Current Higher Education Leadership Students

Our Students

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  Holly Sisson
  Title/Organization: Undergraduate Athletic Training Program Director/Western Michigan  University
  Research Interest:  Athletic training management, concussions, student retention and success

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  Daniel Vainner
  Title/Organization: Associate Registrar/Grand Valley State University
  Research Interest: Athletic subsidies in Higher Education

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  Name: Keenan King
  Title/Organization: Assistant Director, TRIO Upward Bound Program, WMU
  Research Interest:African american men in higher education; transfer students; educational policy; educational administration; educational finance

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  Name: Michelle Rhodes
  Title/Organization: Associate Vice President for Financial Aid/Grand Valley State University
  Research Interest: Financial aid, low-income students, higher education policy

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  Name: Kyle Wigboldy
  Title/Organization: Registrar/Western Theological Seminary
  Research Interest:  Institutional effectiveness, enrollment management, records management, organizational change

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  Name: Jay Wise
  Title/Organization: Director of College Housing and Operations/Calvin College 
  Research Interest: Themed housing, living-learning communities, housing, programming, belonging

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  Name: Brianne Steele
  Title/Organization: Registration Worker/Macomb Community College
  Research Interest: Student affairs attrition, student organization advisers, student leaders, religious identity impact of students

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  Name: Alexia Alexander
  Title/Organization: Associate Director/WMU Financial Literacy
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  Name: Kathrine Branch
  Title/Organization: Director of Simulation/Grand Valley State University
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  Name: Martha Paulina Campusano Rojas
  Title/Organization: Professor/Instituto Tecnico Superior Comunitario
  Research Interest: Higher education students reading and writing skills, students self-awareness of their language skills, faculty development

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  Name: Soongmin Chow
  Title/Organization: Associate Director, International Admissions and Services/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: International student experiences; trends in transnational education practices; quality assurance in higher education

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  Name:Sarah Clark
  Title/Organization: Academic Fieldwork Coordinator, Faculty Specialist II, Tenure Track/Western Michigan University-Occupational Therapy Department 
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  Name: Kelley Conrad
  Title/Organization: Vice President for Academic Affairs/Muskegon Community College
  Research Interest: Community college administration and leadership; change management and leadership

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  Name: Brian Dietz
  Title/Organization: Associate Dean of Students/Kalamazoo College 
  Research Interest: Higher education finance; student involvement in institutional governance; college student alcohol use; decision making in higher education

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  Name: Meredith Dodson
  Title/Organization: Assistant Professor-Writing Program Director/Olivet College
  Research Interest: Creativity in leadership; faculty development; program assessment

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  Name: Lisa Garcia
  Title/Organization: Director/WMU Business Connection
  Research Interest: Latina community college leadership, educational technology

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  Name: Katherine Giardello
  Title/Organization: Project Consultant/Michigan Center for Student Success
  Research Interest: Curricular articulation practices; state transfer policies that involve faculty; transfer and articulation as a systems issue

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  Name: Tara Gish
  Title/Organization: Manager of Student Services, Recruitment and Outreach/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Women in higher education leadership; the interaction of gender, gender role, and occupation; Title IX, campus responses to sexual assault

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  Name: Sarah Good
  Title/Organization: Couseling - Faculty Specialist II/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Retention and sense of belonging for students of color; professional development for white higher education employees serving diverse students

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  Name: Jessie Grant
  Title/Organization: Associate Vice President for Student Life and Success/Bemidji State University
  Research Interest: Administrator work life issues

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  Name: Tomika Griffin-Brown
  Title/Organization: Assistant Director of Academic Advising/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Contributing factors of success for minority students at predominantly white institutions

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  Name: Diana Hernandez
  Title/Organization: Director/WMU-Division of Multicultural Affairs 
  Research Interest: Experiences of senior Latina administrators in higher education

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  Name: Julia Virginia Pimentel Jimenez
  Title/Organization: Registrar/Universidad Iberoamericana UNIBE
  Research Interest: URE, automation of processes, curriculum design and implementation

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  Name: Jennifer Riggs
  Title/Organization: Respiratroy Therapy Instructor/Muskgeon Community College
  Research Interest: National board pass rates, how to improve them, is there something that leads to success on first time pass attempt

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  Name: Malia Roberts
  Title/Organization: Associate Director of Graduate Enrollment Services/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Professional staff development and mentorship

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  Name: Robert Robins
  Title/Organization: Senior Affiliate Professor/Grand Valley State University
  Research Interest: Educational Technology; hybrid-flipped class methodology; adventure tourism

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  Name: Ibrahim Rustamov
  Title/Organization: Doctoral Associate/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Innovations in higher education; program development; alternative credentials, prior learning assessment and competency-based education

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  Name: Kara Werner-Sanders
  Title/Organization: Head Athletic Trainer and Adjunct Instructor/Beacon Health System and IU South Bend
  Research Interest: Student identity and affect on education, assimilation, engagement

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  Name: Yvonne (Yuqian) Zhang
  Title/Organization: Associate Professor/Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, China
  Research Interest: Cross-border higher education

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  Nathan Nguyen 
  Title/Organization: Director LBGT Student Services/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Under-represented students with 2 or more marginalized identities and how they navigate predominately/historically white institutions (PWIs), impat on identity development, sense of belonging

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  Andriana Cardoso Reyes
  Title/Organization: Assistant Director-Institutional Accreditation and Planning/Western Michigan University 
  Research Interest: Minority serving institutions as models for best practices for SOC, institutional policies/processes impact on retention and graduation of SOC, family/community engagement in retention and persistence of SOC

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  Chris Sligh
  Title/Organization: Director, Office of Student Engagement/Western Michigan University
  Research Interest: Grit and resiliency for students of color in relation to a holistic wellness approach

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  V'Lecea Hunter 
  Title/Organization: Project Coordinator/Grand Valley State University 
  Research Interest: Recruitment and retention for minority students at PWIs

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