Allison Rossett Inducted into HRD Hall of Fame For the last 15 years, Training magazine has honored the most distinguished contributors to the theory and practice of job-related training by inducting them into the HRD (Human Resource Development) Hall of Fame. Annually, Training magazine selects an individual whose vision and work have significantly shaped the profession and uses the following criteria for selection: A distinguished practitioner whose work has enhanced the status and impact of HRD; A researcher who has advanced our understanding of adult learning and HRD in the workplace; or A thinker who has created and communicated original HRD concepts or theories. The 2000 Hall of Fame inductee is one of the SDSU Educational Technology department's very own: Dr. Allison Rossett. She joins the ranks of several other notable colleagues who have been inducted including Donald Kirkpatrick (1997), developer of the four-level training-evaluation model, Malcolm Knowles (1985), specialist in adult learning and "androgyny", Robert Mager (1985), authority on learning objectives, Geary Rummler (1986), shaper of the systems approach to performance, and Gloria Gery (1999). A professor of Educational Technology for the past 23 years at SDSU, a generation of graduate students have benefited from Dr. Rossett's expertise and mentoring in the areas of needs assessment, instructional design, performance analysis, and consulting. Her dual roles as both a professor and consultant allow her to strike a balance between the worlds of academia and business, and to provide students with authentic experiences. She integrates her own "tales from the trenches" and those of her former students into her lectures. Students in her Advanced Instructional Design class are asked to apply instructional design theory to real-world challenges as they are matched up with a local client-in-need. Dr. Rossett is also a noted speaker and author of book chapters, magazine and journal articles, and books. Her most recent book on performance analysis, First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis (1999) and its companion web site were awarded the International Society for Performance Improvement 1999 instructional communications award.