Author Bio(s)
Dr. Phillip A. Olt is an associate professor of higher education and educational research in the Department of Advanced Education Programs at Fort Hays State University. He coordinated the MSE in Higher Education Student Affairs prior to the program being sunset, and he now teaches research methodology. He researches special populations in higher education and serves as a qualitative methodologist. Please direct correspondence to paolt@fhsu.edu.
Dr. Mitch Nasser is an associate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education and Human services at Lindenwood University. Prior to his transition to a faculty role in 2016, he had 16 years of professional student affairs experience. His research focuses on social justice education, supervision, men’s issues, and campus safety.
Dr. Louise Michelle Vital is a senior lecturer in higher education administration in the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development at Boston University. Her primary line of inquiry is related to the global dimensions of higher education. Her work centers on a country and regional focus on Haiti and the Caribbean, student experiences in higher education, community/university partnerships, practitioner–scholar preparation, and critical reflexive practice in academia.
Dr. Steve Tolman is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Technology and Human Development at Georgia Southern University. His research agenda is informed and guided by my thirteen years as a student affairs professional, now focused on organizational, management, and leadership practices within higher education and co-curricular and extracurricular activities of college students.
Dr. James G. Archibald is a professor of higher education and chair of the Department of Higher Education Leadership at Bellarmine University. Previously, he served as the Vice President of Student Affairs at Valdosta State University and is a licensed professional counselor.
Dr. Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif is an associate professor of higher education in the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her scholarship focuses on student identity development, international and global education, and issues of social justice and advocacy within higher education. She explores the lives of individuals within higher education who define themselves as living between worlds at the intersections of ability, race, religion, ethnicity, gender expression, and the like at the micro-level and dominate power structures within their environments at the macro-level.
Dr. Blue Brazelton is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University. His research primarily focuses on minoritized student groups, technology in higher education, and United States community and two-year colleges and is published in many of our field’s research and scholarly journals. He is especially concerned about the ways that colleges and universities select and implement new technologies and the interaction with faculty, students, staff, and stakeholders.
Dr. Rozana Carducci is an associate professor of education and graduate director of the Master of Higher Education in the Department of Education and Wellness at Elon University. Her research and teaching interests include higher education leadership, student affairs administration, qualitative methodology, and the politics of inquiry.
Dr. Michael Houdyshell is an associate professor of higher education leadership in the Department of Leadership, Counseling, and Human Development (LCHD) at Florida Gulf Coast University. His research interests include academic advising, college students and mental health, helping skills, curriculum design, and collaborative research design.
Dr. Tryan L. McMickens is a professor and program coordinator of the M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration at North Carolina Central University. His research focuses on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, college mental health, and strategic planning; his work centers historically marginalized and underserved populations that may suffer from inequities.
Dr. Cara Meixner is a professor in the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University. Her research interests include higher education pedagogy and change, brain injury survivor advocacy, and research methodologies.
Dr. Molly Mistretta is an associate professor of student affairs and higher education and the chair of the Department of Counseling and Development at Slippery Rock University. Her research interests focus on burnout and secondary traumatic stress in education settings (P-20) and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Dr. Amy Paciej-Woodruff is an associate professor of higher education administration in the School of Education at Marywood University. Before becoming a faculty member, she was the Assistant Vice President for Student Life also at Marywood University. Her research interests include male college student engagement as it relates to masculinity identity development, belonging, and online instruction.
Dr. Richard Stevens now serves as the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Shepherd University. Previously, as a faculty member, he coordinated the M.A. in College Student Development and Administration.
Dr. Ann Wendle is the director of assessment and program coordinator for the M.A. in College Student Development and Administration at Shepherd University. Her research interests include women in higher education, oppression, cultural competency, technology and sustaining recovery, and social service crisis intervention.
Claude E.P. Mayo is an adjunct professor (formerly visiting assistant professor) in the M.Ed. in Student Affairs Administration and Leadership program at the University of Bridgeport. He is a scholar-practitioner whose research interests include higher education law, black students, and the college student experience.
Recommended APA Citation
Olt, P. A., Nasser, M., Vital, L. M., Tolman, S., Archibald, J. G., Bodine Al-Sharif, M. A., Blue Brazelton, Carducci, R., Houdyshell, M., McMickens, T. L., Meixner, C., Mistretta, M., Paciej-Woodruff, A., Stevens, R., Wendle, A., & Mayo, C. E. P. (2026). Solo faculty program coordinators in student affairs-related graduate programs. The Qualitative Report, 31(4), 5686-5709. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2026.7935
