Jenny Jacobs Author

Don Haviland is professor and department chair in the educational leadership department at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Haviland has over 25 years of experience in academic and student affairs, as well as educational research, and has extensive experience studying the faculty socialization and development process. As senior research associate at WestEd, he was part of a small team that evaluated the Preparing Future Faculty program, designed to prepare graduate students for the full range of faculty careers, for the National Science Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation. In his time at CSULB, he has studied a faculty development program around assessment and the expectations and experiences of full-time contingent faculty related to collegiality. His longitudinal study of 9 pre-tenure faculty through the first 6 years of their careers provides the empirical foundation for the proposed book.

Nathan F. Alleman is associate professor in the higher education studies program at Baylor University and a research fellow with the Texas Hunger Initiative. His work focuses on marginal and marginalized populations and institutions.

Cara Cliburn Allen is a doctoral candidate in the higher education studies and leadership program at Baylor University. Cliburn Allen studies the success factors of various subpopulations in higher education, including faculty (nontenure-track faculty and faculty denied tenure), underrepresented students (food insecure, community college), and student affairs administrators.

Jenny Jacobs is an adjunct professor of theater who has served undergraduate and graduate programs at institutions on the east and west coasts including Temple University, Rider University, Cypress College, and Chapman University. Jacobs’s own research focuses on the value of the performing arts in higher education.

Adrianna Kezar is a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and codirector of the Pullias Center for Higher Education. Kezar is a national expert of student success, equity and diversity, the changing faculty, change, governance, and leadership in higher education. Kezar is well published with 18 books and monographs, more than 100 journal articles, and more than 100 book chapters and reports. Recent books include Envisioning the Faculty of the 21st Century (Rutgers University Press, 2016), How Colleges Change (Routledge, 2013), Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership (Stanford Press, 2011) and Organizing for Collaboration (Jossey-Bass, 2009). She is the project director for the Delphi Project on the changing faculty and student success and was just awarded a grant from the Teagle Foundation for institutions that better support faculty and create new faculty models.