Our Services
- Student Ratings of Instruction
- Assesses effectiveness by focusing on learning and curricular objectives.
- Feedback for Department Chairs
- Comprises the only nationally normed tool for evaluating chairpersons.
- Chair Coaching Service
- Guiding chairs through an individualized process of professional discovery and reflection.
- Feedback for Administrators
- Considers impressions of stakeholders on 10 pivotal characteristics.
About Virginia S. Lee
Virginia S. Lee is principal and senior consultant of Virginia S. Lee & Associates, a consulting firm based in Durham, NC, specializing in teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. She has special expertise in inquiry-guided learning, course and curriculum development, and the planning and implementation of institution-wide undergraduate education reform efforts including quality enhancement plans. Over the past three years she has worked with over forty colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and the Middle East. She is also Past President of the Professional & Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, the largest professional organization for faculty and educational developers in higher education in North America. In addition, she is one of four consultants in Dee Fink & Associates, a firm that offers workshops on integrated course design for significant learning.
Previously, Lee served as Associate Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, North Carolina State University, and Director, Graduate Student Teaching Programs, and Consultant, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Earlier, while living in New York City, she held administrative positions with the American Montessori Society and the New York City Outward Bound Center that integrates adventure- and service-based learning into curriculum in New York City high schools. She became interested in education as a career through extensive volunteer work in adult literacy programs in the 1980s.
She is on the editorial review boards of Innovative Higher Education, The Journal of Faculty Development, and To Improve the Academy. She is the editor of Teaching and Learning through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors (Stylus; 2004) that describes key aspects of the inquiry-guided learning initiative at NC State, which she led. She presents nationally and internationally and publishes on a variety of issues concerning teaching and learning in higher education.
She received a Ph.D. (Educational Psychology), University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill; M.B.A., Stern School, New York University; and B.A. cum laude (English Literature), Smith College.
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