M.Ed. in Higher Education Leadership

Cassandre Giguere Alvarado

Executive Director for Student Success Initiatives

Focuses research on student success and graduation initiatives, including innovative college readiness assignments, student success programs and understanding the completion agenda.

Michael Bohlig

As Assistant Director of Research at CCCSE, Bohlig’s research interests center on student success at community colleges and the effects of enrollment status and developmental education on persistence and completion.

Aileen Bumphus

Research interests include educational leadership, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

Linda Garcia

Assistant Director of College Relations of the Center for Community College Student Engagement

Oversees the Center’s community college relations and serves as a point of contact for state leaders, funders and national higher education organizations.

Douglas Garrard

Serves as Associate Vice President for Campus Life and Senior Associate Dean of Students, and teaches courses related to on-campus culture in higher education.

Jenna Cullinane Hege

Harrison Keller

Deputy to the President for Strategy and Policy

Drives achievement of the president's strategic vision by coordinating long-range planning, policy development, and strategic implementation among academic and administrative units, and for organizing and overseeing strategic initiatives related to inter-institutional partnerships.

Mylon Kirksy

Director of Residence Life for Housing and Food Service

Teaches courses that examine the intersectionality of culture, organizations, and systems of privilege, power, and difference in higher education.

Edward Leach

Coral Noonan-Terry

Serves as Program Manager of Special Projects for the Center for Community College Student Engagement, teaches courses focused on community colleges.

Soncia Reagins-Lilly

Shares her expertise in higher education policy, administration and finance, strategic planning, and leadership development as the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students.

Ericka Roland

Conducts research using critical approaches to teaching, learning, and leadership development with an emphasis on analyzing social power dynamics for personal and collective transformation across the P-20 pipeline 

Nydia Sánchez

Explores the ways community and cultural contexts affect and inform student development and educational achievement along the P-20 pipeline for students from underrepresented backgrounds, particularly first-generation and Latinx students.

Julie Schell

Designs higher education innovation strategy. Teaches graduate courses on technology, innovation, and problems of college teaching and learning including related interventions.

LaToya Smith

Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student Services

Serves as the Title IX Coordinator and Associate Vice President of University Compliance Services to ensure the university holds high levels of integrity and ethical standards.

Betty Jeanne Taylor

Assistant Vice President, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement

Focuses on university-wide campus climate initiatives including bias incident reporting and response as well as implementing best practices for inclusive classroom climates and faculty recruitment and retention.

Aaron Voyles

Serves as the Associate Director for Student Learning and Development and researches post-qualitative and post-structuralist methodologies, discourse analysis, and gender performance.

Evelyn Waiwaiole

Executive Director of CCSSE

As Executive Director of the Center for Community College Student Engagement, Evelyn specializes in evidence that informs change and improved outcomes at community colleges.