Linda Adler-Kassner is Associate Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Writing Studies at UC Santa Barbara. In her capacity as accreditation liaison officer, she is in the end stages of a collaborative two-year equity-focused study of students’ navigation through majors at UCSB.

Adler-Kassner’s research focuses on how different parties involved in education — faculty, students, administrators, community members — define “good learning,” and the implications of those definitions for teaching, learning, assessment, and public policy. She is author, co-author, or co-editor of 14 books and dozens of articles and book chapters, including Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts in Writing and Literacy (co-authored/edited with Elizabeth Wardle). Her latest book (also with Wardle and published by the WAC Clearinghouse) is Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines.

Adler-Kassner has taught undergraduate and graduate composition courses for more than 30 years. She is a former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, composition’s largest disciplinary association, and former President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.