Bryant University. The Character of Success

Laurie Hazard

Laurie Hazard

Director, The Academic Center for Excellence and the Writing Center 

Curriculum Coordinator, 

Foundations for Learning (FFL 101)

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Applied Psychology

lhazard@bryant.edu

I have been working at Bryant University for over ten years. My area of expertise is examining the personality traits, habits, and attitudes of college students and how those variables contribute to academic success and achievement. My role at Bryant is to design programming at the University that is intended to enhance academic performance.

Foundations for Learning (FFL 101) is a course that was created to ensure first-year students’ smooth transition into the University. The programs and services at ACE and the Writing Center support ALL students in achieving academic success in their chosen curricula. Sometimes though, there are obstacles to student success. What I am particularly good at is working with students one-on-one to help them recognize and remove those obstacles.
 

Education:

Ed.D Boston University
Curriculum and Teaching
M.Ed. Boston University
Counseling
B.A. University of Rhode Island
Psychology (with honors)
Other Oxford Brooke University
Undergraduate Studies in Psychology

Selected Publications & Presentations:

  • Hazard, Laurie and Jean-Paul Nadeau.  Foundations for Learning, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2009.

  • Hazard, Laurie and Jean-Paul Nadeau. What Does it Mean to Be College-Ready? Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, Volume XX, Number 4, Winter 2006.

  • Hazard, Laurie and Jean-Paul Nadeau.  Give This First-Year Experience Course the Credit It Deserves, LAANE, Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 2000.

  • Hazard, Laurie and Jean-Paul Nadeau.  Foundations for Learning. Prentice-Hall, 2006.

  • Hazard, Laurie and Jean-Paul Nadeau, Bryant University Program Assessment in Tobolowsky, B. F., Cox, B. E., & Wagner, M. T. (Eds.). (2005). Exploring the Evidence, Volume III: Reporting Outcomes of First-Year Seminars (Monograph No. 42). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

  • Hazard, Laurie L.The Effect of Locus of Control and Attitudes Toward Intelligence on Study Habits of College Students. Dissertation. Boston University, 1997.

Awards:

  • Learning Assistance Association of New England - Outstanding Research and Publication Award, November, 2006

  • National Institute for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition Award - Top 10 Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate, 2006

  • Bryant University Athletic Department - 12th Man Award, 2000-2001

  • National Academic Advising Association - Institutional Award, 1992
Courses:
  •         Foundations for Learning
  •         Introduction to Psychology
  •         Psychology of Personality
  •         Abnormal Psychology
  •         Exercise and Sport Psychology

Workshops:

  •         Psychology of Procrastination
  •         Time Management
  •         Reading to Remember
  •         Test Preparation