Dr. Christine Harrington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Student Success in College: Doing What Works! 3rd edition. She also co-authored with Todd Zakrajsek Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness, and Designing a Motivational Syllabus: Creating a Learning Path for Student Engagement with Melissa Thomas, both published by Stylus. She is a contributing author of Foundations for Critical Thinking, published by the National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Transitions. Most recently, she co-authored, with Theresa Orosz, Why the First-Year Seminar Matters: Helping Students Choose and Stay on a Career Path. Dr. Harrington is frequently invited to present at conferences and at colleges and universities.