Dr. Terrell L. Strayhorn

Terrell Strayhorn is Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Psychological and Counseling. He has teaching responsibilities in both the master's College Student Personnel program and the doctoral Higher Education Administration Program. Strayhorn's teaching and research interests include but are not limited to assessing student learning and development in colleges, student persistence, higher education and policy, and the intersectionality of race and class in America with an emphasis on the way in which such factors influence specific outcomes in college.

Strayhorn is the principal author of Frameworks for Assessing Learning and Development Outcomes (2006) and other recent publications such as "Democratic education and public universities in America (2005) and "Crime on Virginia's College and University Campuses (Janosik, Gregory, & Strayhorn, 2005).

Strayhorn received his B.A. degree from The University of Virginia, his M.Ed. degree in Educational Policy from the Curry School of Education at The University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Virginia Tech. He has served as instructor or graduate teaching assistant at The University of Virginia, Marymount University, and Virginia Tech.