Dr. Christopher Hightower is the Interim Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Texas Christian University. He is responsible for assessment across all of the academic affairs units, university level assessments, and regional accreditation for the university. In 2013, TCU launched a campus-wide effort to work towards comprehensive internationalization. Christopher lead the assessment team who wrote the assessment plan, and he currently supervises the assessment activities for the campus-wide program titled Discovering Global Citizenship. It received the 2015 IIE Heiskell Award for Internationalizing the Campus and the 2017 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award.