Valerie Osland Paton, Ph.D.
Email: valerie.paton@ttu.edu
Phone: 806-470-3667
Office: Education 324
Valerie Paton serves as a tenured Professor in Tech's College of Education and teaches in the master's and doctoral programs in Higher Education. Recent teaching areas include policy, assessment and evaluation, crisis management and law. Her research interests include higher education policy and law, community engagement, online learning, vertical transfer from community college to universities. Paton's funded research has included three HSI STEM awards in partnership with community colleges and an Educate Texas STEM Degree Accelerator award.
In 2011, Paton was recognized as an “Integrated Scholar” at Texas Tech. During 2012-13, Paton was a Fellow with the American Council of Education and her host institution is Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso.
In addition to her faculty role, Paton has extensive experience leading institutional initiatives related to strategic planning and success, academic and administrative assessment, academic program review, institutional research and accountability. She has served at three institutions as the regional accreditation liaison and has been appointed to several accreditation or reaffirmation teams. Other academic leadership roles include development of academic and student affairs at a newly accredited institution; student information system deployment; development of an institutional ethics office; and supervision of academic facility planning and scheduling, libraries, faculty development, and community partnerships. She has served in a variety of institutions, including AAU private, small church-related, large public, and health sciences institutions.
Paton has been honored to serve in the following roles: Chair of APLU's Council on Engagement and Outreach Executive Committee, Board member of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), co-chair of the 2013 ESC Annual Conference held at Texas Tech, Executive Committee member of Texas Women in Higher Education, and Public Board member of the U.S. Department of Education's accreditor for nursing – the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Education
- B.A. in American Studies, San Jose State University
- M.A. Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University
- Ph.D. in Education, University of Southern California
Areas of Expertise
- Higher education policy and law
- Community Engagement
- Online learning
- Planning, assessment, and evaluation
Selected Publications
Paton, V. & Louder, J. (Forthcoming). Student affairs assessment in the context of a significantly or predominantly online institution. In Mitchell, A. & Dixon, K. (Eds.). New Directions in Student Services. Student affairs assessment: Building on the past, navigating the present, envisioning the future. San Francisco: CA: Jossey-Bass.
Ryan, P., Matteson, S., & Paton, V.O. (2019). Learning to collaborate: Intersections of the classroom and community. In York, T., Tinkler, A., Tinkler, B., & Jagla, V. (Eds.) Service-Learning to Advance Access & Success: Bridging Institutional and Community Capacity. Association of Educational Research Association's (AERA) Advances in Service-Learning Series. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Paton, V., Elliott, R.W., Barnard-Brak, L., Ryan, P.M. (2015, Spring). Vertical transfer success: Hispanic student perceptions of transfer and transition issues. Journal for College Orientation and Transfer, 22(2), pp. 40-60.
Paton, V., Fitzgerald, H., Green, B., Raymond, M., & Borchardt, M. P. (2014, December). U.S. higher education regional accreditation commission standards and the centrality of engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 18(4).
Paton, V.O., Dizinno, G., & Mathew, R. (2011). Advocating for a valid method for “value added” research in a political context. In H. Burley (Ed.), Cases on institutional research systems. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Barnard-Brak, L., Paton, V.O., & Lan, W. Y. (2010). Profiles in self-regulated learning in the online learning environment. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 11(1).
Barnard-Brak, L., Paton, V. O., & Lan, W. Y. (2010). Self-regulation across time of first-generation online learners.Journal of Association of Learning and Technology, 18(1), 61-70. Note: Journal was renamed and is now Research in Learning Technology.
Barnard, L., Lan, W., To, Y., Paton, V., & Lai, S. (2009). Measuring self-regulation in online and blended learning environments. Internet and Higher Education,12(1).
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