Dr. Robert Shea

Services

• Change-management retention partnership
• Faculty Workshop
• FYE Consulting

Types of Institutions

• Four-year public
• Private
• Women’s

Dr. Shea works with faculty at the University of Rhode Island to increase student learning and success. Formerly he served as the Dean of the First Year Experience at Pine Manor College (PMC) and also served as the Director of Faculty and Leadership Curriculum Development at PMC’s Center for Inclusive Leadership and Social Responsibility and is an Associate Professor of Sociology.

Dr. Shea has a strong background in service-learning, community-based research, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). He has worked with the Carnegie Foundation on developing communities of practice for SoTL, and, recently, successfully authored a proposal to continue PMC’s work with Carnegie’s Institutional Leadership Program for the next three years.