Board Advisor – Athens, GA

Dr. Margaret Holt is a retired faculty member Department of Adult Education at the University of Georgia, and since l981 an Associate with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. She also works as a strategizer with the nonprofit organization, CommonHealth ACTION in Washington, D.C.  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. She has received numerous awards and special recognitions since l978 including: Selected to Outstanding Young Women of America (1979), Certificate of Merit from the Council for the Advancement of Citizenship, Washington, D.C., (1982), Selected to Leadership Athens, Sponsored 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.

She 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 [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 will work 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.

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