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 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Robert Sloat ,
Ph.D
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Dr. Robert Sloat
is a highly experienced administrator in the field of human services,
with over 35 years of experience in management, training, testing,
evaluation and seminar development.
His expertise includes budget development, evaluation,
simulation techniques (in-basket items), program design, personnel
management, and staff acquisition and training. He has served as a grants
manager and consultant, and in-service trainer for both institutions of
higher education and non-profit agencies. He is the author of 25
publications, the presenter of more than 40 papers on topics including
organizational theory, adolescent suicide, attention deficit disorder, the
nature of intelligence, the gifted, and similar writings in education,
sociology, psychology and administration.
He is currently working for
L.J. Craig & Associates,
Inc.
on various testing and assessment projects. He has worked as a field
interviewer and assessment leader for the National Opinion Research Center
at the University of Chicago and the Research Triangle Institute at the
University of North Carolina. These institutions serve as the primary
investigative arm which collects data for multi-year studies. These
studies funded by such federal offices as the Agency for Health Policy and
Research, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the
Administration of Children, Youth and Families. The funding of these
agencies is provided by the National Institutes of Health, the Department
of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services.
As a consultant, Dr. Sloat has worked with a number of
community colleges, including Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC). At
DBCC he authored a special guide focusing on test taking skills for
student athletes. He also evaluated their assessment center and
development program and designed a model for revision of both programs
utilizing the TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education) and current evaluative
instruments for adult learners. At both DBCC and Lake City Community
College, he revised a faculty handbook and wrote a training program to
facilitate the inclusion of disabled students in regular class offerings.
At these institutions he served as a resource to members of the faculty,
staff, and administration on issues related to the rights and
responsibilities, under state and federal law, of disabled students.
Dr. Sloat has been on the faculties of Florida Atlantic
University, the University of Northern Colorado, and Texas Women’s
University. At these universities he taught in the departments of
Psychology, Rehabilitative Services, Counseling and Guidance, Educational
Administration, and Exceptional Child Education at the doctoral, graduate
and undergraduate levels, as a tenured full Professor. He authored and
taught courses in counseling, substance abuse, and the abusive personality
(including suicide and child/spouse abuse), and medical, psychological,
and sociological aspects of disabilities.
In addition, as a Project Director of numerous Federal
and State Training Grants, he managed and supervised the budgetary and
training aspects of these grants.
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