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Schreiner Receives Graduate Scholarly Achievement Award
September 22, 2005
AZUSA, Calif. –
Glendora, Calif. resident Laurie Schreiner, Ph.D., director of the Center for Strengths-Based Education at Azusa Pacific University’s School of Education, recently received the 2005 Graduate Scholarly Achievement Award.
“Dr. Schreiner exudes scholarship in every aspect of her work at APU,” said Paul Gray, Ed.D., interim dean of APU’s School of Education. “She continuously challenges the status quo in raising the level of the culture and scholarship at the university and within the broader community of academe.”
Schreiner has more than 22 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member, associate academic dean, and research fellow. 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 freshmen and sophomores. She is co-author of the Student Satisfaction Inventory, a nationally named instrument used on more than 1,200 college and university campuses across the United States and Canada. Currently, she directs the national validity study of StrengthsFinder with college students. She is a senior fellow at the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities and directs a national project on student retention and satisfaction that involves 70 Christian colleges and universities annually.
Founded in 2003, Azusa Pacific University’s Center for Strengths-Based Education seeks to transform educational practices by equipping college and university faculty and staff to identify and nurture students’ strengths as the foundation for engaging students in the learning process and helping them to achieve excellence. Inspired by the vision behind StrengthsQuest: Discover and Develop Your Strengths in Academics, Career, and Beyond by Donald O. Clifton and Edward “Chip” Anderson, the center serves as a resource for research, consultation, and workshops to advance the strengths movement in higher education.
Featured in TIME magazine and ranked as one of the nation’s best by U.S.News & World Report and The Princeton Review, Azusa Pacific is a comprehensive, Christian, evangelical university, committed to God First and known for excellence in higher education. Azusa Pacific’s main campus lies just 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley, while its seven Southern California regional centers bring convenience and extend quality programming. The university offers more than 50 areas of undergraduate study, 22 master’s degrees, and 6 doctorates to a total student population of more than 8,100. For more information, call (800) 825-5278 or visit www.apu.edu.
