Timothy Charles Brown
Professional Biography
 

 
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    Professor, Reading,
    Riverside City College
       Department Chair, English and  
         Speech Communication
       ▪ Accreditation Liaison Officer
       ▪ Academic Senator
       ▪ Faculty Co-chair, Academic
         Planning Council
       ▪ Faculty Co-chair, Strategic
         Planning Committee
 
    Part-time Graduate Faculty,
    California State University Fullerton
    College of Education
    Reading Department
 
    Principal
    Tim Brown and Associates
 

    Commissioner, Accrediting
    Commission for Community and
    Junior Colleges. Appointment date
    July, 2011 through June 2014.
 
     Evaluation Team for Accreditation
     Renewal of Sacramento City
     College, Fall 2009, Accrediting
     Commission for Community and
     Junior Colleges
 
     Evaluation Team for Accreditation
     Renewal of Oxnard College
     College, Fall 2010, Accrediting
     Commission for Community and
     Junior Colleges
 
 
    The Content Area Reader's
    Handbook (tentative completion date
    Jan 2012)
 
    MyReadingLab,
    Prentice Hall Publishers
 
    The Prentice Hall Textbook Reader
    Prentice Hall Publishers
 
    Companion Web Site for Reading
    With Meaning
by Dorothy Hennings.
    Prentice Hall Publishers
 
    Doctoral Dissertation: "Descriptive
    Analysis of Evaluation Models for
    Distance Education Courses Which
    Utilize the Television as the Delivery
    Mode: Implications for Evaluating
    Broadcasts in Literacy Skills for
    Adults in Marginalized Groups in the
    DE9"
       ▪ Abstract
       ▪ Preliminary Defense
       ▪ Final Defense
 
    Oxford Round Table
       ▪ Literacy: Educational Strategies
         Initiatives
       ▪ PowerPoint Presentation
 
 
   ASCCC Student Success Institute
   Basic Skills Across the Curriculum
   "Teaching Students How to Read
   Your Textbook"

   San Jose, CA, February, 2011
  
 
   California State Academic Senate 
   Spring Plenary, May 2009 Panelist:
   "Reading Competency: Where Does it
   Stand?"

  
   Spring Plenary, May, 2006 Panelist:
   “Are We Ready for a  Reading
    Requirement?”
   
Panelist:
   “Where You’re Going Is Where
    You Have Been:
 
  Part II of Getting Basic Skills
    Students Started Easy and Often,
    Pretty Good Practices”
 
   "From Research to Debate:
   Collaborative Groups Broaden
   Their Perspectives"

   College Reading
   and Learning Association,
   Albuquerque, New Mexico, October,
   2003
 

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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, Academic Senator, Accreditation Liaison Officer, Assessment Coordinator, Special Assistant to the President and Head Baseball Coach.

Dr. Brown has also served as a part-time faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at the California State University, Fullerton. He taught Teaching Reading and Thinking in the Content Areas and Testing and Evaluation of Reading Performance to graduate students working on Masters Degrees in reading and certification for teaching reading at the community college level. Dr. Brown taught at CSUF from 1999 to 2009. Prior to that, Dr. Brown served as a part-time member at the University of La Verne. He taught Educational Leadership to graduate students pursuing an Administrative Credential in the California public schools.

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. He also has developed the Testing and Evaluation of Reading course at CSUF for on-line delivery as well. Dr. Brown first developed an interest in distance education while conducting research on his dissertation. The research was based on a UNESCO Distance Education Initiative for the Nine High Population Countries. The objective was to create a model to evaluate the effectiveness for delivering adult literacy skills by television broadcast. Dr. Brown has taught at least one on-line class every semester since 1996.

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. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) accredits associate degree granting institutions in the Western region of the U.S. ACCJC operates under the corporate entity the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The ACCJC is one of seven regional accrediting commissions. The ACCJC is authorized to operate by the U.S. Department of Education through the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008.

 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.

 

 
 

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