Rate My Professor Lisa Lambert

Lisa Lambert serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Student Leadership and Success Studies, School of Education, at Utah Valley University, a position she has held since 2007. With more than 30 years of experience in higher education, she earned a B.S. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Speech-Language Pathology from Brigham Young University in 1981 and an M.B.A. with emphases in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Strategy from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management in 1989. Her extensive career at Utah Valley University includes prior roles as Assistant Dean of University College from 2005 to 2007, where she directed the President’s Student Success and Retention Initiative and secured a $2 million Title III Grant for the Student Success and Retention Improvement Initiative in 2006; Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development from 1996 to 2004; Engaged Learning Faculty Fellow in 2013-2014, contributing to UVU’s Carnegie Foundation classification as a community-engaged university; and adjunct faculty since 1994. She has held leadership positions such as Director of the Executive MBA Program at BYU's Marriott School of Management from 1988 to 1992 and Academic Administrator in BYU's College of Education from 1984 to 1988.

Lambert's research interests encompass resilience in college students, trauma-informed pedagogy, first-year seminars and student success strategies, engaged learning, and teaching the whole student. She teaches courses including SLSS 1000 University Student Success, SLSS 1100 Stress Management, SLSS 1200 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, SLSS 1400 Dimensions of Engaged Learning, and various leadership mentoring classes. Her scholarly presentations include "Preserving Personal Archives, A Case Study" at the 2023 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums; "First Year Students Unprepared for University: How Do We Conceptualize a Reflective, Critical, Democratic Curriculum for a First-Year Experience?" at the Far West Philosophy of Education Society in 2010; and "Power and Resistance in Peer Mentoring Relationship Dynamics" at the First Annual Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement in 2009. Lambert has received grants such as the LDS Foundation Grant for UVU Student Success and UV Mentor Program, a Research Grant determining effects of peer mentors on retention and academic success, and Faculty and Staff Exceptional Merit Grants. She was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Educator Award. Her service includes Faculty Senate representative, multiple search committees, curriculum development teams, and strategic planning committees.