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Dr. Heather Vilhauer
Faculty member: Dr. Heather Vilhauer
Discipline: Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism
General description of Dr. Vilhauer’s expertise:
Heather Vilhauer is an Assistant Professor in the Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism Department. She teaches classes on youth development, leadership and management, and data-driven decision making. Her research interests include leadership and career development in parks and recreation, as well as disaster planning and relief in the public parks and recreation sector.
Prior to her work in education, she spent over 20 years working in nonprofit, public, and for-profit recreation in a variety of jobs including camp director and Director of Volunteer Resources for Girl Scouts of Northern California. She has degrees in recreation and business and a doctorate in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco.
Related majors for this project:
Open to all
Project:
This project is making use of the results of a survey of parks and recreation professionals in California. The survey focused on transformational leadership, leadership development, and career pathing and experiences in parks and recreation. Research assistants will work with the researcher to determine the exact focus of this study (and resulting publication).
Student-researcher expectations and responsibilities:
- Work a minimum of 3-5 hours per week on your research project (CSR Scholar requirement)
- Conduct literature reviews using the University library databases (focused on transformational leadership, career pathing, and leadership development)
- Code qualitative data from survey
- Analyze qualitative data from survey
- Manuscript writing
Next Steps:
Please contact Dr. Heather Vilhauer @ heather.vilhauer@csueastbay.