Eric Moyen
Director of First-Year Programs

Ph.D., University of Kentucky
M.A., University of Alabama
B.S., Taylor University

Dr. Eric Moyen joined the Helen DeVos College of Education in the fall of 2004. He is currently serving as the Director of First Year programs and an associate professor of education.

Along with his teaching duties in the Helen DeVos College of Education, Moyen has served as coordinator of the "teaching coaches" faculty development initiative, and he has initiated the Lee University Oral History Project. He has also conducted research on the impact of international education experiences while directing cross-cultural student-teaching trips to Greece and Ghana.

His other research and writing interests focus on history and policy in higher education. He has published a biography of educational reformer Frank L. McVey with the University Press of Kentucky and is currently editing a new textbook for freshmen with Matthew Melton, Dean of Lee's College of Arts and Sciences. His essays and reviews have appeared in the History of Education Quarterly and Insidehighered.com.

Moyen also serves as the primary professor of pedagogy and Lee University liaison for a number of Teach American History grants. These grants provide professional development for K-12 school teachers in Southeast Tennessee who are seeking to improve their teaching of American history.

Moyen's efforts in the office of First-Year Programs have focused on strengthening peer-leadership and service-learning. He also serves on the Board of Directors at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland, Tennessee.