Timothy Charles Brown Professional Biography         Click here for Civic Biography
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       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       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	Extended Bio| Brief Bio |Micro Bio         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 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 co-authored the popular MyReadingLab available from Pearson  as well as the Prentice Hall Textbook Reader. 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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