About
Dr. Paul Bylsma joined the faculty in August 2023. Prior to coming to GVSU, Paul held roles in enrollment management, alumni relations, and preservice teacher education. Paul holds a doctorate in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University. Paul's research utilizes sociomaterial theories to explore teaching, learning, knowledge, assessment, and practice in a higher education context as a complex encounter between people, space, and time.
Outside of academia, Paul's interests include reading, running, biking, brewing, working and playing in the yard and on the car, and sustaining a household with his partner, two children, cat, and dog.