Christie Hand is committed to ensuring that higher education is relevant and accessible to all. Towards this end, she is enthusiastic about trying new models and approaches which help to increase the reach of higher education and enable greater success. She worked in Cameroon, West Africa, for six years in linguistics and has 25 years of experience in higher education. Christie worked at Future Generations from 2007 to 2019 and is thrilled to be teaching in the master’s program again. Christie now lives in California and works with a pre-medical master’s program at Touro University California in the Bay Area.

• “A Case Study of Makerere University through the Lens of U.S. Land-Grant Higher Education” – Association of the Study of Higher Education – November 2022
• “Coaching/Mentoring Medical Students-The Master Adaptive learner” -Touro University California – May 2021 “Best Practices in Prior Learning Assessment” – Higher Learning Commission – April 2019

• Hand, C., A Case Study of Makerere University in Uganda, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, Spring 2025. In Press.
• Hand, C. and Payne, E. First-Generation College Students: A Study of Appalachian Student Success, Journal of Developmental Education, 32 (1), Fall 2008.
• Hodges, R. and Hand, C. Teaching in Postsecondary Institutions: An Interview with Dr. Wilbert McKeachie, Journal of Developmental Education, 28 (3), Spring 2005.
• Hand, C. and Payne, E. First-Generation College Students: A Study of Appalachian Student Success, Journal of Developmental Education, 32 (1), Fall 2000.