Jeremy Houska

Jeremy Houska serves as the Director of Educational Effectiveness. In this role, he supports the University’s efforts to enhance a culture of inquiry and evidence, and a spirit of continuous improvement for student success.

Prior to the University of La Verne, he enjoyed serving in a variety of faculty and administrative roles including Vice President for Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Design, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, as well as a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology.

His teaching has been recognized by a number of awards, including the Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s (Division 2 of the American Psychological Association) Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. His experiences teaching the Introduction to the Psychology Major course for first-year students, and redesigning the Introductory Psychology course for psychology majors motivated the textbook, Success as a Psychology Major.

Houska earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, M.A. in general-experimental psychology from California State University, San Bernardino, and B.S. in psychology from the University of La Verne. Jeremy is a graduate of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy (ALA) – Cohort XI. He currently serves on the California Association for Institutional Research (CAIR) Board of Directors.

When he isn’t writing about himself in the third-person, he enjoys cooking, taking in sunrises and sunsets, music, and the next adventure with his partner Nadia (class of ’02). They live in Long Beach with their cat, Smoke.