School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences

Sarah Visser, M.Ed., joined the Department of Leadership and College Student Development as an assistant professor in July 2012. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Prior Learning Assessment faculty member in the School of Adult and Professional Studies. Before her arrival at APU, she spent the majority of her professional career working with traditional undergraduate students in the realm of student affairs, most recently as associate dean of campus life at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She has a passion for engaging in scholarship around diversity and social justice issues, with specializations in gender studies, organizational culture, identity development, class consciousness, and white privilege. She's completing her doctoral studies in higher education at Claremont Graduate University, where her research focuses on organizational implications of diversity.