Kimberley Williams, Higher Education M.S.Ed. alum, is one step closer to her doctorate. She successfully defended her dissertation proposal and is on to dissertation …
Dr. Commodore featured in REACH Collaborative podcast
Dr. Felecia Commodore is a featured guest in the REACH Collaborative’s podcast series titled Promoting Racial Equity in Credentialing Pathways for Adult Learners of …
Dr. Commodore co-authors policy brief on leadership for racial equity in the VCCS
Dr. Felecia Commodore, as an equity consultant to the Virginia Community College System with Dr. Pamela Eddy (William & Mary), authored a policy brief …
Dr. Smithers elected 2024 SEPES Program Chair
Dr. Laura Smithers was elected Program Chair for the 76th Southeast Philosophy of Education Society Conference, to take place in Winter 2024. She will …
Dr. Smithers selected to the ASHE 2023 Program Committee
Dr. Laura Smithers was selected to serve alongside Dr. Daniel Saunders (Florida International U.) as co-chair for the Philosophy and Foundations section of the …
CCL Ph.D. student Elizabeth Dellavedova interviewed in Inside Higher Ed
CCL doctoral student Elizabeth Dellavedova was recently interviewed by Inside Higher Ed about her work as the leader of an academic library. You can …
CCL is hiring: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position now open
The Community College Leadership program is expanding! We are searching for a third faculty member specializing in community colleges to join our program in …
New publication: Dr. Commodore and colleagues develop Equity X Governance model
Dr. Felecia Commodore, alongside Drs. Demetri Morgan (Loyola Chicago) and Raquel Rall (UC Riverside), has a new publication in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory …
Alumni and Current Student Updates
Dr. Stacy Water-Bailey (CCL Ph.D. ’16) was recently promoted to Vice President of Transfer Excellence and Success at Forsyth Technical College in Winston-Salem, North …
Dr. Commodore to keynote 2023 Leading Change Conference
Dr. Felecia Commodore will be the Keynote Speaker for the 2023 Leading Change Conference at James Madison University, February 24 and 25. #LEADCC23 will …
Alumni and Current Student Updates
Kimberley Buster-Williams (HIED M.S.Ed. ’99), currently Vice President for Enrollment Management at Northeastern Illinois University, has several items in publication! In the first, she …
Dr. Gregory wins NASPA award
Dr. Dennis Gregory has won the 2023 Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member. This is the highest NASPA …
Dr. Commodore included on panel of speakers for ACPA’s Pre-Convention Workshop on HBCUs
Dr. Felecia Commodore joins a panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners to lead a pre-convention workshop at this year’s ACPA Convention centering the work …
Current Student and Alumni Updates
Click through, newsletter readers: we have another week of fantastic updates within! Matt McGraw (CCL Ph.D. ’16) has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar …
New publication: Dr. Smithers on uncoupling the value of higher education from measurement
Dr. Laura Smithers has a new publication out in a special issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology on the work of Erin Manning. The …
Current Student and Alumni Updates
If you’re reading this in the newsletter, be sure to click in here to read about all of the awesome things your fellow students …
New publication: Dr. Smithers and colleagues on post qualitative research in higher education
Dr. Laura Smithers, writing with Drs. Maureen Flint (Georgia) and Paul Eaton (Sam Houston State), has a new publication out in Qualitative Inquiry. The …
Alumni Updates – including an updated update!
Dr. Smithers here, your newsletter author: I made an error last week! My sincere apologies to Dr. Colclough, whose last name I… cut in …
Alumni Updates
Dr. Monique Clough (HIED Ph.D. ’16) now leads faculty professional learning work for the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC …
New publications: Dr. Mathies on internationalization from several angles
Dr. Charles Mathies has several new publications out. The first, Intra-Regional Mobility of PhD Students in the European Union: the Outcomes of Region-Making Policy?, …
New publication: Dr. Smithers on alternatives to neoliberal Competencies on campus
Dr. Laura Smithers has a new publication out in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. The article, The Production of Alter-Competence: Wonder …
North Carolina Community College Journal of Teaching Innovation updates
The North Carolina Community College Journal of Teaching Innovation (NCCC-JTI) has two exciting updates to share! First, they are currently accepting manuscript submissions for …
Alumni Updates
Dr. Shanda Jenkins (Ph.D. HIED ’21) has moved from Virginia Peninsula Community College to Old Dominion University, where she is the new Coordinator of …
Dr. Gregory gives Constitution Day talk at Virginia Tech
Dr. Dennis Gregory recently presented a speech entitled “The Role of Higher Education in Protecting Democracy: What We Should Do to Respond to the Constitutional …