Faculty
Program Faculty
The program faculty brings diverse expertise to student advising, curriculum design, and its delivery. The expertise of the faculty includes leadership, governance, student services, vocational education, community college issues, and issues related to individuals with disabilities. The faculty collaborate in program planning, and are actively involved in ongoing projects, research, writing, publications, grants and local and national and international education efforts.
Marilee J. Bresciani, Ph.D.
Professor
Marilee J. Bresciani, Ph.D. serves as a Professor of Postsecondary Educational Leadership at San Diego State University, where she coordinates the certificate in institutional research, planning, and assessment, and the doctorate in community college/postsecondary education leadership. The curriculum in these programs emphasizes the integration of out-of-class learning with in-class learning, the integration of intuition into evidence-based decision-making, and the practice of personal authenticity and integrity of leaders in a socially just and global environment.
Dr. Bresciani’s past research has focused on the evaluation of student learning and development and the role leaders play in using evidence to improve student learning and development in higher education. Her most recent research explores the roles of intuition, authenticity, and self-inquiry in evidence-based decision making.?Dr. Bresciani has held faculty and higher education administration positions for over 24 years. In those positions, she has conducted enrollment management research, quantitative and qualitative institutional research, course-embedded assessment, and academic and administrative program assessment. Previously as Assistant Vice President for Institutional Assessment at Texas A&M University and as Director of Assessment at North Carolina State University, Dr. Bresciani led university-wide initiatives to embed faculty-driven outcomes-based assessment in the curriculum. She has led reforms in outcomes-based assessment program review, assessment of general education, quality enhancement, and assessment of the co-curricular.
Dr. Bresciani has been invited to present and publish her findings on assessment and is a leading author of five books on assessing student learning and outcomes-based assessment program review and two books on self-inquiry and authenticity exploration. Dr. Bresciani has developed and delivered several courses on assessment of student learning, as well as self-inquiry. She is a managing partner in an international assessment and enrollment management consulting firm (UniversityAssessmentOnline.org) and the Founder of Rushing to Yoga Foundation, a foundation that promotes self-inquiry and the promotion of peace.
Dr. Bresciani studies yoga with the Baron Baptiste Power Yoga Institute. She teaches yoga on a voluntary basis and provides well-being seminars to higher education faculty, administrators, and students. It is through these seminars, where she promotes self-reflection, responsibility for one's actions, and strategies to empower others so that integrity and intuition can be integrated with evidence to inform decisions. Marilee’s mantra is “I teach what I need to learn.”
Dr. Bresciani holds a Ph.D. in Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction from the University of Nebraska and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Hastings College.
Dr. Marilee Bresciani can be reached at mbrescia@mail.sdsu.edu or at rushingtoyoga@gmail.com
Frank Harris III, Ed.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Frank Harris III is an associate professor of postsecondary education at San Diego State University. His research is broadly focused on student development in higher
education and explores questions related to the social construction of gender and race on college campuses, college men and masculinities, and racial/ethnic disparities in college
student outcomes. His scholarship has been published in the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Men’s Studies, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice,
Qualitative Research, and a range of other journals and edited books. He is co-editor (with Shaun R. Harper) of College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and
Implications for Practice (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Since 2004, he has delivered more than 50 professional conference presentations, research papers, workshops, symposia, and other
scholarly addresses. In 2007, Harris received dissertation of the year awards from the American Educational Research Association (Division J) and the Association for Student
Judicial Affairs. In 2008, he received an Outstanding Research Award from the American College Personnel Association’s (ACPA) Standing Committee for Men. In 2010 he was named
an ACPA Emerging Scholar and received the ACPA Annuit Coeptis Award for early career achievement. Harris was program chair for the ACPA/NASPA 2009 Conference on College Men
and currently serves on the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice editorial board.
Before joining the faculty at San Diego State, Harris spent nearly 10 years as a student affairs educator and college administrator working in the areas of student affairs
administration, student crisis support and advocacy, new student orientation programs, multicultural student affairs, academic advising, and enrollment services. His most
recent administrative appointment was at the University of Southern California as Associate Director of the Center for Urban Education.
Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Loyola Marymount University, a master’s degree in Speech Communication from California State University
Northridge, and an Ed.D. in Higher Education from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.
Dr. Frank Harris III can be reached at frank.harris@sdsu.edu or (619)594-1551
Shaila Mulholland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Shaila Mulholland is Assistant Professor of Postsecondary Education in the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education. Her teaching and research interests focus on the study of community colleges; the experiences of students as they navigate postsecondary institutions; and research methods—in particular, case study research, historical methods, and policy analysis focusing on state educational systems. Her dissertation study titled, The Lessons from Fifty Years of Access and Equity Strategies in Indiana, explored from a historical perspective the state's unique development of community colleges. This study, funded in part by the ASHE-Lumina Foundation Fellowship, revealed the debates among federal, state, and institutional policy actors pertaining to access and equity in postsecondary education.
Prior to coming to San Diego State University, Dr. Mulholland was a research assistant for the Alliance for International Higher Education Policy Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy and a project associate at the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University Bloomington. Working with the Center’s National Survey of Student Engagement, she was a team member of the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) Project. Most recently, Dr. Mulholland served as a consultant for the California Community College Collaborative (C4) based at the University of California Riverside.
Dr. Mulholland is an active member of the following professional organizations: the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), the American Education Research Association (AERA), Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC), and the Organization of Educational Historians (OEH). She holds a PhD in Higher Education Administration from New York University, a Masters in Higher Education and Bachelors in biology from Indiana University Bloomington.
Dr. Mulholland can be reached at smulholland@mail.sdsu.edu or (619)594-4849
Assistant Professor
J. “Luke” Wood, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education (ARPE) at San Diego State University. Dr. Wood is Co-Editor of the Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME) and Chair of the Multicultural & Multiethnic Education (MME) special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Luke also serves as a Young Academic Fellow for the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Lumina Foundation for Education. His research focuses on community colleges, specifically in the areas of ethical leadership and decision-making, Black male achievement, and leadership development.
Dr. Luke can be reached at luke.wood@sdsu.edu.
Kendra Jeffcoat, Ph. D.
Kendra Jeffcoat (Ph.D., Industrial Organizational Psychology; MA Psychology; MA Speech Communication) served as a community college faculty member in Speech, English, and Psychology for 25 years and a community college administrator for 13 years. Her administrative positions included Instructional Dean (Mesa College), Interim Dean of Student Affairs (Grossmont College), Interim Assistant Chancellor (San Diego Community College District), and Vice President of Academic Services (Imperial Valley College).
Her research interests focus on program and curriculum development, effective teaching strategies, and the link between institutional policies, curriculum, teaching and student learning outcomes. Kendra is teaching in the doctoral program for Community College Leadership and will be coordinating the Community College Teaching Certificate.
Dr. Jeffcoat may be reached at kendrajeffcoat@gmail.com.
Adjunct Faculty
Sandra Cook, Ph. D.
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Enrollment Services
San Diego State University
In her position at San Diego State University, Dr. Cook oversees the operation of the many facets of Enrollment Services including admission, registration, student records, academic advising, the student information system, the class schedule, the General Catalog, and the curriculum process. She received her B.S. in psychology, M.A. in urban studies, and Ph.D. in higher education from Loyola University Chicago. Her areas of academic interest and research are academic advising and the history of higher education and student affairs. She has held leadership positions in the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Prior to San Diego State University, Dr. Cook served as Associate Dean of Mundelein College at Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. Cook can be reached at scook@mail.sdsu.edu or (619)594-5384
James R. Kitchen, Ed. D.
Vice President for Student Affairs
San Diego State University
He provides leadership for the 17 departments within the Division as well as the Assistant Deans for Student Affairs in each of the university's colleges, and for the Associated Students.
Dr. Kitchen received his B.S. in Physical Education and his M.S. in Education from Eastern Illinois University. He received his doctorate in Higher Education Administration at Northern Arizona University and went on to hold leadership positions at UNLV and the University of Kansas before coming to San Diego State University.
Dr. Kitchen can be reached at jkitchen@mail.sdsu.edu or (619)594-5211
Mark Tucker, Ph. D.
Interwork Institute
San Diego State University
Mark Tucker is a Project Manager with the Interwork Institute at San Diego State University where is in involved in a variety of training, research, and program evaluation efforts. He also teaches graduate courses on a part-time basis in the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Post-Secondary Education at SDSU. Prior to joining the staff at the Interwork Institute, Mark worked as Program Coordinator for a Southern California-based non-profit agency providing case management, crisis counseling, and vocational planning services. He has experience working with diverse groups including victims of domestic violence. Mark is a certified rehabilitation counselor; he holds a Masters of Science degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in Human Rehabilitation from the University of Northern Colorado.
Dr. Tucker can be reached at mtucker@interwork.sdsu.edu or (619) 594-3498
Stephen F. Barnes, Ph.D.
Interwork Institute
San Diego State University
Dr. Stephen Barnes is currently Adjunct Professor of Education with the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education (College of Education) and a Senior Research Associate with the Interwork Institute at San Diego State University (SDSU). He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses, including Research Methods, Adult Learning, Teaching Methods and Materials, Educational Psychology (Adults), Policy Analysis, and Educational Leadership.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education (Leadership and Policy Studies) from the University of Oregon, with supporting areas in Counseling Psychology and the Philosophy of Science. His postdoctoral training includes higher education and administrative law (Universities of Oregon and Georgia), student rights and institutional responsibilities (Federal Bar Association), financial management (Stanford University/WACUBO), college and university management (Carnegie-Mellon University/NCHEMS), and information systems (IBM).
Dr. Barnes has received numerous awards and professional recognition from such organizations as the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), Apple Computer, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census (Los Angeles Region), and for community leadership from United Way of San Diego County, San Diego Rotary Club, and the Community Service Center for the Disabled (San Diego Access Center).
Dr. Barnes can be reached at sbarnes@mail.sdsu.edu or (619) 594-8806.
Penny Rue, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor-Student Affairs
University of California, San Diego
Penny Rue serves as Vice Chancellor-Student Affairs at the University of California, San Diego, with broad responsibility for the safety and well being of students and their education outside the classroom. She served most recently for eight years as Dean of Students at the University of Virginia. Rue has taught College Student Development in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at UVa’s Curry School of Education. She served for five years as Senior Associate Dean of Students at Georgetown University and for seven years as Georgetown's Director of Student Programs. Her doctorate is in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation research focused on a conceptual study of community on the college campus. She has a Master’s degree in Student Personnel Services from The Ohio State University and an A.B. magna cum laude in English and Religion from Duke University. Earlier in her career she held posts at The University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Rue can be reached at prue@ucsd.edu or (858)534-4370
Director, Student Life & Leadership
San Diego State University
Randy Timm can be reached at rtimm@mail.sdsu.edu.
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