ODU Community College Leadership Program

Community College Leadership is expanding! We are searching for a third faculty member specializing in community colleges to join our program in July 2023. This is a tenure-track Assistant Professor line. Research specialization within the study of community colleges is open. Please spread the word far and wide, and consider applying yourself! See the linked job ad below for more details. Review of applications will begin February 27. Questions? Contact search chair Dr. Mitchell Williams at mrwillia at odu dot edu.

Assistant Professor of Community College Leadership (Tenure Track) Old Dominion University’s Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the Darden College of Education & Professional Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in Community College Leadership beginning July 2023. Applicants should be comfort...

Prospective Ph.D. students - join us for a program information session this Tuesday, January 24 at noon in advance of our February 1 application deadline! This is a joint session with the ODU Higher Education Program. Come with all the questions on your spirit - Drs. Smithers and Williams, Graduate Program Directors for the Higher Education and Community College Leadership Programs, respectively, will open with a short overview of each program and reserve the balance of time for Q&A. RSVP at https://sforce.co/3WmeP0a to receive both the Zoom link as well as an ODU application fee waiver!

Alumni! Your faculty have spent a lot of time recently updating our records so that we can stay in touch with you! If:
- *you do not currently receive the monthly M2M program update email*, and
- you did not get an email from Dr. Laura Smithers just now, and
- you’d like to receive updates from the program!,
- sign up at http://eepurl.com/hcS20D .

You’ll receive a monthly newsletter and about two-ish additional emails a year with information on alumni-specific events. Questions? Email Dr. Smithers at lsmither at odu dot edu. I (it’s Laura here, I’m the woman behind the curtain) will get back to you as quickly as I can to get your information correct in our system.

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Congratulations to Dr. David Lerman for successfully defending his dissertation, "Combining Cognitive and Noncognitive Assessments to Predict First Year GPA and Persistence in Community College Students." Dr. Mitchell Williams served as dissertation chair, and Dr. Linda Bol and Dr. Chris Glass (of Boston College) served as committee members.

CCL alumni, current students, and faculty contributed to the program for the the Virginia Community College System’s New Horizons Conference on April 6-8, 2022.

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca White for successfully defending her dissertation, "Faculty Perceptions in Teaching Clinical Reasoning at the Patient Bedside". Dr. Mitchell Williams served as dissertation chair, and Dr. Kim Bullington and Dr. Laura Smithers served as committee members.