Biography
Bryce is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Counseling and Career Center at Brigham Young University and former Associate Director for First-Year Mentoring. He has extensive experience in orientation, first-year seminars, admissions, academic support, and academic advising. Bryce holds a doctorate in instructional design from BYU. He resides in Provo with his wife, Shuri and their two daughters.
Research Interests
First Generation Student SuccessNoncognitive factors & their role in student success
Transformative learning
Success in the first-year of college
Peer learning and peer tutoring
Peer leadership as a high-impact practice
New theoretical frameworks for understanding college transitions
Teaching Interests
Effective study & learningEducational Psychology
Learning Theory
UNIV 101
Education
- Phd, Educational Psychology , Brigham Young University (2014)
- MS, Instructional Design , Brigham Young University (2011)
- BS, Exercise Science , Coaching, Brigham Young University (2006)
Licenses and Certifications
- Utah State Office of Education, Utah Public School Teaching License (2006 - 2009)
Honors and Awards
- Affiliate Scholar, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (2022 - 2024)
- 2018 Community-Sponsored Conference Presentation, National Academic Advising Associatioin (NACADA) (2018 - 2018)
- Graduate Student Researcher of the Year, BYU Department of Instructional Psychology & Technology (2014 - 2015)
- Best Presentation Award, Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research (RMAIR) (2013 - 2013)
- Graduate Student Researcher of the Year, BYU Department of Instructional Psychology & Technology (2012 - 2013)
Administrative Assignments
- Office of First-year Experience: Director (2022 - Present)
- First-Year Mentoring: Associate Director (2014 - 2016)
Memberships
- American Association of Colleges and Universities (2022 - Present)
- Utah First-Year Experience Consortium (2015 - Present)
- Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) (2014 - Present)
- Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education (NODA) (2007 - Present)
- National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) (2016 - 2020)
- American College Personnel Association (ACPA) (2015 - 2020)
- National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) (2015 - 2016)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2014 - 2016)
Professional Citizenship
- Board Member, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transtition (2019 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (2015 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Peer Assisted Study Session National Centre (2014 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, College Student Educators International (ACPA) (2015 - 2020)
- Board Member, Commission for Admissions, Orientation, & First-Year Experience (2015 - 2020)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Florida Atlantic University (2018 - 2019)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, High Point University (2017 - 2019)
- Committee/Council Member, Facilities Advisory Committee, Provo School District (2018 - 2018)
- Committee/Council Member, Provost Elementary School (2016 - 2018)
- Committee/Council Chair, Utah First-Year Experience Consortium (2015 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Educational Research Association (2016 - 2017)
- Publications-outreach, ACPA Commission for Admissions, Orientation, & First-Year Experience (2016 - 2016)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (2015 - 2016)
- Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (2015 - 2015)
- Other, Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling (2013 - 2014)