Dr. Victoria Quijano (she, her, hers) is the Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer at EDvance College. With over 27 years in higher education, Dr. Quijano brings a breadth of knowledge and experience to EDvance College. She recently retired from San Francisco State University where she served as full-time faculty and the Director of Undergraduate Community Practice. She designed and taught numerous public health courses and gravitated towards those that focused on writing and skill development. Her academic focus involves strengthening the integration of general education skills across the curriculum and within public health. She was instrumental in embedding writing support and skill development into disciplinary courses.
Dr. Quijano began working with EDvance in 2013 as a consultant, supporting curriculum development and leading the Faculty Learning Community. Dr. Quijano led the curriculum redesign process for EDvance's seamless transition into a standalone institution of higher education and was instrumental in . In this capacity, she directed the sequencing, aligning, and evaluation of EDvance College's signature curriculum in close collaboration with the College's leadership team and the Faculty Learning Community (FLC). Dr. Quijano’s ideological commitment to student-centered and experiential learning guides her teaching, coaching, and developmental practices. As a curriculum developer, she specializes in sequencing and scaffolding learning experiences and outcomes across the curriculum, with a particular focus on assessment, accreditation alignment, writing across the curriculum, and writing in the disciplines. Applying a liberation education framework and approach in her teaching drives Dr. Quijano’s mission as a professor, administrator, and educational designer.
Dr. Quijano earned her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State University. She also earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) from San Jose State University and a BS degree in Health Education from San Francisco State University.
Dr. Quijano’s passion for teaching and learning stems from her experience as a first-generation, single-parenting college student who wouldn’t have succeeded without mentors, student support services, financial aid, and pedagogical experts who inspired her love of reading, writing, teaching, and learning.
