About CEE
The University of San Diego promotes a learning and teaching environment that reflects its essential values of academic excellence, individual development, community, ethical conduct, and service. The Center for Educational Excellence provides a series of integrated programs and events and a variety of resources to assist faculty in creating an intellectually challenging environment for learning. The Center is staffed by the director, and the CEE staff, and is advised by the CEE Advisory Committee with academic representatives.
Staff & Committees
Director: Dr. Carole L. Huston |
Carole L. Huston, Professor in Communication Studies, joined the University of San Diego in August 1989. She is also the current director of the Center for Educational Excellence, an organization working to integrate faculty development with innovative learner-centered contexts and curricular objectives/outcomes. Working with a research team, she oversees the e-portfolio pilot projects, investigating reflective learning and self-presentation at undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Huston has authored several papers and publications in interpersonal communication, organizational communication, rhetorical criticism, and research methods. http://www.sandiego.edu/commstudies/faculty/huston.php |
Assistant Director: |
Amanda Ryan is the Assistant Director for the Center for Educational Excellence at the University of San Diego. She is a certified instructional designer and earned a master of arts in educational technology from San Diego State University in 2005. Amanda has been working in higher education since 1989 and has particular interests in exploring organizational development and the ever-expanding possibilities that digital technologies provide for teaching and learning. Amanda enjoys cross-disciplinary collaboration among educators in conducting research on teaching practices, assessment techniques and instructional design technologies to help align teaching practices with student learning. |
Administrative Assistant:  David Ornelas II |
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Dr. Sandra Sgoutas-Emch is a professor in the Psychology Department who teaches some of the interdisciplinary courses in the gender studies program. Dr. Sgoutas-Emch received her bachelor's degree in psychology at Emory University and her Masters and Ph.D. in biological psychology at the University of Georgia. She completed a NIH postdoctoral training program at The Ohio State University in the field of psychoneuroimmunology before coming to USD. Her main research interests are reactions to stress, women's health issues, predictors of medical health practices, and studying variables that predict performance in the classroom. Office Location: Serra Hall Room 112 |
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Professor Selected publications: The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulus and The Sioux (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994). A History Book Club Selection. "Civil Wars in South Dakota and South Africa: The Role of the 'Third Force,'" Western Historical Quarterly (2003): 427-44 "The Imperialism of Cultural Assimilation: Sir George Grey's Encounter with the Maori and the Xhosa, 1845-1868," Journal of World History (1998): 89-106 "A Spirit of Resistance: Xhosa, Maori, and Sioux Responses to Western Dominance, 1840- 1920," Pacific Historical Review (1997): 21-52. Winner of the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch s Koontz Award for outstanding PHR article of 1997 Office Location: Institute of Peace and Justice (IPJ) 267 |
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Student Employee: |
Conor Griffin '09 (CEE Student Office Assistant) Major: Business Administration |
| CEE Advisory Committee includes CEE staff and: | Adriana Molitor (Arts and Sciences) |
| CEE Office Location: | Copley Library Office - Main Floor Phone: (619) 260-7402 Email: cee@sandiego.edu |
