Amber Casolari
Associate Professor of Economics/Director of the Glenn Hunt Center for Teaching Excellence
4800 Magnolia Ave.
Riverside, CA 92506
Amber.Casolari@rcc.edu
Phone:(951) 222-8137
Background Information
Amber Casolari is an associate professor of economics at Riverside City College. She is also the Faculty Development Coordinator and is the founding director of the Glenn Hunt Center for Teaching Excellence. In this position she is responsible for creating an array of professional development workshops for over 300 full-time and over 600 part-time faculty. Amber earned her Ph.D. in economics in 2001 from the University of California at Riverside. Her fields of specialization are US Poverty, Political Economy, Money and Financial Institutions, and Economic Development.Amber has coauthored a foundational economics text entitled "The First Chapter". In addition, she coauthored a writing-across-the-curriculum manual for faculty entitled "Writing is Learning". She is currently working on a paper that explores why community college students withdraw from courses at Riverside City College.