EditorsJohn M. Braxton, EditorJohn M. Braxton is Professor of Education in the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He teaches courses in the college student and theories of college student development. Professor Braxton record of scholarly publication includes over 80 publications in the form of refereed journal articles, books, edited books, and book chapters. His scholarship centers on two major programs of research: the study of the college student experience and the study of the academic profession. A large portion of his publication record consists of books, edited books, book chapters, and refereed journal articles focused on some aspect of the college student experience in general and the generation, testing and refining of theory related to college student departure in particular. More specifically, forty (40) of these various forms of publications address some aspect of the college student experience. Included among these publications are his book Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure (2004) co-authored with Amy S. Hirschy and Shederick A. McClendon and his edited volume Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle (1999).
In addition, Dr. Braxton's published work has appeared in the core publications of higher education: the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, the Review of Higher Education, and Higher Education: A Handbook of Theory and Research. In addition, his scholarship has also appeared in About Campus and the Journal of College Student Retention: Research Theory and Practice.
Professor Braxton also serves on two national advisory boards that address college students. He is a member of the Technical Review Panel for the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study sponsored by the National Center for Educational Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education. Professor Braxton also serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Braxton currently serves on the Advisory Board of the ASHE Higher Education Report (monograph) Series. Dr. Braxton recently completed a three year term as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of College Student Development. He also served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of College Student Retention: Theory, Research, and Practice from 1998 to 2008. He also served as a consulting editor for the Journal of Higher Education from 1982 to 2008 and Research in Higher Education from 1983 to 2008. Professor Braxton also served as the General Editor of the Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education book series published by the Vanderbilt University Press from 1996 to 2003. Dr. Braxton is a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He holds membership in ACPA, AERA (Division J), ASHE, and NASPA.
Susan R. Jones, Associate Editor for Book ReviewsSusan R. Jones is Associate Professor and Director of the College Student Personnel program at the University of Maryland-College Park. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in College Student Personnel Administration from the Counseling and Personnel Services Department at the University of Maryland in 1995, her Master of Education in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration at the University of Vermont in 1981, and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Saint Lawrence University in 1978. Prior to joining the faculty at Maryland Dr. Jones was an Associate Professor and Director of the Student Personnel Assistantship Program in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at The Ohio State University. She also served as Dean of Students at Trinity College of Vermont from 1989-1992.
Dr. Jones's scholarly interests include multiple identities and college student development, service-learning in higher education, and qualitative methodology.
She has published in educational journals including the Journal of College Student Development and the Journal of Higher Education on such topics as multiple dimensions of identity development, the role of meaning-making capacity in the construction of multiple identities, enduring influences of service-learning on college student's identity development, shifts and continuities in community service participation from high school to college, developing student understanding of HIV/AIDS through community service-learning, understanding diversity through community service-learning, disability as social construction, and dynamics of lesbian college students' multiple dimensions of identity. She and two colleagues (Drs. Vasti Torres and Jan Arminio) published a book entitled Negotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research: Fundamental Elements and Issues (Routledge, 2006). She has presented on her work at such conferences at ACPA, NASPA, ASHE, and NCORE.
Dr. Jones has a record of extensive professional service to such associations as NASPA, NAWE, and ACPA. Most recently, she served ACPA as Director of the Core Council for the Generation and Dissemination of Knowledge, two terms on the editorial board of JCSD, and member of the planning committee for the 2006 ACPA/NASPA joint meeting. She is also currently a member of the advisory board for NASPA's Center for Scholarship, Research, and Professional Development for Women and member of the editorial board for the Journal about Women in Higher Education.
Dr. Jones is the recipient of several prestigious awards including The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, ACPA's Emerging Scholar award and Diamond Honoree for significant contributions to higher education and student affairs.
Kristen A. Renn, Associate Editor for International Research and ScholarshipKristen A. Renn is Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, & Lifelong Education at Michigan State University, where she shares responsibility for leading the Student Affairs Administration master's program and teaches courses in the master's and doctoral programs. She earned a PhD in higher education from Boston College in 1998, an EdM in educational leadership from Boston University in 1988, and a bachelor's of arts cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1986. For ten years before becoming a faculty member, Dr. Renn was a dean in the Office of Student Life at Brown University.
Her scholarly interests center on issues of identity in higher education, including mixed race students, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. She is author or co-author of more than 50 publications, including five books and 12 refereed journal articles. She regularly presents at scholarly and professional association meetings, addressing her work to audiences of researchers and professionals in higher education. She is past Associate Editor of the ACPA Books and Media Board and serves or has served on the editorial boards of leading journals in the field: JCSD, NASPA Journal, Journal of Higher Education, and the Review of Higher Education. She is also book review editor for the AAUP bulletin Academe.
Dr. Renn is on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and is active in ACPA and NASPA. Her awards include research recognition awards from the ACPA Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness and the Michigan College Personnel Association, as well as awards for teaching excellence from the MSU College of Education and NASPA Region IV-East.
Vasti Torres, Associate Editor for On the Campus/ Research in BriefVasti Torres is associate professor of higher education and student affairs administration in the School of Education at Indiana University. She teaches courses in student development theory, research in higher education and student affairs administration. Dr. Torres has also been on the faculty of George Washington University as well as had administrative positions at University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Emory University, University of Virginia and most recently serving as Associate Vice Provost and Dean for Enrollment and Student Services at Portland State University in Portland, OR. Dr. Torres' research focuses on how the ethnic identity of Latino students influences their college experience. She has written over 20 journal articles, 8 book chapters, and 2 books such topics as Latino college students, survey development and use, qualitative research as well as other diversity issues. She is currently completing a book on her Department of Education funded multi-year grant study investigating the choice to stay in college for Latino students.
She is active in several higher education and student affairs associations. In 2007 - 2008 she became the first Latina president of a national student affairs association - ACPA. She has been honored as a Diamond Honoree, Wise Woman Award, and Emerging Scholar by the American College Personnel Association, Outstanding Faculty by the NASPA Latino/a Knowledge Community, Program Associate for the National Center for Policy in Higher Education, SACSA Scholar from the Southern Association of College Student Affairs, and the University of Georgia College of Education's 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award. She also active in ASHE, AERA, and NASPA. Dr. Torres holds a B.A. from Stetson University, a M.Ed., and Ph.D. in Student Affairs Administration from The University of Georgia.
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