Executive Director, First Year Experience & Student Transitions
Cabrini University
Radnor, PA

I am the Executive Director of the First Year Experience and Student Transitions at Cabrini University, am the founding director of Cabrini’s learning community program, and serve as the Faculty Director of the IMPACT (Leadership) Living and Learning Community teaching writing, social justice, English and leadership studies coursework.

My recent publications focused on learning communities include, The Critical Nature of Intentionality When Supporting Academically Underprepared Students Through Learning Communities (forthcoming); Deeper Life Interactions: Nurturing Student-Faculty Relationships in a Non-Residential Learning Community; Writing Across the Curriculum Through Community Engagement: Exploring the Foster Care System in a Thematic Living and Learning Community;  a case study connecting LLCs and first-year seminars in a book titled, Educationally Effective Practices Within the First-Year Seminar; and, Beyond Improved Retention: Building a Value Added Success on a Broad Foundation.

I am currently serving as the President of the Learning Communities Association (LCA) and am a member of the editorial review board for both the Learning Communities Research and Practice (LCRP) and E-Source for College Transitions. My current research, via the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University, is focused on investigating the types of collaboration between academic and student affairs in residential learning communities that foster the practice of integrative learning among students.

My degrees include a B.A. in Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, a M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in College Student Personnel Administration from James Madison University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Cabrini University.