D Scott Tharp

D. Scott Tharp, Ph.D., M.S.W., has worked inhigher education for over ten years with a focus on social justice education, learning assessment, and program evaluation. As a scholar-practitioner, hisresearch focuses on all aspects of social justice ducation, includingcurriculum design, facilitation, and assessment. He currently serves the DePaulUniversity community as the Assessment & Effectiveness Specialist for theDivision of Student Affairs. Previously, Dr. Tharp served DePaul as AssociateDirector within the former Center for Intercultural Programs where he oversawthe Center's curricular social justice education program and workshopinitiatives, created and facilitated diversity and social justice educationworkshops for students, faculty, staff, and community partners, and coordinateda new online education initiative. Before that, Dr. Tharp served as the ProgramCoordinator in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at Columbia CollegeChicago.

Dr. Tharp is an active scholar-practitionerwho has published articles in the Journal of Transformative Education, Multicultural Education, Multicultural Perspectives, Change Magazine, AboutCampus Magazine, and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. He is a member of the Association for the Study ofHigher Education (ASHE) and an invited speaker at NCORE - the NationalConference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education. He also servedon the National Advisory Committee for NCORE from 2014-2017.