Michael Hill

Dr. Hill earned his Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis on School Organization and Education Policy at the University of California, Davis. He holds a Master of Arts in Education from Chapman University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of San Francisco. He has taught a variety of research methods and statistics classes in the social sciences and for clinical programs at UC Davis, CSU Long Beach, University of Massachusetts Global, and American River College.

Dr. Hill’s research work focuses on policy and program evaluation in postsecondary education with a particular interest in technology-mediated instruction and non-traditional and underrepresented students. He is currently a researcher at the UC Irvine School of Education.

He has traveled extensively in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, co-teaching professional development for Chinese STEM teachers at the Beijing Institute of Education, Chaoyang Branch, and conducted a program evaluation as a Save the Children University Partnership for Education Research (SUPER) Fellow in the Philippines. 

Dr. Hill teaches/co-teaches the following courses in the MSCN program

• NUTR 201 Evidence-Based Practice and Scientific Inquiry
• NUTR 217, 221, and 222 Capstone I, II, and III