Role at the Center:
Tracy L. Skipper is assistant director for publications for the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. In this role, she provides leadership for and management of the Center’s publishing efforts, which include a topical monograph series, a peer-reviewed journal, an electronic newsletter, and occasional print and electronic resources. Prior to her work at the Center, she served as director of residence life and judicial affairs at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, where her duties included teaching in the college’s first-year seminar program and serving as an academic advisor for first-year students. She also served as director of student activities and residence life at Wesleyan College. Skipper has taught both first-year English and University 101 at South Carolina. She edited (with Roxanne Argo) Involvement in Campus Activities and the Retention of First-Year College Students (2003) and wrote Student Development in the First College Year: A Primer for College Educators (2005). She has presented on the application of student development theory to curricular and co-curricular contexts and on the design and evaluation of writing assignments. Her research interests include the application of cognitive-structural development to composition pedagogy and the use of writing in first-year seminars.

Background & Accomplishments:

Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2009
M.A. in English, University of South Carolina, 2000
M.S. in Higher Education, Florida State University, 1993
B.S. in Psychology, University of South Carolina, 1991

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