Working With Students in Community Colleges (PDF)

Lisa S. Kelsay is the Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts/Director of Academic Arts at Moraine Valley Community College (IL). In addition, she is also a part-time instructor in education at Moraine Valley Community College and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School at Kaplan University. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Loyola University Chicago (IL), an M.A. in student personnel administration in higher education from Ball State University (IN), and a B.S. in education from the University of Akron (OH). Through the past 15+ years, Dr. Kelsay has worked in both student and academic affairs, private and public, and at two-year and four-year colleges. Her research has been published in The Journal of College Admission. She served as the 2009-2012 Chair of the ACPA Commission for Student Development in the Two-Year College. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is an affiliate of the Office of Community College Leadership and Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Policy Organization Leadership (EPOL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Formerly she served as Professor and Coordinator of the Community College Leadership Program in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University. She held prior appointments at West Virginia University, ACT Inc., and Mathematica Policy Research (MPR), Inc. She holds a B.S. in Psychology and M.S. in General Experimental Psychology from Western Illinois University. She earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration with a specialization in Community College Leadership and Evaluation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zamani-Gallaher's teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, and women in leadership. Her work includes coauthoring The Case for Affirmative Action on Campus: Concepts of Equity, Considerations for Practice (Sterling, VA: Stylu