Jhan Doughty, who graduated from the College of Education in 1994 and 2001, was one of 22 Penn Staters honored by the Penn State Alumni Association Oct. 6 with the Alumni Fellow Award, the highest award given by the Alumni Association.
Doughty is the senior program adviser, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic design and implementation of the talent management and diversity, equity and inclusion portfolio for NAEP, which is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do in various subject areas.
Doughty’s previous roles at ETS include leadership positions in learning, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, and talent management. Her accomplishments include designing and implementing corporate-wide programs for women, veterans and underrepresented staff, as well as national talent pipeline programs with universities to provide opportunities for students to gain work experience.
Prior to joining ETS, she conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University School of Medicine and held positions at Miami University of Ohio, where she was an adjunct assistant professor and served in leadership roles in the offices of the president and provost.
She began her career in higher education at Penn State as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education.
In 2015, Doughty was recognized by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education as one of Top 25 Women in Higher Education.
She served on the College of Education Alumni Society Board of Directors and as the college’s 2013 spring commencement speaker.
Doughty also is the inaugural president of the Social Equity Alumni Network, formed earlier this year as an official alumni Affiliate Program Group (APG) in the College of Education.
An APG consists of alumni or friends of Penn State who have a common interest in a particular academic, professional or extracurricular activity that is related to a specific college or campus program.
While earning her doctorate degree, Doughty received the Graduate School’s 2001 Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award and the college’s 1999 Graduate Student Recognition Award.
The Alumni Fellow program is administered by the Penn State Alumni Association in cooperation with the University’s academic colleges, campuses and the Office of the President.
Alumni are nominated by a college or campus as leaders in their professional fields and accept an invitation from the president of the University to return to campus to share their expertise with students, faculty and administrators.