Holly Zanville

Holly Zanville
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Dr. Holly Zanville joined the GW Institute of Public Policy in January 2021 as a Research Professor and Co-Director of the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy. She is also Co-Lead of the national initiative, Credential As You Go; and lead of the prototype Learn & Work Ecosystem Library initiative. She serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council on Badges and Credentials (ICoBC).
Holly is a former strategy director at Lumina Foundation, where she focused on the work-and-learn ecosystem, including the future of work; networks and partnerships; collective action initiatives; and research to increase awareness of and solutions related to workforce-education alignment, credentialing, and quality assurance. In her near-15 year tenure at Lumina, Holly focused especially on adult students and non-degree, workforce-relevant credentials, leading national initiatives such as Connecting Credentials, Credential Engine, and Credit When It’s Due. She also led research on how industry certifications are embedded in college programs, and was the architect of the Learn-and-Work Ecosystem Guide. Holly has a substantial history of speaking and writing about the meaning and value of credentials beyond high school. Her publications include a book chapter (Credentials for a New era of Work and Learning, Wiley, 2020), and many blogs, interviews, white papers, reports, and research briefs.
Prior to joining Lumina in 2006, Holly served as senior administrator/chief academic officer for the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs in the Oregon University System, state coordinator for Oregon Joint Boards K-20 Redesign Initiative, and director of economic development and regional internship programs for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). She has held academic appointments in teaching, assessment of prior learning, grants management, and higher education policy and practice at colleges and universities in Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, and Oregon.
Holly holds a BA from Lindenwood University (Missouri), MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and PhD from the University of Minnesota. She received the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development for “bold efforts across the educational spectrum to modernize and optimize the structures, systems, and processes that impact student success.” She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Humane Society for Hamilton County, Indiana.
- Zanville. H. (September 1, 2022). The Stories Behind Service Matter The EvoLLLution
- Zanville, H; Travers, N. (August 26, 2022). Transforming the Nation’s Degree-Centric Postsecondary System to an Incremental Credential System Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
- Caballero, A.; Gallagher, S.; Shapiro, H.; Zanville, H. (July 5, 2022). Microcredentials: A new category of education is rising UniversityWorldNews.com
- Zanville, H.; Hochstein M. (February 16, 2022). Developing a Digital Learn-and-Work Ecosystem Library: Laying the Groundwork for Library Ontology Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy
- Zanville, H. (June 30, 2022). Bring in the Translators and Decoders: The Language of Credentialing Needs Help – Part Four. The EvoLLLution
- Zanville. H. (June 23, 2022). Bring in the Translators and Decoders: The Language of Credentialing Needs Help – Part Three. The EvoLLLution
- Zanville. H. (June 16, 2022). Bring in the Translators and Decoders: The Language of Credentialing Needs Help – Part Two. The EvoLLLution
- Zanville. H. (June 9, 2022). Bring in the Translators and Decoders: The Language of Credentialing Needs Help – Part One. The EvoLLLution
- Knestis, K. & Zanville. H. (May 3, 2022). Reflections On Conducting Research in A Changing Credentialing Ecosystem. Credential As You Go
- Institutional Accreditation at the Crossroads: Drivers for Change, EVOLVING: Accreditation and the Credential Landscape (04/05/2022)
- Flying the Skills Plane with Duct Tape and Chewing Gum: The Design Challenges—Part Three, EvoLLLution (04/05/2022)
- Flying the Skills Plane with Duct Tape and Chewing Gum: The Design Challenges—Part Two, EvoLLLution (03/29/2022)
- Flying the Skills Plane with Duct Tape and Chewing Gum: The Design Challenges - Part One, EvoLLLution (03/22/2022)
- Definitions and Use of Key Terms and Concepts in Incremental Credentialing, Credential As You Go (03/08/2022)
- 2022 Toy Design Shops for K-12 and Higher Education: The Key Role of Credential-As-You-Go, EvoLLLution (2/24/2022)
- Lesson Learned for Digital Badges and Credentialing from a 2021 Season’s Greeting Card, Evolllution (1/19/2022)
- Conversations on Credential As You Go (Nan Travers, Peter Smith, Holly Zanville), The Evolllution (1/11/2022)
- How Do Microcredentials Stack Up? Part 2 (with Jackie Pichette) Evolllution (10/14/2021)
- How Do Microcredentials Stack Up? Part 1 (with Jackie Pichette) Evolllution (10/14/2021)
- Is Incremental Credentialing Compatible with Institutional Accreditation? Part 3 (with Nan Travers) Evolllution (10/8/2021)
- Is Incremental Credentialing Compatible with Institutional Accreditation? Part 2 (with Nan Travers) Evolllution (10/8/2021)
- Is Incremental Credentialing Compatible with Institutional Accreditation? Part 1 (with Nan Travers) Evolllution (10/8/2021)
- The Importance of Incremental Credentialing: State Policy Organization View (with Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield), Evolllution (8/5/2021)
- The Importance of Incremental Credentialing: Philanthropy View (with Wendy Sediak), Evolllution (7/29/2021)
- The Importance of Incremental Credentialing: State System of Higher Education View (with Chris Rasmussen), Evolllution (7/21/2021)
- The Importance of Incremental Credentialing: An Employer’s View (with David Leaser), Evolllution (7/15/2021)
- Digital Platforms and Implications for Community Colleges LinkedIn, (7/8/2021)
- The Rapidly Changing Global Landscape of Microcredentials (with George Lorenzo), Evolllution (7/7/2021)
- Nondegree Credentialing: A Global Issue -- A Report from the Nondegree Credential Research Network, (May 2021)
- The Unmudl Report: Community Colleges Powering the Skills-to-Jobs Marketplace, (May 2021)
- What do transformer action figures and credentialing have in common? Medium / Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (4/21/2021)
- More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging? Sean Gallagher (Columnist) and Holly Zanville. EdSurge (3/25/2021)
- WorkRise: New Initiative to Transform the Labor Market. Evolllution (3/22/2021)
- To Understand the Non-Degree Credentialing World, Go Global (with Stephen Crawford and Kyle W. Albert). Evolllution (3/2/2021)
- It’s Time for an Incremental Credentialing System (with Nan Travers and Larry Good). Medium (1/7/2021)
- Prior Learning Assessment: 2010, 2020, 2030 (Evolllution, 01/02/2021)
- An Rx for an Ailing Postsecondary Education System: Credential As You Go (with Nan Travers and Larry Good), Medium (11/24/2020)
- Taking the Temperature of 3 Learn-and-Work Initiatives in a Pandemic (11/12/2020)
- COVID-19 Writes a Prescription for Change: Unbundling/Rebundling Learning (with Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health) (10/13/2020)
- The Virus that Opened the Floodgates to Change (Interview with Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs and Dean of Extension, University of California San Diego), Evolllution (09/2/2020)
- Developing Skills That Lead to Jobs: Designing the New Normal with a Four-Point Plan? (with David Leaser, Senior Program Executive, Innovation/Growth Initiatives, IBM Support Transformation, Skills & Globalization), Evolllution (08/2020)
- Reflections on Education in a New Era of Work and Learning, Chapter 6, Credentials for a New Era of Work and Learning, New Directions for Community Colleges (Spring 2020)
- Aviation Maintenance during a Pandemic: The Inside Story (Interview with Larry Good, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, and Ryan Goertzen, AAR), Evolllution (08/2020)
- Credentialing in the COVID-19 Landscape? (Interview with Sean Gallagher, Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy, Northeastern University), Evolllution (07/2020)
- Embedding Certifications into Bachelor’s Degrees Could Improve Transitions into the Labor Market (Interview with Karen Elzey, Workcred), Evolllution (05/2020)
- An Updated Map to Help Us Navigate the Learn-And-Work Highway, Evolllution (03/2020)
- The edX Model Is One Promising Route to Education’s Future, Evolllution (10/2019)
- Reflections on Credentialing: Past, Present and Future, Evolllution (01/2019)
- What Will Be Important in the Learn and Work Ecosystem in 2030? How Do We Prepare? Evolllution (10/2018)