Rate My Professor Lori Youngberg

Youngberg earned her M.A. in Education from Iowa State University. Her professional excellence has been acknowledged with the “Students First Award” presented by the Great Plains Initiative, a consortium dedicated to online learning. She also holds a Continuing Education Certification in “Creating Presence in Online Courses” from the University of Wisconsin. Key achievements under her leadership include the development and implementation of both on-campus and online Canvas orientation courses for incoming STB students, the inception and coordination of short courses and the bi-annual webinar series, the design of a novel online guided creative component course within Canvas, and the organization of annual faculty lunch-and-learn networking events. Furthermore, Youngberg has contributed to scholarly discourse through co-authorship of notable publications, such as the 2006 paper “Evaluation of a Web-Based Master's Degree Program” with colleagues Jiaqi Yu and Gary Munkvold, and the 2018 article “An Online Graduate Program Evaluation: What Do Course Instructors Have to Say?”. These works underscore her expertise in evaluating and enhancing online graduate programs in specialized fields like seed technology and business. Her dedicated service has had a lasting impact on professional development within the seed sector.