Dr. Laura Harbolt earned a B.A. in English and History from Centre College, an M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky, and an Ed.D. in Leadership at Spalding University. She has experience as a secondary teacher in the public school system and an adjunct professor at Jefferson Community and Technical College. At the University of Louisville, Dr. Harbolt was senior lecturer in composition, the assistant coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program and completed thirty-three graduate hours in the rhetoric and composition program. She was co-author of a large grant to enhance undergraduate writing curriculum and was awarded an instructional grant to study teacher and student attitude to writing evaluation. She has presented papers at national conferences on writing assessment and pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, and locally on leadership strategies in hospice volunteer services. She has been published in the Journal of Scientific Psychology. Dr. Harbolt was National Sales Director at a corporate sales organization and is currently an Executive Director at a large, not-for-profit hospice and palliative care organization.
Courses taught/co-taught:
- EDD901 Leadership Theories and Academic Writing and Research
