Jeremy Houska

Jeremy Houska serves as the Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation Liaison Officer. Prior to returning to his undergraduate alma mater, he served in a variety of faculty and administrative roles including Vice President for Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Design and tenured Associate Professor of Psychology.

Houska has led change initiatives in the areas of institutional research and academic affairs using an adaptive shared leadership approach. He has empowered teams and learning communities to use data for continuous improvement.

His teaching has been recognized by a number of awards, including the Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s (Division 2 of the American Psychological Association) Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. His experiences teaching the Introduction to the Psychology Major course for a first-year majors cohort, developing course-based undergraduate research experiences, involvement in athletics, Greek Life and student government greatly influenced Success as a Psychology Major (co-authored with David Copeland).

Houska earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, M.A. in general-experimental psychology from California State University, San Bernardino, and B.S. in psychology from the University of La Verne. He is a graduate of the WSCUC Accreditation Leadership Academy (ALA) – Cohort XI.