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Data vs Human Experience

December 9, 2025

By: Kritika Gupta

Human experience is absorbed, modified, and communicated to other humans or artificial intelligence in both formal and informal settings. With the exponential increase in the use...

Project Spotlight: Mission Acceleration

December 9, 2025

By: Rachel Scott

Working at CERE, I have the opportunity to serve as the external evaluator for projects that are making a difference for children and families in Mississippi. This is the sweet spot...

Shifting courses

December 9, 2025

By: Sam Cohen-Winans

Preparation in the Classroom – My Evaluation Beginnings

After completing my bachelor’s and master’s in exercise physiology and my first year as a doctoral student, there was...

Know your skills

December 9, 2025

By: Kritika Gupta

When I joined the University of Mississippi in 2019 as a Ph.D. student, I fell in love with the University. I knew I wanted to stay around—but how? As my dissertation defense date...

The Undergraduate Experience at CERE

December 9, 2025

By: Courtney McNair

"Glass slipper” of majors

As a rising senior, I have learned that part of the college experience is changing your major… maybe once, maybe twice. Finding the right fit for me was...

"New to it all"

December 9, 2025

By: Sherrita Murray

My Background: Sight set on Ole Miss

Hello, my name is Sherrita Murray, Administrative Assistant at CERE. I was born and raised here in Oxford. As a little girl growing up here...

Absence, Silence, and Disempowerment

December 9, 2025

By: Sarah Mason

When policy makers and organizational leaders talk about evaluation, many of these conversations are framed around achievement-oriented values, using language such as outcomes and...

Batman and Evaluation

December 9, 2025

By: Joey Rutherford

recently went to the theatre to watch the most recent iteration of Batman. In this version, Robert Pattinson stars as the newest Batman. As a child of the 1980s, Michael...