Handbook for Student Affairs in Community Colleges (ePub)

her alma mater.

During her administrative career in Student Affairs she served as a Vice President for Student Affairs for nearly 23 years at Colorado State University, the Rochester Institute of Technology and SUNY, Cortland. She also served as Dean of Students at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and held various positions within student affairs divisions at Iowa State University and the University of Connecticut. She has served as an organizational consultant for a number of Colleges and Universities within the United States and in China.

She has published three books, Positioning Student Affairs for Sustainable Change, (2010), New Realities: Emerging Specialist Roles and Structures in Student Affairs Organizations, (2012) and The Handbook for Student Affairs in Community Colleges, (2014). She has published over 30 articles in referred journals, as well as numerous book chapters and presentations. Her research interests include: issues related to organizational behavior, change and leadership in student affairs and higher education, student engagement and retention, and student affairs professional development. In her limited spare time she is a painter, dabbling in a variety of media and also likes to bike and golf.



Paulette Dalpes is the deputy to the vice chancellor for student affairs at the City University of New York (CUNY), which serves more than 270,000 degree-seeking students at 24 institutions in New York City—including 7 community colleges. Dr. Dalpes has over 15 years of experience working at community colleges including in the role of the Chief Student Affairs Officer at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. In this capacity, she was instrumental in advancing the development of offices critical to student success including Counseling, Student Life, Athletics, Access Ability Services, Veteran’s Affairs and Student Conduct. Dr. Dalpes also worked at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts, as the director of academic support. Dalpes currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) as the director of the Community College Division. She has also served as faculty for several senior leadership institutes in NASPA. Her 27-year career in student affairs includes facilitating federally funded TRiO grant programs, training and development on issues of diversity and inclusion, and work in residential life at large universities. Dalpes attended Colorado State University as a first-generation college student, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in college student personnel administration. She earned her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts. She has an abiding respect for and commitment to community colleges and the mission of educational access especially for students who are low-income and first-generation to college.