HLC Presentation, April 2008


Ralph Fagin, the Interim President of Oral Roberts University, and I are at the Higher Learning Commission Annual Meeting in Chicago, ready share about Personal Growth Assessment.


It is huge, so it could take minute or two.

Have a happy day!

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