Lydia Frass is the director for assessment and online learning with the University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Dr. Frass coordinates programming and support for the college’s degree program assessment and online learning initiatives; co-facilitates the CAS Distributed Learning Advisory Board; provides strategic support to CAS’s Office of Undergraduate Studies (OUS); and supervises OUS’s undergraduate student services and advisement assistants & interns. She serves as the CAS representative to the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Analytics Assessment Advisory Committee; DoIT Flagship Analytics Council; and the Office of Distributed Learning’s Distributed Learning Working Group. Prior to joining CAS, she worked in the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence as senior instructional designer where she facilitated & coordinated the Distributed Learning Working Group, consulted with faculty in online course design, facilitated various online learning workshops, and developed the Carolina Online Learning & Teaching (COLT) certificate.