Opened Practices Users Named: Laurie

Dr. Laurie Richlin is Director of the Office of Faculty Development at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. She previously was the Director of the Claremont Graduate University Preparing Future Faculty and Learning Communities Program. In addition, she is Director of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - West, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars. She received her doctorate in higher education from the Claremont Graduate University, and her dissertation research on alternative doctoral scholarship received the national Gratzke award from the American Association of University Administrators. Her most recent publication is the book Blueprint for Learning: Constructing Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning(Stylus, 2006). She has taught the courses "The Academic Career," "Teaching and Learning in Higher Education," "New Orleans: Legacy and Promise," "Journalism," "Career Development," capstone courses in Education, and writing and research methods courses in several disciplines. Richlin developed and implemented the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the University of California, Riverside, was "Educator in Residence" at four small colleges in Kentucky and Indiana under a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant, and served as Director of the Office of Faculty Development at the University of Pittsburgh before returning to California.

I have been in higher education for 12 years, most of which was in a public community college setting. I also worked in a public university and am now with a private, non-profit university. My experience has been primarily in administration. My current role is advising departments in creating assessment plans, helping locate tools, creating support materials, etc.