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35 Years of the NASPA Hardee Dissertation-of-the-Year Award
by Anna Ortiz, Professor of Educational Leadership and Student Development in Higher Education and the Director of the EdD Program at California State University, Long Beach
In 2012 we celebrate 35 years of the NASPA Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation-of-the-Year Award. This award calls us to reflect on the professional contributions of Dr. Hardee as well as the inspired research and its influences that have followed. Dr. Hardee was instrumental in the growth of student affairs as a founding member of the Florida State University Department of Higher Education and as a leader in the field. In the list of NASPA Hardee Award recipients, we can see strands of her influence in not just the winners' dissertations, but also in their professional lives. In honor of the 35th year we would like to recognize all past award recipients; their names are familiar to us as leading scholars and accomplished administrators.
To mark this banner year of the NASPA Hardee Award, a special session will be offered at the national convention featuring a panel of four past awardees whose careers have come to exemplify excellence in scholarship and further development of the field and a review of the impact of all the recipients on the field of student affairs, scholarship on college students, and the NASPA organization. This session will be held on Monday, March 12, from 10:30-11:30 in 227A-Convention Center. We are also honored to present this year's recipient of the Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation-of-the-Year Award to Dr. Kirsten Fox. The dissertation is titled, Figuring it Out: A Grounded Theory of College to Post-college Transition. Dr. Fox is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park; her dissertation chair was chaired by Dr. Susan Komives. She is the current senior program director, Academic Initiatives for the Ohio Campus Compact. Dr. Fox will present her dissertation on Tuesday, March 13, from 2-3pm in 227-A Convention Center. This year's runner up is Dr. Tryan L. McMickens, whose dissertation is titled, Racism Readiness as an Educational Outcome for Graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Multi-campus Grounded Theory Study. Dr. McMickens is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania; his dissertation was chaired by Dr. Shaun Harper. Dr. McMickens is a visiting assistant professor in the Administration of Higher Education Program at Suffolk University. Both dissertations are excellent examples of grounded theory research. This year's competition was brisk with 38 submissions from programs across the country. We would like to thank the Hardee Dissertation-of-the-Year Committee—Florence Hamrick, Christine Austin, Marcia Lou "Cissy" Petty, Annmarie Vacarro, and Kerry McCaig—for their dedication in evaluating and selecting this year's entries and for selecting the panel of past award winners for the 35th anniversary panel. Anna Ortiz is the professor of educational leadership and student development in higher education and the director of the EdD program at California State University, Long Beach. She served as the chair of the 35th Anniversary NASPA Hardee Dissertation-of-the-Year Committee. |