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INTEGRATING CURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR ENDEAVORS TO ENHANCE STUDENT OUTCOMES

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INTEGRATING CURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR ENDEAVORS TO ENHANCE STUDENT OUTCOMES

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LAURA A. WANKEL

Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

CHARLES WANKEL

St. John’s University, New York, NY, USA

IN COLLABORATION WITH

JORDAN LAROSE

QUINCY GREENHECK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Contributors

About the Authors

Anne Bradley is a Senior Academic Staff Member at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic in the School of Business delivering first and second year papers on the New Zealand Diploma in Business, with a research interest in collaborative and flexible work and learning environments. Anne’s career began in the tourism industry which led to her first teaching role 18 years ago and has since been involved in curriculum development, teacher education, and business studies both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Michael Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Deakin University where he teaches insurance, risk management, and leadership. He has previously occupied positions at Victoria University and in South Africa and the United Kingdom. His current research interests are in management education, implicit theories of leadership, investment assets of retirees, and risk reduction.

Stephanie L. Colbry is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Coordinator of the Master of Science in Leadership program at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA. Her experience spans across several change-based organizations. She has been recognized for working with organizations to help restructure their business processes. She has worked as an implementation consultant and trainer, assisting NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Stephanie’s work includes a variety of consulting services such as organization structuring, strategic planning, change management, business process improvement, facilitation, financial management, and coaching. Her focus is on developing collaborative processes which foster transformation. Stephanie’s current research emphasis is concerned with collaborative leadership and followership practices within change-based organizations, and also, sustainable leadership transformation in global conflict regions. She has presented at the International Leadership Association (ILA) conferences in Prague, Los Angeles, and Montreal. She has been a co-facilitator for the “Rising Leaders” program for the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and has supported other leadership development projects in the Greater Philadelphia and Washington DC areas. Stephanie earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Nonprofit Management at Eastern University. She received her M.B.A. in Business Administration from Rider University, and B.S.B.A. in Marketing with a minor in Marine Science from Rider University.

Aram deKoven was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. Holding undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Music from the State University of New York-Oswego, a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and a second Master’s degree in Education and a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Dr. deKoven began teaching in after-school programs in Upstate New York working with at risk youth. Later he taught at the post-secondary level in Cornell University’s teacher education program as a teaching assistant. From there he continued in teacher education at the State University of New York-Cortland as a visiting assistant professor of education. Following four years at Cortland, Dr. deKoven accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he currently teaches educational technology, the history of American Education, and multicultural education to pre-service educators. All of Dr. deKoven’s classes incorporate a highly critical lens that force his students to analyze the significant impact of race, class, affectional orientation, gender, and being an English language learner on educational opportunity and access in American schools. Dr. deKoven’s research, publications, presentations, and intercultural immersion share this critical perceptive.

Stan M. Dura is an Assessment Program Manager for Western Governors University focusing on competency based assessment and has called the West Coast home for over 11 years. Before joining Western Governors University, Stan held various appointments in higher education, both within and outside the United States, at public and private institutions, teaching and developing curriculum for first year experience courses, academic advising, housing and residence life, and most recently, student affairs assessment and research. Stan is the Outgoing Chair of the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) and is also a member of the College Student Educators International (ACPA), Student Affairs Professional in Higher Education (NASPA), and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He holds a M.A. in Student Development from Appalachian State University, B.A. in Psychology from Huntingdon College, and is nearing completion of his doctoral studies in Learning and Technology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Stan enjoys intellectual ideation, technology, and applying critical lenses and novel perspectives to student learning and organizational systems and process, and he has had the good fortune and honor of presenting at numerous conferences and consulting with various campuses and national organizations regarding student learning and innovations in residential and co-curricular programming and assessment practices.

Dawn M. Francis is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA. She has over 20 years of experience in both academic and corporate settings. Her teaching and research are focused on communicating for social justice. Dawn currently teaches courses on narrative, nonfiction storytelling for the Common Good through digital technologies and social media. She also leads the College’s faculty development committee, working with colleagues to design and deliver programming that helps faculty to integrate innovative pedagogies and social justice education into their curriculum. Dawn continually seeks ways to foster transformative learning experiences among her students and her peers in formal classroom settings and through compelling multimedia stories. In addition to her academic role, Dawn consults with organizations to architect solutions to achieve their business needs. For well over a decade, she has worked as a performance strategist, partnering with senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies to design, develop, and implement large-scale organizational change initiatives. Her clients span the pharmaceutical, telecommunications, IT, and payroll processing industries. Her areas of expertise include performance improvement, learning and development, and marketing communication. She has crafted solutions for domestic and global audiences. Dawn earned her Ed.D. in Higher Education – Academic Leadership from Widener University. She received her M.S. in Journalism from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, and a B.A. in English and Communication from Cabrini College.

Cath Fraser currently combines roles as a Research Leader, mentoring colleagues, and developing organizational projects, with independent research and writing contracts for other institutions across the higher education sector. Cath also facilitates academic writing retreats aimed at higher qualification completion or peer-reviewed publications. Current research interests include mentoring, staff development, and writing resources to support early-career teachers. In 2012, Cath was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Windsor, Ontario.

Ryan Fuller (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara; MBA San Francisco State University) is an Assistant Professor in the Speech Communication Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and an adjunct faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay Boozman College of Public Health. His research has been published in periodicals such as Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and the Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies. He is co-author of Statistical Methods for Communication Researchers and Professionals (Kendall Hunt). His research interests include conflict framing, crisis communication, mindfulness, organizational resiliency, and communication research methods. He lives in Little Rock, AR.

Arthur Gibb, CDR, served for 17 years as a naval aviator, including duty as Associate Chair in the Department of Political Science at the Naval Academy, and 15 months on the CNE-C6F staff in Naples, Italy, during which he served as one of the primary planning officers for the inaugural Africa Partnership Station (APS) mission. CDR Gibb completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and holds a Masters in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. His dissertation focused on the use of the U.S. military and security assistance in post-Cold War foreign policy. CDR Gibb currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Leader Development and Research, actively leading efforts to integrate curricular concepts taught in the core courses with Midshipmen experience in leadership roles.

William F. Heinrich, Ph.D., is the Director of Assessment at the Michigan State University Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology. He earned his doctorate in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education from MSU and works to enhance the value of co-curricular learning across the institution. His research has a dual focus on organizational assessment practice and policy along with undergraduate experiential learning in high-impact environments. Recent work focuses on using multiple perspectives to stretch normative practice in assessment, experiential learning, and critical thinking research.

Wesley S. Huey, CAPT, served for 20 years as a naval aviator, completing his operational career as commanding officer of an FA-18 squadron. He then earned his Ph.D. in Sociology, specializing in Social Psychology, from the University of Maryland College Park. His dissertation was titled Innovation as Group Process: Hierarchy, Status, and the Dilemma of Participative Leadership. Soon after reporting to the faculty at the U.S. Naval Academy, CAPT Huey established and became the first Chair of the Department of Leader Development and Research to integrate and expand curricular, cocurricular, and extracurricular leader development efforts for students, faculty, and staff. He was then selected to become Director of the Division of Leadership Education and Development, comprised of 43 military and civilian faculty teaching core and elective courses in military leadership and ethics, military law, sociology, psychology, and philosophy to 4500 Midshipmen.

Selena Kohel received her B.A. in Psychology and Piano Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.A. in Student Personnel Administration in Higher Education from New York University, and her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies, with concentrations in Counseling Psychology and Social Psychology, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked in a variety of roles with an array of students at various institutions. Before falling in love with teaching, Dr. Kohel was employed as a student personnel administrator advising individual students on academic, career, and personal concerns; overseeing the development of student organizations, student leaders, and student staff; and facilitating diversity programming. During and since falling in love with teaching, Dr. Kohel has taught a variety of college-level courses at different institutions. Relevant courses taught at her current institution include: Personality Psychology; Social Psychology; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Race, Class, and Gender; and Counseling Psychology. Dr. Kohel is a strong believer in helping students develop their life skills, especially in regard to communicating, perspective-taking, critical-thinking, and acting in a responsible manner. Dr. Kohel’s research interests include: teaching for cultural competence, teaching for participatory democracy, and exploring the role of social categorization in social inequality.

Janet L. Kottke, Ph.D., earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She is currently Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino, where she founded the Master’s program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. At various times during the program’s evolution, she has served as director, recruitment coordinator, internship director, and outcome assessment coordinator. Dr. Kottke was honored with CSUSB’s prestigious Outstanding Professor award in 2009, which recognized her achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service. Her primary scholarly works are in diversity, measurement, and pedagogy. She frequently presents at national conferences on pedagogical issues particularly relevant to practitioner-oriented curricula. She has published more than 45 referred journal articles and book chapters and has made nearly 200 presentations at local, regional, and national conferences. Currently, she is investigating the underlying constructs that define and predict employability. She has consulted with and for public and private organizations on organizational structure, human resource practices, and program evaluation.

Dandrielle Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She was born and raised in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from SUNY Binghamton University in 2011, her Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Iowa, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from Winston Salem State University. Her research lies in the area of Finite Group Theory, and she specializes in characterizations of subgroups of products of groups. She has taught Mathematics for the Educational Opportunity Program at Binghamton University and the Math and Science summer program at UWEC, these programs serving underrepresented groups from the inner cities of New York and Milwaukee, respectively. She is the Project Director for the Sonia Kovalevsky high school and middle school Math day for girls at UWEC, and she is a member of the UW Women and Science Advisory Board. Dr. Lewis is extremely passionate about doing research with undergraduates and creating opportunities for underrepresented groups and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. She is a mentor for the Association for Women in Mathematics, the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation research program, and many undergraduates across the country. One of her many passions includes grant writing to create and develop sustainable programs to impact academia, society, and communities at large.

Philippe Mairesse is an artist, a consultant and a researcher who works at the intersection between art and organizations. He earned a Ph.D. from the University for Humanistics in Utrecht (Netherlands) jointly with La Sorbonne University in Paris (France). His double thesis in humanization of organizations and in arts investigates the role of art for introducing more democracy into corporate meetings. Convinced that change towards a fairer world needs to make room for creation in everyday activity and work, he develops experimentations and theories on art-based methods for training and teaching managers and students. He is currently serving La Sorbonne University and co-chairs the National Research Project (ANR) ‘Abrir: the arts to understand critical mutations in organizations’. He also leads an experimental and innovative art-based teaching project for the accounting Master in University Paris-Dauphine. He is a trainer for managers in the public sector and a consultant for creativity within work. His publications explore how and why art and aesthetics foster deeper reflexivity and sense-making within management practices and learning.

Kristen McIntyre (Ph.D., North Dakota State University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She directs both the introductory communication course and the Communication Skill Center, a campus resource devoted to helping students, faculty, and staff develop and refine a variety of communication competencies. Her co-authored publications have appeared in Communication Quarterly, Communication Teacher, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, and Best Practices in Experiential and Service Learning in Communication. Her research interests include communication education, communication training, service-learning, and communication curriculum assessment. She lives in Little Rock, AR.

Richard L. Miller received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Northwestern University in 1975. He has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Cologne, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and is currently Chair of the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. He worked for many years as the Director of applied behavioral science research projects for the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) in Heidelberg, Germany, after which he set up a community college program for English speaking residents of Mallorca, Spain. Under his leadership, the UNK Department of Psychology was recognized as the 1999 Outstanding Teaching Department in the University of Nebraska system. At UNK, he served three terms as President of the UNK Chapter of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, three terms as President of the UNK Faculty Senate, and 15 years as Director of the Institutional Review Board. Rick is a past-President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association and serves as the Director of Departmental Consulting Services and e-book editor for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Rick has received several national teaching awards including the Robert Daniel Teaching Excellence Award from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association, and the US Professor of the Year award by CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2012, he received the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association.

Kevin Moore, Ed.D., is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and performance improvement/instructional design consultant. As an entrepreneur, Kevin has been a founder, owner, and/or executive of nine organizations and has over 30 years of experience designing and modifying instruction for learners. Kevin’s experience includes needs assessments that address business needs and training requirements, physical and mental workload assessments, technology analysis, performance management systems design, technical and “soft” skills training design, and summative and formative evaluations of performance improvement programs. In addition, he has experience with the selection of appropriate training strategies and materials to address learner characteristics, course objectives, and sequencing of courses to fit curriculum needs and competency structures. Kevin’s specialty is focusing on learner requirements for performance returns in any job-based situation. Recently, Kevin was given an opportunity to join the University of Tampa as the Director of Operations for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. In this role, Kevin will bring his experience, technology, and educational background to help this outstanding team develop the most advanced empirical curriculum in entrepreneurship education.

Kevin M. Mullaney, CDR, served 15 years as a submarine officer before completing his doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He served for one year leading efforts to integrate and expand curricular, cocurricular, and extracurricular leader development opportunities as the head of the Leader Development and Research Department at the Naval Academy and is currently serving as the Director of Leadership Research, focused on consolidating assessment and research data collected as part of the curriculum and in conjunction with experiential leader development events to support an integrated, individualized leader development continuum for each student.

Andrea North-Samardzic is Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Deakin University where she teaches organizational behavior and leadership in postgraduate programs. She has previously occupied academic roles at Monash University, LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, and the University of New South Wales. Her research interests are in implicit theories of leadership, innovative teaching techniques in management and leadership, especially involving digital media, and equality and diversity within organizations.

Deborah A. Olson, Ph.D., earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently an Associate Professor of Management and Leadership at the University of La Verne (ULV) in La Verne, California. Prior to joining ULV, she was a leadership development management consultant for over 25 years. As a consultant, she was the Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness and Management Development for Hay McBer and she also founded her own consultancy providing services to clients in the areas of executive development, human capital management, training and development processes, and team effectiveness. During her time as a consultant, she worked with over 350 organizations from both public and private sectors across North America. She has presented over 50 papers at regional, national, and international conferences, as well as numerous invited addresses. She has published more than 20 refereed journal articles and book chapters. Her current research focuses on the areas of career development, leadership and team effectiveness, human resource management practices, positive organizational behavior, and the use of talents to optimize the career success. She is also a coauthor of the recently published book Mid and Later Career Issues: An Integrative Perspective (2013).

David Owen, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire Business School, UK, who has over 12 years of previous business experience in the electricity industry sector. He is currently the Course Leader for the MSc in Project Management course at the University of Bedfordshire and is the coordinator of the following postgraduate units: Project Management Tools and Techniques; Client Delivery Project; Project Management Dissertation; Oman M.B.A. Operations and Project Management. He also is the coordinator of undergraduate units in Project Management and Operations Management, including versions of these units for the Department’s Trans National Educational (TNE) partnerships in Hong Kong. David has pioneered the use of Virtual Learning Environment technology to enable group collaboration and assessment and has recently launched an online version of the M.Sc. in Project Management course. He is currently supervising four Ph.Ds. and his current research interests include Project Management: Complexity and Leadership; Effective E-Learning; and Sustainable Energy and Transport.

Elly Philpott is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire Business School, UK, a Thesis Supervisor and Faculty Member for Laureate Online International, and a private business owner. She currently teaches Masters level students in the following subjects: Strategic Technology Management, Project Management Tools and Techniques, Contract and Procurement Management, the Dissertation; Business Research Methods; and a Client Delivery Project unit. She also teaches Decision Making with Risk and Uncertainty at D.B.A. level. She has supervised three Ph.Ds. to completion and is currently supervising two D.B.As. and seven Ph.Ds. She is a reviewer for a number of journals and has experience teaching and tutoring both European and international students, having held Visiting Lecturer posts in Poland and the Czech Republic. Her current research interests include Virtual Team Communities of Practice (VTCoPs), especially in projects and in online learning; innovation in SMEs; and university — business interaction.

Peter Richardson is Group Leader of the Business Management Team who deliver first and second year papers within the New Zealand Diploma in Business programme and facilitate third and fourth year business degree papers via an articulation agreement with the University of Waikato Management School. He also teaches economics and is a doctoral candidate with research interests in welfare economics and graduate employment outcomes. Peter has also worked in an international education environment in the Middle East and travelled extensively setting up recruitment and study pathways for international students.

Jennifer E. Rivera, Ph.D., is the Director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary minor in Leadership in Integrated Learning. Her scholarship identifies teaching and learning components that impend or foster learning through experience. As a researcher and teacher, Dr. Rivera collaborates in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative educational programs that promote self-directed learning. Her publications and presentations highlight professional and personal reflections learned while working with communities to create, lead, and manage student and faculty growth within various educational settings.

Kenneth S. Shultz, Ph.D., earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He also completed a National Institute on Aging funded post-doctoral fellowship in Social Gerontology at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California. Dr. Shultz is currently a professor in the Psychology Department at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), and serves as the Interim Director of their Center on Aging. Prior to joining CSUSB, he worked for four years for the City of Los Angeles as a personnel research analyst, where he conducted applied personnel psychology projects. Dr. Shultz also completed applied internships with United Airlines and UNISYS Corporation. He has presented papers and published articles on a wide variety of pedagogical issues, in addition to his substantive work in the areas of personnel selection, aging workforce issues, and retirement. Dr. Shultz has published four books (one edited) and nine book chapters, most recently coauthoring the book Mid and Later Career Issues: An Integrative Perspective (2013). He has also served as guest editor for a special issue of a journal on the Changing Nature of Retirement: An International Perspective for the International Journal of Manpower (http://tinyurl.com/6tvry2x).

Gemma Smyth is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. She teaches Clinic Seminar, Dispute Resolution, and Access to Justice, and manages the academic components of the Clinic Law Program. Professor Smyth researches and writes in the areas of clinic law, dispute resolution and legal education. Most recently, she coauthored a book with Professors Sarah Buhler and Sarah Marsden on clinical legal education in Canada. Professor Smyth won teaching awards in 2005, 2009, and 2015. She is also active in the Windsor-Essex community, working with groups fighting for the elimination of poverty and for increased rights for older adults and women experiencing family violence. She is also active with the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education, and is Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law as a professor, Professor Smyth was Executive Director of University of Windsor Mediation Services and a mediator with an Ontario government ministry.

Emma Stenström, Associate Professor, Ph.D., is Director of the Research Center for Arts, Business & Culture and teaches leadership and organization at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Her research concerns mainly aesthetic, creative, contemplative, and innovative aspects of organizational practice and the humanistic side of management. Emma has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters, and her Ph.D. dissertation was even re-published in a popular version as a paperback. She is currently involved in a number of research projects including activity-based working, contemplative practices in leadership development, the cultural capital of airlines, and innovation in large systems. Several of her research projects are done in collaboration with other disciplines, in particular medicine, psychology, and fine arts. Apart from working at SSE, Emma has served as a guest professor at the University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm, and on the Board of Directors of several companies and organizations. With a background in emerging economies, she has also been teaching and conducting research in South Africa, India, Russia, and Serbia. Beside her academic career, Emma has made a career in media. Apart from hosting a TV show and running an award-winning blog, she is a columnist in the daily Swedish business paper Dagens Industri and has published more than 300 columns.

Joseph J. Thomas retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2004. He was the Director of the John A. Lejeune Leadership Institute at Marine Corps University. He currently serves as the Class of 1961 Chair and Distinguished Professor of Leadership Education (PLE) at the Naval Academy, taking a leading role in expanding leadership education programs, mentoring junior faculty, advising and assisting the Chair of the Leadership, Ethics and Law Department on leadership curriculum matters, teaching undergraduate core and elective courses, assisting with an innovative Master’s degree program in leadership for military officers, and conducting research and scholarship in leadership development.

Charles Wankel, Professor of Management at St. John’s University, New York, holds a doctorate from New York University. He has authored scores of books including best-selling textbooks, scholarly treatises, and edited volumes on sustainability, cutting-edge technologies and their use and implications for education and managing, poverty alleviation, and social entrepreneurship. His Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World received the American Library Association’s Outstanding Business Reference Source Award. He has been a visiting professor in Lithuania at the Kaunas University of Technology (Fulbright Fellowship) and the University of Vilnius, (United Nations Development Program and Soros Open Society Foundation funding).

Laura A. Wankel, Ed.D., is the Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at Northeastern University, a unique role designed to focus on student learning in an integrated way, not constrained by the traditional and artificial boundaries between the curriculum and co-curriculum. Previously, she served as the Vice President for Student Affairs at Northeastern University and Seton Hall University. Dr. Wankel has been actively involved in NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, the premier professional association for the student affairs discipline, serving in numerous regional and national leadership roles including Chair of the Board of Directors. She holds an Ed.D. in higher education administration from Teachers College, Columbia University and has published several books on new technologies of higher education teaching and administration and has served on the editorial boards of the NASPA Journal and the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (JSARP). She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASACCU) and has presented on issues in higher education nationally as well as in Lithuania and Japan.

Rebecca J. White, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur and an educator and currently holds the Walter Chair of Entrepreneurship at the University of Tampa (UT). She received an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University and a B.S. from Concord University. Her primary research and teaching interests are in opportunity recognition and entrepreneurship pedagogy. Dr. White has held a number of leadership roles in the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) serving as President in 2012. In 2015, Dr. White was selected to join the Justin G. Longnecker Fellows, a prestigious group of educators who have significantly impacted the entrepreneurship discipline. She has served as a member of the Executive Council of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers for 8 years. Under her leadership, the entrepreneurship program at UT was named the 2014 Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship program in the country. Dr. White was named the Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year 2010, was a 2006 Athena Award finalist, a 2005 recipient of the Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, and was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner in 2003. Prior to her work at UT, she built a nationally ranked entrepreneurship program at Northern Kentucky University. She was the founding director of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Institute, an educational program for female entrepreneurs, offered jointly with the New York Times. She grew up in a family business and is the founder of several companies.