Linda Suskie is a vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Prior positions include serving as associate vice president for assessment and institutional research at Towson University, near Baltimore, Maryland, and as director of the American Association for Higher Education’s Assessment Forum. Her nearly 30 years of experience in college and university administration include work in assessment, institutional research, and strategic planning at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, the State University of New York at Oswego, and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Suskie is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, and consultant on a broad variety of higher education assessment topics, including planning assessment programs, crafting learning goals, assessment tools, student learning styles, and using assessment results to improve teaching and learning. Her latest book is Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, published by Jossey-Bass. She holds a bachelor’s degree in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa.