Dr. Saundra McGuire
Teaching and Learning Workshops
College of Arts and Sciences
February 12-14, 2024
About the Speaker
Dr. McGuire is an internationally recognized chemical educator, author and lecturer who has travelled the globe promoting sure-fire strategies to help students, including those underrepresented in science and math professions, to be successful in their coursework and careers. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops at over 400 institutions in 47 states and ten countries.
Biography
Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success
and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at LSU. Prior to
joining LSU, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the
coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her book, Teach Students How to Learn:
Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study
Skills, and Motivation, was released in October 2015 and is a Stylus Publishing bestseller.
The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can
Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level, was released in January 2018.
The most recent of her honors include the 2019 Commitment to Excellence in Academic Support Award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). In 2017 she received the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students to Pursue Careers in the Chemical Sciences and induction into the LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction. She also received the 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Lifetime Mentor Award and the 2014 Lifetime Achieve- ment Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). She is an elected Fellow of the ACS, AAAS, and Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA). In November 2007 the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math- ematics, and Engineering Mentoring was presented to her in a White House Oval Office Ceremony. Additionally, she has achieved Level Four Lifetime Learning Center Leader- ship Certification through the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA).
Awards and Honors
- 2019 Suanne Davis Roueche Distinguished Lecturer Award, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
- 2019 Commitment to Excellence in Academic Support Award, American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
- 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
- 2017 LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction Inductee
- 2017 Esprit de Femme Award, LSU Women's Center
- 2015 Lifetime Mentor Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award, National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
- 2013 Inaugural Dean's Visiting Scholar, College of Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- 2012 Inaugural Ronald O. Ragsdale Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Utah
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA)
- 2011 Elected Fellow of AAAS
- 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award, College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA)
- 2010 Elected Fellow of ACS
- 2010 Awarded Lifetime Learning Center Leadership Certification by the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA)
- 2008 Distinguished Alumna, Southern University Department of Chemistry
- 2007 Invited Speaker, ACS Presidential Symposium in Honor of Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann's 70th Birthday
- 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
- 2002 Received the Outstanding Chemical Educator Award National Organization for Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)