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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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