Professor
Office: Memorial 205A
Email: lori.garnes@minotstateu.edu
Phone Number: 858-3139
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Garnes is the Executive Director of the North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities (NDCPD) and Education and Inclusive Services Department faculty member. Dr. Garnes holds a Ph.D. in Special Education from Utah State University (2004). During her doctoral training, Dr. Garnes focused on teacher-preparation issues and distance education technologies, completing a dissertation on the effects of mentoring via email on the development of preservice special education teacher data-based decision-making skill.
Dr. Garnes has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, and Intellectual Developmental Disabilities from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a Master of Science in Severe Multiple Disabilities from Minot State University.
Dr. Garnes has prior experience in community settings with adults with developmental disabilities who are learning to live more independently. She has been with Minot State University since Fall 1996, initially as an adjunct lecturer and grant worker. In August 2011 she transferred to the North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities and became the director of the center in 2021.
