THE SCRIPT 2.0 EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP @ ROWAN UNIVERSITY Summer/Fall 2018

PROGRAM RESTRUCTURING – THE CPED INITIATIVE

CONTENTS The Educational Leadership faculty have spent the past year  Program Restructuring collaboratively outlining a new Ed.D. program that provides greater  Student Feature: José opportunities for students to focus on practitioner relevant inquiry while maintaining our core commitment to graduate students who Laureano are ethical leaders, change agents, scholar practitioners, and social  Faculty Feature: Dr. Cecile justice advocates. We are working on revising our courses and our Sam benchmarks to reflect the Carnegie Project on the Education  Faculty Member Wins Doctorate (CPED) principles that emphasize both professional Evaluation Grant wisdom and research knowledge in order to prepare professionals to  Faculty Receive PIPER address real challenges, or what CPED refers to as problems of Award practice.  Faculty Member Goes on One of our most exciting program discussions has revolved around Sabbatical providing greater flexibility to incoming students. In particular, we  Alumna Releases New Book are exploring ways to support students’ participation in internships,  Special Feature: Leading the national professional development opportunities, and independent Way study options. We are also exploring approaches to tighten our  News & Notes program and reduce the time to degree. We see this as way of supporting students’ completion and reducing program costs.

Our next step is to reach out to our stakeholders—including students, employers, and regional leaders—to gather input as we transform our new framework into fully developed courses, which will go through our curriculum process in AY 2018-2019. If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr. Monica Reid Kerrigan, CPED Principal Investigator.

STUDENT FEATURE: JOSÉ LAUREANO

José Laureano, a current doctoral candidate in the Ed.D. program, is a passionate educator. José is the Director of Middlesex County Program Staff & Faculty College’s Perth Amboy Center, which provides English as a Second MaryBeth Walpole, Professor & Language courses, developmental courses in reading and math, Department Chair support services for incoming students, study skills workshops, and Miguel Greenup, Coordinator/Advisor counseling services. José’s passion was recently translated into a Elizabeth Henderson, Secretary James Coaxum, Associate Professor partnership with the City of Perth Amboy to create the Summer Sarah Ferguson, Assistant Professor Youth Leadership Academy. Ane T. Johnson, Associate Professor Monica R. Kerrigan, Associate Professor The academy targets rising high school seniors from the City of Perth JoAnn Manning, Assistant Professor Tyrone McCombs, Associate Professor Amboy who aspire to attend college. The program aims to equip Hajime Mitani, Assistant Professor participants with the support they will need to be a successful learner Cecile Sam, Assistant Professor and motivated student prepared for college. The participants will Carol Sharp, Professor learn about time management, how to work in groups, goal setting, Carol Thompson, Associate Professor college/FAFSA application process, and career exploration.

The Script 2.0 – Summer/Fall 2018 1 Participants also have the opportunity to gain leadership skills through civic engagement by working alongside local nonprofit agencies and/or municipal offices while earning an hourly wage in the process. This year, the academy had 15 participants who interned at the Puerto Rican Association for Human Development, the Perth Amboy Police Department, the Raritan Bay Medical Center, as well as many other organizations in the area.

Of the project, José stated, “This is a wonderful mechanism for high school students thinking about college to examine why college is important and explore what their responsibilities will be as students.” The Mayor and other funders are committed to expanding the program next year to include more rising seniors from the City of Perth Amboy. In addition to his work with area students, José is currently preparing to defend his dissertation proposal entitled, “A Qualitative Case Study Describing How Institutional Leaders and Institutional Agents Shape an Inclusive Campus Environment to Facilitate Latina/o Completion at A Hispanic-Serving Community College in New Jersey,” under the advisement of Dr. Monica Reid Kerrigan.

FACULTY FEATURE: DR. CECILE SAM

Dr. Cecile Sam joined the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership program as an assistant professor in Fall 2017. Prior to joining Rowan, Dr. Sam was a research specialist at the University of Pennsylvania and spent seven years as a middle school History and Language Arts teacher. She earned her Ph.D. in Urban Education from the University of Southern California. In the Ed.D. program, she teaches courses in leadership, education policy, and applied ethics.

Dr. Cecile Sam is currently working on two research projects that connect ethics with education. Her first project is funded by a Rowan University Seed Grant and examines ethical administrative leadership in K-12 schools. The project asks teachers to define what it means to be an ethical leader, share their experiences and describe how ethical leaders may influence their work. It also examines the flip-side of ethical leadership to better understand unethical administrative leadership.

Dr. Sam’s second project focuses on the controversial topic of “Safe Space.” She uses Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore the ways that higher education news outlets (i.e., the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed) have shaped the discourse of what safe space means in higher education institutions. The study looks at how the term has evolved historically, the different ways people interpret its meaning, and the ethical implications of its use. Findings from this project will be presented November at the 2018 Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference in Tampa, FL.

In her spare time she enjoys reading dark fiction and managing her dog's Instagram account: AgentBarkling.

FACULTY MEMBER WINS LARGE EVALUATION GRANT

Drs. Monica Reid Kerrigan and Kara Ieva (Counseling in Educational Settings) received two grants totaling $97,856 from the Forman S. Acton Educational Foundation to support a one year evaluation of the Foundation’s core programs and an analysis of existing research to inform future funding directions. The Forman S. Acton Educational Foundation provides educational opportunities for Salem County, New Jersey youth through financial assistance and motivational support that removes barriers and creates pathways for them to advance their education, achieve career success, and become global leaders. These grants build on an 18-month baseline evaluation that Drs. Kerrigan and Ieva completed earlier this year, which brings the total funding to $291,856.

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FACULTY RECEIVE ROWAN UNIVERSITY PIPER AWARD "Reforming the Anchor Doctoral Course components: First, the redesign of the anchor Curriculum to Prepare Inclusive and Social Justice course, Leadership Theory, in the Educational Educational Leaders" Leadership Doctoral (Ed.D.) program. Specifically, the redesign will integrate a foundation for Rowan university is focusing on how to make its inclusive and social justice leadership that will classrooms more inclusive through the Program for empower students to address equity issues that Inclusive Pedagogy and Educational Reform arise in their educational settings; second, the (PIPER). PIPER awarded up to five $5,000 grants alignment with institutional priorities, plans for to faculty or staff working on how to make the dissemination, and assessment of the reform; and classroom environment, syllabuses and teaching third, connection to broader efforts that build on a methods more accessible to students of diverse partnership between two major stakeholders: New backgrounds. Drs. James Coaxum, JoAnn Jersey Principal Supervisors Association (NJPSA) Manning, and Tyrone McCombs recently received and our urban community partner the City of one of the inaugural grants. Camden School District. Both organizations have indicated interest in collaborating with the Together these faculty have significant experience Educational Leadership program in professional in education as faculty, researchers, and leadership development, creating pipelines to the administrators in k-12 and higher education. The Ed.D. program, and other strategies. curriculum reform consists of the following three

FACULTY MEMBER TRAVELS TO AFRICA FOR SABBATICAL RESEARCH

Dr. Ane Turner Johnson leaves in August to spend goals. Dr. Johnson is four months in Southern and Eastern Africa to particularly conduct research via the university’s sabbatical interested in the role program. Sabbatical leaves are granted to faculty NRENs play in who have completed six or more years of service at creating an the university for the purpose of pursing a Africanized ICT substantial project designed to yield significant policy discourse in results. Dr. Johnson will serve as a Visiting Scholar education. The at the organization UbuntuNet Alliance, an evolution and educational non-profit in Lilongwe, Malawi that diffusion of such a connects national research and education networks discourse could lead to improved ICT policy - (NRENs) across the region. making, enhanced contextualization of ICT initiatives at universities and in communities, Dr. Johnson will undertake a study in the Eastern better buy-in from actors and recipients, and and Southern African regions on how NRENs meaningful development outcomes. She is also diffuse information and communication technology excited to travel the region, including Zambia, (ICT) policy among African universities and how Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Mozambique. You can these networks and their users connect ICT policy follow her work on Twitter at @researcher_prof. to national, regional, and continental development

ALUMNA DR. THERESA OROSZ (’17) RELEASES NEW BOOK

Dr. Theresa Orosz (’17), Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences at Middlesex County Community College, recently co-authored a book with Dr. Christine Harrington, Executive Director of the New Jersey Center for Student Success. The book, entitled Why the First-Year Seminar Matters: Helping Students Choose and Stay on a Career Path, is being published by Rowman & Littlefield.

The book presents an overview of the Guided Pathways movement, including the important role that the first- year seminar can play in setting the stage for student success. A review of the extensive history and research on The Script 2.0 – Summer/Fall 2018 3 first-year seminars is also provided. The book suggests that the time is right for colleges and universities to re- imagine the first-year seminar course within the Guided Pathways framework. By increasing the focus on career exploration and decision-making and addressing the key success skills students need, the first-year seminar can serve as an essential foundational element of Guided Pathways. The book includes practical suggestions on how to engage in backward course redesign, as well as data for making the case for practitioners who are looking to address equity gaps and require the course of all incoming first-year students.

SPECIAL FEATURE: LEADING THE WAY – THE NURSE EDUCATOR EXPERIENCE BY LAURIE COLBORN ED.D. ’18, MSN, RN

Going back for your doctorate is a life altering an educational milieu that I desired. I immediately experience that is not done in isolation. On the signed up for their open house. contrary, this journey affects everyone one around you and often forces you to lean on those whom The curriculum, taught have traveled this path before. For me this support through a social justice lens, came in the form of a mentor who had not only was a core value that received her doctorate, but had done so ten years the program and I both earlier as the first nurse to graduate from the Educational Leadership Program at Rowan shared. University. Little did I realize at the time the impact that this journey and this relationship would have At the meeting I was excited to learn that this on me as a student, a nurse, and a future leader. program would connect my love of nursing, education, and leadership. The curriculum, taught Finding the Right Path through a social justice lens, was a core value that the program and I both shared. I was enthusiastic The route that led me to Rowan University and to at the prospect of learning next to seasoned my future mentor was an inadvertent one. Although educators, something I had little prior exposure to. I knew at age 21 that I wanted to eventually pursue Eager to start my doctoral journey I sent in my a doctorate, I continued a long term internal application and within a few weeks I had my struggle as to the actual path that I should take. interview. Not long after that I was accepted into Should I get my Ph.D. in Nursing or Public Health? what would be the first official nursing track of Should I get a Ph.D. in Education, or should I go for doctoral students at Rowan University. We would an Ed.D.? There were so many options and the be the first class in the nursing track, but we would more I thought about it the more uncertain I not be the first nurses. became as to which path was right for me. Guiding the Way The fortuity of having a vast array of local programs at this level made my decision even more complex. When a longtime mentor of mine learned that I I knew I needed a part-time on-site program that would be attending Rowan University, she thought allowed me to continue working full time, while still that it would be helpful to speak to another nurse maintaining a direct connection to nursing. After who had graduated several years earlier with her attending some open houses at different schools I doctorate from Rowan University. My mentor decided to look at this from a more logical immediately sent out an electronic introduction to perspective namely; program cost and travel time. her friend and former colleague Dr. Debra Shearer. As I got to know Deb she became an extremely It was around this time of my awakening that I important and influential mentor and friend to me. received a small post card in the mail touting a new Her doctoral journey similar to my own was not nursing track that had recently been added to the always clearly defined. She shared that at the start Educational Leadership Program at Rowan of her nursing career academia was not something University. This program sounded perfect for me. It she immediately thought about. However as her would provide the nursing focus I needed, was own education continued and she obtained her within twenty minutes of my home, offered an in- Masters of Science in Nursing, she knew that state college tuition rate, and was wrapped within academia was her calling. Once on this career

The Script 2.0 – Summer/Fall 2018 4 trajectory she realized that she would eventually the eyes of K-12 teachers and higher education need to pursue a doctoral degree to advance. professionals that were not directly tied to the field of nursing. She would yield a wealth of knowledge In search of the perfect program to that would be from this experience while also exposing them to flexible with her young family while also availing to the world of nursing and that of a nurse educator. their financial needs, Deb started to investigate various programs. She discovered that Rowan Through her innate leadership skills and passion University offered a rigorous and reputable for nursing Deb would help facilitate an ongoing educational program. Rowan’s classroom format fit dialog that would prompt more nurses to enter into her needs, was close to her home, and was affordable. She also thought of the added value she the program at Rowan. Over the years, it would be would gain by being in a classroom with other this first nurse, and eventually more that would educators, but would they admit a nurse? follow that would lead to the creation and implementation of the first doctoral nursing track At the time Deb was looking at doctoral programs, at Rowan University. This new program would Rowan was known to produce resilient and follow the main coursework with a breakout track knowledgeable educators, but had yet to admit any just for nursing students, providing a delicate nursing educators. This minor detail did not deter balance between education, leadership, and her from applying; on the contrary, she took this nursing. With implementation complete program challenge as an opportunity to learn, but also to had come full circle, from the first nurse to the first educate. Her willingness to think abstractly about official class of nurses, each with their her doctoral nursing program allowed her to gain unique experience, yet all sharing the doctoral insight into the world of education, seen through journey.

For more information on their experiences in the Ed.D. program, contact:

Laurie Colborn, Ed.D. (’18), MSN, RN Debra Shearer, Ed.D. (’08), MSN, FNP-BC Public Health Nursing Coordinator Director, Doctor of Nurse Practitioner Program La Salle Neighborhood Nursing Center College of Nursing La Salle University Villanova University [email protected] [email protected]

FACULTY, STUDENT, AND ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES

Faculty Publications

Ferguson, Sarah L., & Hull, D.M. (2018). Exploring science career interest: Latent profile analysis of high school occupational preferences for science. Journal of Career Development. doi: 10.1177/0894845318783873

Johnson, Ane T. (2018). University infrastructures for peace in Africa: The transformative potential of higher education in conflict contexts. Journal of Transformative Education. Online first. doi:10.1177/1541344618779561

Grissom, J. A., Blissett, R. S. L., & Mitani, Hajime (in press). Evaluating school principals: Supervisor ratings of principal practice and principal job performance. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Grissom, J. A., Mitani, Hajime, & Woo, D. (in press). Principal preparation programs and principal outcomes. Educational Administration Quarterly.

Mitani, Hajime (in press). Principals' working conditions, job stress, and turnover behaviors under NCLB accountability pressure. Educational Administration Quarterly.

The Script 2.0 – Summer/Fall 2018 5 Walpole, MaryBeth, & Crockett, F. (2018). Utilizing service learning in master of higher education programs. Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education, 3, 25-40. https://doi.org/10.28945/3989

Chambers, C.R. & Walpole, MaryBeth (2017). Academic achievement among Black sororities: Myth or Reality? College Student Affairs Journal, 35(2), 131-139.

Faculty Presentations & Awards

Johnson, Ane. T. (2018, March 15). National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) as catalysts for development: Learning from Eastern & Southern African networks. Presented at the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) Annual Conference. Lomé, Togo.

Ieva, K.P., Nagib, N., Crockett, F., & Kerrigan, Monica R., (2018, April 15). The role of group counseling on the socio-emotional development of low-income high school students. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, New York City, NY.

Kerrigan, Monica R. (2018, April 16). Writing mixed methods proposals. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, New York City, NY.

Fuller, E., Hollingworth, L., & Mitani, Hajime (2018, April 14). Beginning teacher attrition in Texas by route to certification. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, New York City, NY.

Mitani, Hajime (2018, April 14). Digging deeper: Achievement gaps in the content and cognitive domains. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference, New York City, NY.

Dr. Hajime Mitani also won the 2017 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Education and Leadership Strategy category. Emerald Publishing and EFMD internationally recognizes the best doctoral research for those who finished their doctoral program between January 15, 2015, and January 15, 2018. The category of Education and Leadership Strategy is sponsored by Journal of Educational Administration.

Current Students & Alumni Publications & Presentations

Cohen, Pamela K. (’18), & Johnson, A. T. (2018, August). Diplomas with direction: A qualitative study of career counseling support for first-generation college students. NACE Journal: The Magazine of the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Lozada, Neva (’18), & Johnson, A. T. (2018). Perspective transformation in the supplemental instruction (SI) leader. Journal of Transformative Education. Online First. doi:10.1177/1541344618774544

Lozada, Neva (’18) (2018, May 25). How SI leaders experience transformative learning and the nature of civic engagement as a result of serving in a peer leadership role in higher education. Presented at the 10th International Conference on Supplemental Instruction, Seattle, WA.

Carcione, A., Manresa, L., Mathues, Sabrina (current), & Rogalski, D. (2018, May 31). Advising and the First Year Seminar: Leveraging a captive audience to meet advising objectives. Presented at the 2018 NACADA New Jersey State Drive-in Conference, Mt. Laurel, NJ

Mathues, Sabrina (current), Harrington, C., & Suk, K. (2018, February 12). The First-Year Seminar: An essential component of guided pathways. Presented at the 36th Annual National Resource Center First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Conference, San Antonio, TX

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Rodriguez, Sherri (’16) & Kerrigan, M.R. (in press). "A better person coming out than going in": A grounded theory study of transfer students. Community College Journal of Research & Practice.

Current Student & Alumni Announcements

Dr. Karen Archambault (‘10), Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Success at Rowan College at Burlington County, was elected to serve as President of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). NACADA is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports quality academic advising in institutions of higher education to enhance the educational development of students. Archambault has been a member of NACADA since 2003, currently serving as vice president. She will officially assume the role of president in October and will serve a one-year term. In this role, she will be responsible for leading the Board of Directors and implementing the strategic goals of the association.

Dr. Neva Lozada (’18) is now the Director of Student Success and Retention at Kean University.

Dr. Melissa McCooley (’17) is now the Superintendent of Pinelands Regional School District.

Dr. Paula Pando (’15) was appointed President of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia. Pando will become the college’s fourth president, succeeding Dr. Gary Rhodes, who will retire on September 1 after serving in that role for 16 years. Serving more than 16,000 students annually, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College is the youngest and among the largest of 23 community colleges in Virginia. The college operates three campuses serving residents in the City of Richmond and the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan, and Louisa. Dr. Pando is the second program graduate to become a community college president!

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