Critique with Care: Best Practices for a High Quality Peer Review Webinar

As a scholarly association, one of the most important things we do as members is to support each other’s scholarship through peer review and feedback. In this one-hour session, you will:

• Leave with concrete language and frameworks for writing feedback that is useful, fair, and constructive
• Understand the ASHE proposal evaluation criteria and how reviewers are expected to apply them
• See real examples of what makes a review genuinely helpful, and what falls short
• Engage with panelists who have been recognized across the field for the quality, thoughtfulness and care they bring to peer review 
• Get a step-by-step walk through of the Conference Portal so you are ready to go when reviews open

Your reviews shape whose work gets presented during the annual conference and how scholars experience the field, which is why we want this webinar to be genuinely useful in helping us build the scholarly community we want and need.

Whether it's your first time serving as a reviewer and you want to learn more about the process or your 30th time and you want to enhance your reviewing skills, we hope you'll join us for this informative session.

The session will be recorded and uploaded to the ASHE YouTube Channel. 

Featured Panelists: 

• Quortne Hutchings, PhD. - Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Northern Illinois University
• Kati Lebioda, PhD - Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
• Annie M. Wofford, PhD. - Associate Director, Equity in Graduate Education Consortium

Moderators:

• Crystal E. Garcia, PhD (she/her) 2026 Program Committee Co-Chair - Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
• Demetri L. Morgan, PhD (he/him) 2026 Program Committee Co-Chair - Associate Professor of Education, University of Michigan
• Alicia Castillo Shrestha, MEd (she/her) ASHE Director for Conference & Professional Development