R. Eric Landrum is a professor of psychology at Boise State University, receiving his PhD in cognitive psychology from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. His research interests center on the educational conditions that best facilitate student success as well as the use of SoTL strategies to advance the efforts of scientist-educators. He has over 300 professional presentations at conferences and has published over 20 books/book chapters and over 70 professional articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. He has worked with over 275 undergraduate research assistants and taught over 12,500 students in 20 years at Boise State. During Summer 2008, he led an American Psychological Association working group at the National Conference for Undergraduate Education in Psychology studying the desired results of an undergraduate psychology education.
Eric is the lead author of The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success (4th ed., 2009), also authored Undergraduate Writing in Psychology: Learning to Tell the Scientific Story (2008) and Finding Jobs With a Psychology Bachelor's Degree: Expert Advice for Launching Your Career (2009). He co-authored An EasyGuide to APA Style (2011), You’ve Earned Your Doctorate in Psychology...Now What? (2012), and was the lead editor for Teaching Ethically—Challenges and Opportunities(2012) and co-editor of Assessing Teaching and Learning in Psychology: Current and Future Perspectives (2013). He served as Vice President for the Rocky Mountain region of Psi Chi (2009-2011). He is a member of the American Psychological Association, a fellow in APA’s Division Two (Society for the Teaching of Psychology or STP), served as STP secretary (2009-2011) and will serve as the 2014 STP President.
Greetings! My name is Eric Landrum, and I’ve been a professor in the Department of Psychology at Boise State University for 20 years. Not that long ago, I was serving on a search committee and sitting in yet another session of telephone interviews where my department was hiring a new assistant professor.
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