ODU Community College Leadership Program

02/11/2023

Spring grads/all who are walking at Spring Commencement: it is regalia time! Visit https://ww1.odu.edu/academics/graduation-commencement/commencement/graduates/graduation-fair for information.

The Graduation Fair is the opportunity for graduating students to purchase their caps, gowns and tassels.

01/31/2023

Community College Leadership is expanding! We are searching for a third faculty member specializing in community colleges to join our program in July 2023. This is a tenure-track Assistant Professor line. Research specialization within the study of community colleges is open. Please spread the word far and wide, and consider applying yourself! See the linked job ad below for more details. Review of applications will begin February 27. Questions? Contact search chair Dr. Mitchell Williams at mrwillia at odu dot edu.

Old Dominion University’s Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the Darden College of Education & Professional Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in Community College Leadership beginning July 2023. Applicants should be comfort...

01/21/2023

Prospective Ph.D. students - join us for a program information session this Tuesday, January 24 at noon in advance of our February 1 application deadline! This is a joint session with the ODU Higher Education Program. Come with all the questions on your spirit - Drs. Smithers and Williams, Graduate Program Directors for the Higher Education and Community College Leadership Programs, respectively, will open with a short overview of each program and reserve the balance of time for Q&A. RSVP at https://sforce.co/3WmeP0a to receive both the Zoom link as well as an ODU application fee waiver!

12/06/2022

Save the date! Summer Institute will be June 4-16, 2023 - many more details to follow!

10/24/2022

CCL community - alumni, current students, prospective students, and friends of the program - we are holding two in person gatherings this term! The first is a lunch in Richmond on Wednesday, November 30. The second is a dinner in DC on Thursday, December 1. Both are free to attend; RSVP needed so we can make sure to have enough food and swag to go around. Prospective students are especially encouraged to join! Join us and re/connect in person with the program. For more details and to RSVP, see

We invite all alumni, current students, and prospective students in and around the Richmond Region to meet for lunch and updates on the programs. The event will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 12:00 (noon) at the Virginia Community College System Offices in Richmond. Alumni and current st...

10/23/2022

Alumni! Your faculty have spent a lot of time recently updating our records so that we can stay in touch with you! If:
- *you do not currently receive the monthly M2M program update email*, and
- you did not get an email from Dr. Laura Smithers just now, and
- you’d like to receive updates from the program!,
- sign up at http://eepurl.com/hcS20D .

You’ll receive a monthly newsletter and about two-ish additional emails a year with information on alumni-specific events. Questions? Email Dr. Smithers at lsmither at odu dot edu. I (it’s Laura here, I’m the woman behind the curtain) will get back to you as quickly as I can to get your information correct in our system.

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09/09/2022

Congratulations to Dr. David Lerman for successfully defending his dissertation, "Combining Cognitive and Noncognitive Assessments to Predict First Year GPA and Persistence in Community College Students." Dr. Mitchell Williams served as dissertation chair, and Dr. Linda Bol and Dr. Chris Glass (of Boston College) served as committee members.

05/21/2022

Congratulations!

Smithers, L. E., Fischer, H., & Watrous, F. (2022). Impasses of affective inquiry in pandemic times. International Review of Qualitative Research.

This paper puzzles through the doubled impasses of our affective inquiry into learning communities in a college setting. In so doing, we take on the incommensur...

05/08/2022

Congratulations to the CCL+HIED Class of 2022! Check out photos from this year’s Hooding Ceremony at https://bit.ly/cclhiedgrad22.

106 new items added to shared album

04/21/2022

CCL alumni, current students, and faculty contributed to the program for the the Virginia Community College System’s New Horizons Conference on April 6-8, 2022.

04/18/2022

CCL and HIED doctoral candidates, alumni, and faculty presented research at the 2022 Conference of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges in Tempe, Arizona. Presentation titles and presenters are listed below:

A Comparison of Imposter Phenomenon in Community College and Four-Year University Students
Shanda Jenkins
Mitchell Williams

Community College Discourses of Sustainability in Academic and Professional Publications
Minghui Hou
David F. Ayers

The Unique Experiences of African American Women that Impact Entry into the Community College Presidential Pipeline
Dana Stilley
Mitchell Williams

A Probabilistic Topic Modeling Analysis of Community College Dissertation Abstracts from 2010 to 2020
Kimberley Cossey
David F. Ayers

Narratives from Appalachia: The Current Stories of LGBTQ Community College Students
Todd Cimino-Johnsono
Mitchell Williams

Old Dominion University was a Double-Diamond Sponsor for CSCC 2022.

04/18/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca White for successfully defending her dissertation, "Faculty Perceptions in Teaching Clinical Reasoning at the Patient Bedside". Dr. Mitchell Williams served as dissertation chair, and Dr. Kim Bullington and Dr. Laura Smithers served as committee members.