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Dr. Brown received
his Doctorate from Pepperdine University in 1997. He
holds two Masters Degrees, one in reading and
language arts from California State University,
Fullerton and the other in physical education from
University of Texas Pan American (formerly Pan
American University). He graduated from Arizona
State University with a major in physical education
and a minor in reading education.
Dr. Brown currently
holds the academic rank of Full Professor at
Riverside City College has been a faculty member
since 1984. His area of interest is teaching
critical thinking skills through reading. Dr. Brown
has held a variety of appointments throughout his 28
years of service including English and Speech
Communication Department Chair, Faculty Co-chair of
the Academic Planning Council, Faculty Co-chair of
the Strategic Planning Council, and Academic
Senator.
Dr. Brown has extensive background in on-line
delivery of curriculum. He was one of the pioneers
in developing basic skills courses for on-line
delivery in California community colleges. His
Reading Skills III course at RCC was among the first
remedial courses in reading to be developed and
delivered completely on-line. In 2011, Dr. Brown was
appointed to the Accreditation Commission for
Community and Junior Colleges. He occupies one of
five faculty seats on the nineteen-member
Commission. Dr. Brown was appointed to a three-year
term and is eligible for reappointment to a second
three-year term in 2014.
Dr.
Brown co-authored the popular MyReadingLab
available from Pearson. The computer program
utilizes lexiles to assess the reading ability of
the student as well as the reading difficulty of the
text. Using the same measure for both has lead to
greater accuracy in matching the student’s
readability with the level of difficulty of the
print. In addition, Dr. Brown authored the
Prentice Hall Textbook Reader. The reader
includes an extensive introduction explaining the
metacognitive approach to reading, ten comprehension
strategies designed for expository print,
instructions on how to implement each strategy, and
practice textbook chapters taken from Pearson's
best selling textbooks. Dr. Brown’s latest
publication will be the Content Area Reader’s
Handbook which is due for publication by
Pearson in early 2012.
Dr. Brown has made
numerous presentations and conducted workshops for
professional organizations throughout the western
United States and England including the California
State Academic Senate Plenary and Institutes, the
Oxford Roundtable, and the College Reading and
Learning Association. Dr. Brown is the Principal of
Tim Brown and Associates. TBA is a consulting
consortium based in southern California specializing
in basic skills, accreditation, and ERP end user
training, and program assessment for community and
junior colleges. |
