User:Rentedname

Brief Bio
I am Andrew Carson, Associate Director of Testing in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at Kaplan University. I also maintain an assessment-related consulting practice (Drew Carson Consulting, presently in hibernation mode), and I am currently developing several assessments of my own, primarily related to career development. My professional interests are higher education, education reform, educational and vocational psychology, and assessment and psychometrics. I also am interested in intellectual and cultural history, imagination and play (including toys, games, simulation, and costumes), popular media, and the history of science and religion. I live in the Chicago area.

Management of Conflict of Interest Risks
I am aware of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and will abide by them. My greatest risk for conflict of interest (COI) lies in contributing content to and making edits of articles related to my employer (Kaplan University) and those other subjects in which I have a professional interest (see prior paragraph). If I do provide content to any articles for which a conflict of interest exists, I will acknowledge the COI risk both here and in the discussion page for the article. However, in general I plan to simply provide assistance to editors through talk and discussion pages. Because I am a newbie to Wikipedia, I would appreciate any advice or recommendations on how to manage COI issues and would prefer to err on the side of caution until I learn more about the community.

Contact
If you wish to contact me, please leave a message on my talk page or e-mail me at acarson@kaplan.edu

--Rentedname (talk) 17:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)