DR. WILLIAM J. PAVER
 Dr.
Paver's career in international admissions and credentials evaluation
has included leadership positions in all the major professional organizations
in the field of foreign admissions. Much of his knowledge stems from his
years as Director of the Graduate and International Admissions Center
at the University of Texas at Austin (GIAC),
where he developed a benchmark admissions system that is looked to as
a standard for excellence nationwide. He is widely recognized as an expert
in the evaluation of foreign credentials has served as a consultant on
visa matters to Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS)
as well as on the CIPRIS/SEVIS
program Dr. Paver was also recently cited as an Honorary Member of AACRAO
(see citation). His full credentials are as follows:
 Ph.D in Higher
Education/Administration (Washington State University)
Assistant Dean of Graduate
Studies and Associate Director of Admissions, where he directed the Graduate
and International Admissions Center. (GIAC)
Member Board of Directors
NAFSA: The Association of International
Educators
Member of the Board
of Directors, AACRAO.
Vice President of International
Education, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions
Officers (see more about AACRAO)
Honorary Member of
AACRAO (see citation)
Member of the Test
of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Board of Directors
Chair of TOEFL Technology
committee, member of TOEFL Outreach & Services Committee, and member
of TOEFL Finance Committee
Chair of the Educational
Testing Service (ETS) committee on the
implementation of computer based testing in the U.S. and Canada
Chair and author of
AACRAO project on the mutual recognition of credentials between the United
States and Russia Ministry of Education.
Member and Chair of
NAFSA: The Association of International Educators Admissions Section (ADSEC)
Team
Served on the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS)
Interagency Task Force as an Expert Consultant in defining evaluation and cross check standards for use in the design, development and operational testing of a comprehensive Foreign Student and Exchange Visitors Screening, Monitoring and Reporting system known as the Student-Exchange Visitor System (CIPRIS/SEVIS)
Twice appointed to
and has served on the National
Council on the Evaluation of Foreign Educational Credentials. The
Council establishes the placement recommendations, used nationally, to
determine how foreign educational credentials are to be evaluated for
the purposes of employment and academic placement (admissions).
Member of the Projects
in International Educational Research (PIER)
committee. PIER oversees the production of books on the educational systems
of foreign countries for AACRAO and NAFSA
Author of comparative
education publications on Britain, Russia and China.
Author and editor of
the Handbook on the Placement of Foreign Graduate Students (the "Grad
Handbook"), a widely used standard text in the field of international
admissions
Presenter at numerous
conferences including NAFSA, AACRAO, SACRAO,
European Association of International Educators (EAIE),
The Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE),
the College Board and the National Association of Graduate Admissions
Professionals (NAGAP)
Member and Chair of
the Open Doors Committee for the Institute of International Education
(IIE). Open Doors is the annual publication
of census data on foreign students studying in the United States
Responsible for the
admission of transfer students to the
University of Texas at Austin
Member of the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boards Committee for the development
of a common application for students applying to public institutions of
higher education Texas. Assisted in the development of the graduate and
international applications for the Texas State Common Application.
Member of Austin Area
Youth Council
Board of Directors,
St. Michael's Academy
AACRAO representative
to CIPRIS/SEVIS.
Board of Directors
Partners in Education (Austin Independent School District/Chamber of Commerce)
Graduate Gonzaga
University and St. Ignatius
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