Dr. Liza Bolitzer is an experienced researcher, teacher and project manager dedicated to advancing teaching and learning in higher education. She uses qualitative methods to study how college faculty, institutional leaders, and higher education professionals can advance college students' academic learning. She has shared her work in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and The Journal of Faculty Development.

As an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Kean University, she teaches graduate level courses on qualitative methods and educational leadership and collaborates with her faculty colleagues on advancing support for doctoral students.