Tricia Lauer serves as the Vice President of Assessment & Curricular Affairs for The University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC). She leads the Office of Assessment & Curricular Affairs, where she brings curricular and assessment expertise, knowledge of program review and educational effectiveness, expertise in evaluating of student data metrics and making proper inferences about their meaning as it relates to learning and curriculum, high-quality learning experiences, and leadership skills to foster an institutional culture that places the highest value on student learning achievement, retention, and completion.

Tricia brings more than 12 years of experience in higher education to UAGC. She served as the Point Loma Nazarene University School of Education director of assessment and accreditation, where she led faculty teams spanning traditional campus and online modalities whose primary goals were to support a culture of inquiry aimed at academic quality and rigor. She has presented at and served on various panels for conferences and symposiums, speaking on topics ranging from quality assurance to innovative technologies to support assessment practices. 

Recently, Tricia served as a member of the Credential Transparency Initiative, a Lumina Foundation-funded effort which resulted in the Credential Engine, whose mission was to research and initiate the development of a centralized registry of credential information, a common credentialing language, and a credential search engine. 

Tricia is a graduate of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) Assessment Leadership Academy, where her primary focus was on engaging associate (adjunct) faculty in outcomes assessment.