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Dr. Liza Ann Bolitzer, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Office Location
407 Hennings Hall
Email
lbolitze@kean.edu

Dr. Bolitzer is an experienced researcher, teacher and project manager dedicated to advancing teaching and learning in higher education. She uses qualitative methods to study how college faculty, institutional leaders, and higher education professionals can advance college students' academic learning. She has shared her work in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and The Journal of Faculty Development.

As an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Kean University, she teaches graduate level courses on qualitative methods and educational leadership and collaborates with her faculty colleagues on advancing support for doctoral students.

Education

  • Ed.D. in Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Ed.M. in Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • M.A. in English Literature, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Courses Taught

  • Computer Applications in Education
  • Dissertation Support Seminar
  • Qualitative Methods

Selected Publications

Castillo-Montoya, M., Bolitzer, L.A. & S. Sotto-Santiago (2023). Reimagining Faculty Development: Activating Faculty Learning for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In L. Perna (ed) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. New York: Springer.

Bolitzer, L.A. (2021). “A two-way street”: Adjunct faculty’s learning from and with students about subject matter. College Teaching, 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2021.1901067

Bolitzer, L.A. (2020) Seeing Inside: Accessing Faculty’s Beliefs about Teaching through Interviews and Classroom Observation. Teachers College Record. ID Number: 23500

Bolitzer, L.A. (2019) What we know (and don’t know) about adjunct faculty as teachers: An analytic literature review. The Review of Higher Education. 43(1), 113–142. DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2019.0092

Bolitzer, L.A. (2019) “I really wanted to attend but it never happened”: Instructional development for adjunct faculty. The Journal of Faculty Development. 33(2), 69–76.

Bolitzer, L.A., Christensen, M. & Williams, L. (2019) Entering the work of higher education: A study of novice practitioners’ learning. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. 56(4), 394–408 DOI: 10.1080/19496591.2019.1622549