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Dr. Tyson Holder

Adjunct Instructor & Nationally Certified School Psychologist

College of DuPage


Dr. Tyson Holder is a nationally certified school psychologist, public speaker, author, and adjunct psychology instructor at the College of DuPage. He obtained his Ed.D. (educational leadership and administration and educational psychology) from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and his Ed.S. (school psychology) and M.S. (college student affairs) from Eastern Illinois University. Dr. Holder has more than 15 years of higher education experience, working in a variety of student and academic support roles (i.e., tutoring, Student Support Services-TRiO programs, and multicultural enrichment programing). Dr. Holder has published research regarding college student retention and persistence efforts at the community college level and is the author of Changing the Tide: Increasing Student Retention by Acknowledging Race and Unconscious Bias and Surviving College: 7 Tools for Success.