School of Education

Phone: (626) 815-5349
Fax: (626) 815-5408
Email: lschreiner@apu.edu

Laurie Schreiner, Ph.D., directs the doctoral programs in Higher Education. Her 25 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member, associate academic dean, and research fellow provide a strong experiential foundation for her teaching. Her primary interests include student satisfaction and retention, strengths-based education, Christian higher education, campus climate and sense of community, and the programming needs of first-year students and sophomores. She is co-author of the Student Satisfaction Inventory, a nationally normed instrument used on more than 1,600 college and university campuses across the United States and Canada. She was also a project director on two federal grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) through the U.S. Department of Education; the first focused on successful programming for first-year college students and the second grant focused on the development of a campus-wide four-year strengths education program to increase student retention and success. Currently she is a senior research associate for the Gallup Organization and has completed the national validity study of StrengthsFinder with college students, along with the second edition of the book StrengthsQuest: Discover and Develop Your Strengths in Academics, Career, and Beyond. She is a Senior Fellow at the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities and directs a national project on student retention and satisfaction, the Comprehensive Assessment Project, which involves 70 Christian colleges and universities annually.

Ph.D. - Community Psychology, University of Tennessee
B.A. - Milligan College

Publications
StrengthsQuest: Discover and Develop Your Strengths in Academics, Career, and Beyond (2006)

The Student Satisfaction Inventory (1994)

“Strengths-Based Advising: A New Lens for Higher Education” in the National Academic Advising Association Journal (2005)

“Quality and Frequency of Faculty-Student Interaction as Predictors of Learning: An Analysis by Student Race/Ethnicity” in the Journal of College Student Development (2004)

"The Role of Student Satisfaction in the Assessment of Institutional Effectiveness" (2004) in T. Banta (Ed.), Hallmarks of effective assessment programs. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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The Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1998
FIPSE Grant for $168,000, 1998
FIPSE Grant for $464,000, 2000
Senior Fellow, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, 2002
Senior Research Associate, The Gallup Organization, 2003
Who’s Who Among American Women, 1994