Faculty Fellows
2009-2010

RANDY HYMAN, Chair
University of Minnesota-Duluth

Marilee J. Bresciani, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Postsecondary Education Leadership at San Diego State University, where she coordinates the masters in Student Affairs/Services in community colleges and higher education, the certificate in institutional research, planning, and assessment, and the masters and doctorate in community college leadership.  Dr. Bresciani’s research focuses on the evaluation of student learning and development.  She uses grounded theory to explore how systems and processes contribute to student learning centeredness, which includes the study of leaders’ roles in these systems and processes. Dr. Bresciani previously served as Assistant Vice President for Institutional Assessment at Texas A&M University and as Director of Assessment at North Carolina State University.  She is a leading author of five books on assessing student learning and outcomes-based assessment program review and serves on the editorial board of the NASPA Journal. She is a reviewer for the Australian Quality Assurance Agency and is also a managing partner in an international assessment and enrollment management consulting firm.  Dr. Bresciani holds a Ph.D. in Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction from the University of Nebraska and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Hastings College.

Term
2009 - 2012

Dr. Cole is an Associate Professor of Education with an emphasis in higher education and education psychology. His areas of research include race/ ethnicity, diversity, college student experiences, and learning. Previously he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu). He was also a faculty member at Marquette University. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, at Charlotte and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is on the review board of Journal Educational Foundations.  Dr. Cole has published over 25 articles and book chapters and is featured in the major journals for higher education and other related fields including The Journal of Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, NASPA Journal, Journal of Classroom Behavior, and Journal fo Creative Behavior. His most recent article "Do Interracial Interactions Matter? An examination of Intellectual Self-Concept" will appear in the Journal of Higher Education.

Term
2009 - 2012

Dr. Timothy R. Ecklund received a B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Geneseo, a M.S. in Student Personnel Administration at Buffalo State College, and a Ph. D. in Higher Education Administration from the Educational, Leadership, and Policy department at the University at Buffalo.  His dissertation topic explored the relationship between psychosocial development and acculturation among American Indian college students.  His research interests include the experiences and student development of Native American college students, learning communities and student engagement, and leadership and organizational development in student affairs.  Dr. Ecklund currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Campus Life at Buffalo State College. He has served as an adjunct professor in the Educational, Leadership, and Policy program at the University at Buffalo and in the Student Personnel Administration program at Buffalo State College for the past 10 years. Tim has also worked as a diversity consultant with Genesis Project Associates and the National Coalition Building Institute.

Dr. Maribeth Ehasz has been at the University of Central Florida since 1994 and currently holds the position of Vice President for Student Development and Enrollment Services.  In this role, she provides leadership and support to the Division of Student Development and Enrollment Services in providing strong transition, support services and learning opportunities that empower students to succeed.  She previously was Associate Vice President of Academic Development and Retention at UCF.  During her long time career in higher education, she has served as Assistant Dean of the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and was founding director of the Office of Retention Services as well as Assistant Dean of the University College at the University of Toledo in Ohio.  She has also held positions in residence life, student activities, learning assistance, and career services at various universities and community colleges.  Dr. Ehasz obtained her undergraduate degree in American Studies and History and her M.A. in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.  Her Ph.D. in Guidance and Counseling Education was completed at the University of Toledo with a minor in Psychology.  Dr. Ehasz presents nationally on women’s career development, student retention, and academic advising effectiveness.  She has also won numerous awards.

Term
2009 - 2012

Dr. Padró is an Associate Professor in the Ed.D. Educational Leadership Program at Cambridge College in Cambridge, MA.  In addition to teaching research and leadership courses, he is also co-responsible for the School of Education’s TEAC accreditation application process.  Prior to his current duties, he was Program Coordinator for Education Counseling (K-12 and college student personnel) at Monmouth University for a five year period.  Before becoming a faculty member he was Director of Customized Training and Continuing Education at Hibbing Community College and Dean of the VI and ILP Programs at the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.  His current principal research interest in quality assurance processes in higher education (in the USA and abroad), how accreditation is used as a proxy for quality, and policy steering concerns specific to institutional performance.   At present he is the Secretary for the American Society for Quality’s Education Division and Chair of its Higher Education Advisory Council.  He has published over two dozen peer-reviewed artifacts plus a book on social safety nets in addition to presenting at over 50 national and international conferences (in English or Spanish). Dr. Padró received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and was a four-time Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner, a Peer Reviewer for Project AQIP, and a Senior Examiner for the Workforce investment Network.  He also served as Vice President of the New Jersey State Chapters of the AAUP.

Raechele L. Pope is an associate professor of higher education and student affairs administration in the Department of Education, Leadership, and Policy at the University of Buffalo.  She earned her doctorate in Organization Development from the University of Massachusetts At Amherst, and M.A. in College Student Personnel Administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  With more than twenty years of experience in college student affairs, she has worked at several institutions in a variety of functional areas, including academic advising, residential life, and diversity education and training. She has also served as a consultant and provided expertise on the American college student, college student development, multicultural interventions, multicultural competence, and multicultural organization development to both higher education and corporate clients.  Dr. Pope’s primary teaching and research interests and publications are focused on college student development and the creation of multicultural campus environments.  She is the co-author (along with Amy L. Reynolds and John A. Mueller) of Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs (Jossey-Bass, 2004).  In addition, she has refereed journal articles and published book chapters on a variety of issues including: multicultural organization development, multicultural competence, multiracial college students and psychosocial development of students of color.  She has served as a reviewer or as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, and Practice, and Jossey-Bass.

Term
2009 - 2012

JUDY ROGERS
Miami University

CARNEY STRANGE
Bowling Green State University

SIU-MAN RAYMOND TING
North Carolina State University