Faculty Advisor Program

The MyFamilyLab Faculty Advisor Program is a peer-to-peer mentoring program that partners experienced MySocLab users with new and potential users to further enhance their knowledge, skill and understanding of how to successfully integrate MyFamilyLab in the classroom. Our Faculty Advisors (FAs) are committed to advancing the support for online learning and sharing their best practices with the MyFamilyLab community.

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  Carol Holdt

  Senior Instructor
  Portland State University
  MyFamilyLab, MySocLab

  Carol Holdt is originally from Seattle, where she studied computer science at North Seattle Community College in the late 1970s. She worked as a systems analyst in the Seattle area for nearly 15 years. Moving to Portland, Oregon, in the 1990s gave Carol the chance to rethink her life goals and return to college. As a graduate student at Portland State University, she began teaching sociology courses. Within a few years, Carol created a blend of her old and new passions through teaching with technology. She has taught traditional, hybrid, and fully online sociology courses using various Pearson products for nearly 15 years.

  Carol has served as PSU's Faculty in Residence for Online Learning as well as the sociology department's Coordinator of Online Instruction.

  Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology, Minorities, Marriage & Intimacy, Youth In Transition service-learning “capstone” course.

  Course format: Traditional, Hybrid and Online

  Book in use: Schwartz/Scott's Marriages and Families; Pearson Custom version of Yetman's Majority & Minority; Kimmel/Aronson's Sociology Now: The Essentials

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