Christine Brown

Dr. Christine Brown is an Associate Teaching Professor and serves as the Director of the Brandywine Learning Center and the Writing Studio in the Student Academic Success Center. She also leads the Lion Guidez Peer Mentoring Program which helps incoming students successfully complete their first year of college, co-coordinates the First Year Seminar Program, and co-coordinates the Multilingual Student Course Cluster. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University, her master’s in Education from Cabrini University, and her doctorate in Higher Education from Immaculata University. Her doctoral dissertation, which won the Donald A Gratzke Award for Outstanding Higher Education Dissertation from the American Association of University Administrators, studied faculty beliefs about supporting college student success. She continues to use the insights from that study to guide her work.

Dr. Brown is committed to efforts that promote college student success in and out of the classroom and is interested in pedagogy and programs that support this aim. She views her role as being in a partnership with her students and enjoys guiding them on how to successfully navigate college life.