Dr. Carole Huston

Carole Logan Huston, PhD, University of Washington, serves as the Special Assistant to the Office of Academic Effectiveness and Institutional Research and a Professor of Communication at the University of San Diego (USD). Past positions at USD have included serving as an associate provost, an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, a department chair, and the inaugural director of the faculty development center. Focusing on accreditation, she has served as the institutional accreditation liaison, assistant chair for several institutional review teams, co-facilitator of the accrediting board’s major training program, and presenter of multiple conference presentations, webinars, and workshops. Her research interests have included competency assessments in general education, multi-institutional and multi-method learning assessment projects, integrative learning, program review, and assessing diversity and social justice within the curriculum. She has also authored two books and was the recipient of a University Professorship and the College Dean’s Teaching Excellence award.