Division of Student Affairs
April 3, 2009
Cherokee Park Room, Lory Student Center
Presentation by Dr. Jillian Kinzie
10:00-11:30 a.m., Cherokee Park Room, Lory Student Center
Dessert Reception
12:45-1:30 p.m., University Club, Lory Student Center
Presentation by Dr. Cathy Small
1:30-2:30 p.m., Cherokee Park Room, Lory Student Center
These two presentations are sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs. Both presentations will be of interest to those concerned with engaging today’s students in the academic environment. More information about the presenters is listed below.
Dr. Jillian Kinzie, is the Associate Director at the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practice.
Kinzie coordinates research and project activities to facilitate the use of student engagement data to promote educational effectiveness. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education with a minor in Women's Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to this, she taught as a visiting faculty member in the Higher Education and Student Affairs department at Indiana University, served as Assistant Dean in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University (OH) and also worked in student affairs at Miami where she coordinated orientation, advising, and first-year experience activities, and also worked at Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Cathy Small has been a professor of cultural anthropology at Northern Arizona University for 20 years. She is the recipient of numerous local awards, including Teacher of the Year and Faculty Mentor Award at NAU, and has served as a Faculty Fellow and a member of the PEW Higher Education Roundtable. She is the recipient of the national award for Excellence in Applied Anthropology and was honored by President Clinton with the Points of Light award for co-founding "the Pipeline" mentoring and college scholarship program for low-income youth. Her program received the Governor's Special Recognition award as well as honors for Best Educational Practice in Post-Secondary Education in the state of Arizona.
For 25 years, her research and writing (including her last book, Voyages) have focused on immigration and transnational issues. That is, until 2002, when the professor decided to enroll as a freshman and walk in the shoes of her own students. Living and taking classes for a year as an undergraduate was the basis for her book “My Freshman Year,” an anthropological account of student culture.