Corbin Campbell

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Corbin M. Campbell is a leading expert on college teaching with a focus on improving equitable student outcomes.

Dr. Corbin M. Campbell

Researcher

Corbin M. Campbell, Ph.D., is a leading scholar of college teaching with a focus on how colleges and universities can improve teaching at scale and support equitable student success. Dr. Campbell holds a window into the higher education teaching world that is unmatched. She was the Principal Investigator of the College Educational Quality study studying more than 700 courses across institutions and disciplines over 10 years. More recently, as a PI of the Equity-Based Teaching Collective, Dr. Campbell studies the systemic levers for improvement of teaching and equitable outcomes.

She has authored more than 50 publications about college teaching, educational equity, academic rigor, college rankings, and faculty development and careers. Her research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education. Dr. Campbell’s work has been highlighted in news venues, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Inside Higher Education, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her expertise has been sought by the National Academies, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education.

Speaker

A passionate and impactful speaker, Dr. Campbell has given more than 80 keynotes, national presentations, and university-based presentations. Dr. Campbell highlights change strategies to improve college teaching in specific institutional contexts. These insights help senior leaders, faculty development experts, administrators, and faculty to implement meaningful, systemic, and sustainable improvements in college teaching and equitable student outcomes.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing presentation! Your time, research, and energy were fantastic. Our folks were thrilled. I had several people texting me throughout the presentation as your research was so impactful. We have already scheduled a follow up meeting to talk more and continue to massage the implications. As one participant in the talk shared with me, ‘this is jaw-dropping.’”

-Dr. Scott E. Hamm, Assistant Director of the Adams Center for Teaching & Learning, Abilene Christian University

“Dr. Campbell’s talk provided our teaching and learning community with a preview of her book and helpful data that served as conversation starters. Our local group moved to thinking about applying the findings to Stanford and what efforts we might start or leverage to address this local context. The talk and conversation was also an enticing introduction to the book; several individuals were excited for Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning to host a book club for further discussion.”

-Dr. Gloriana Trujillo, Director of Academic Teaching Program, Stanford University

Book Cover: Great College Teaching: Where It Happens and How to Foster It Everywhere

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Book Released in April 2023 with Harvard University Press
Great College Teaching: Where It Happens and How to Foster It Everywhere

Great College Teaching highlights where and how exemplary teaching is practiced in US higher education and charts a course for cultivating teaching improvement throughout all types of institutions.

Campbell draws from a multi-institutional observational study that covered more than 700 higher education courses in a range of contexts, from regional public universities to highly ranked private universities, from small liberal arts colleges to large flagship universities. The actionable practices and policies suggested in Great College Teaching can be adopted by academic leaders, administrators, and faculty developers to improve teaching within a spectrum of academic contexts, across multiple disciplines, and for various course settings.

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Great College Teaching shows what is possible when student learning is at the center of decision making by leaders, faculty, and staff. It offers important lessons for policy makers to ensure that every student has access to high impact teaching.

— Marjorie Hass, president, Council of Independent Colleges

Timely and indispensable. Campbell shows how to build on what we have long known about teaching excellence to seize widespread post-pandemic opportunities for fundamental institutional and cultural change. This book is a wonderfully spirited roadmap grounded in illuminating, original research and guided by enduring democratic values.

— Steven P. Dandaneau, executive director, Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities

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