Douglas Eder spent the majority of his career as a biology faculty member and assessment expert at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He spent sabbatical research time at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas and at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. During 2000-2001 he was the Emerson Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Hamilton College. He has held positions in higher administration at SIUE, Arizona State University, and the University of North Florida. Doug's most recent role was interim "Assessment Coach" at Purdue University.

Doug received his bachelor's degree (religion) from the College of Wooster, and his master's degree (physiology/female endocrinology) and doctorate (physiology/biophysics) from Florida State University. His postdoctoral fellowships at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami were funded by the Fight for Sight Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Doug's works exist in three areas: (a) the neuropharmacology of pregnancy-induced hypertension (also known as pre-eclamptic toxemia), a common and hazardous condition of human pregnancy, (b) an atlas of anatomy, and (c) the assessment and improvement of student learning. He is an associate editor-reviewer for the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and a regular presenter at the Lilly Conference and at the National Assessment Institute at IUPUI.

Doug has worked with some 135 institutions of higher learning (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, doctoral universities) from the Caribbean, across North American, to the Asian Pacific, all for collaborating and advising on issues of assessment, program review, and reaccreditation. Disciplinary specializations in assessment include, but have not been limited to, general education, business, education, engineering, pharmacy, nursing, and law. Recently, Doug's duties have included the role of external evaluator for five Title II educational development grants and two NSF research grants.