Candace Cartwright Young is a professor of political science at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, and a leading expert on academic assessment in higher education. She received her BA in history and government at Columbia College and her MA and PhD in political science at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Her dissertation, U.S. Olympic Politics: A Public Policy Case Study, was inspired by her husband Larry Young, the two-time Olympic bronze medalist (and, to date, only American medalist) in racewalking. Dr. Young has been teaching at Truman since 1980, and her teaching interests include American government, public administration, and public policy. Her research focuses mostly on academic assessment - she has published extensively on assessment, and she has moderated academic conferences on the topic. Indeed, her controbutions are so significant that she has been cited in faculty senate resolutions from major universities such as the State University of New York. Indeed, she served as the keynote speaker at SUNY's 2009 Celebration of Teaching, where she presented her most recent research on educational assessment. In addition to these achievements, Dr. Young has served on numerous statewide panels on higher education in Missouri including the Missouri Assessment Consortium, and she is the past president of the Missouri Political Science Association.
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