Faculty Accomplishments
Dr. Melissa Fickling received a highly prestigious award, the Diversity Initiatives Award, from the National Career Development Association (NCDA) this past year. Dr. Fickling is also co-chairing the Revision Task Force for Career Counseling Multicultural Competencies with this organization.
Dr. Kimberly Hart is leading the Men of Color Research Team in the Counseling Program. The team includes both master’s and doctoral students engaging in advocacy-oriented research. The goals of this team includes creating opportunities for highlighting and uplifting the voices of experience men of color as people in general society, in counseling, and as helping professionals.
Dr. Xiaodan Hu was selected to serve as a consulting editor on the editorial board for Research in Higher Education: https://www.springer.com/journal/11162/editors
Dr. Katy Jaekel was selected to be programming co-chair for the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment section for the 2021 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) annual conference to be held in Puerto Rico this coming November
Dr. Carrie Kortegast contributed a chapter to a recently published book that would be an excellent addition to the libraries of our HESA graduates. It is particularly time given the ways in which the pandemic shifted the career landscape in higher education. Kortegast, C. (2020). Disclosure, Inclusion, and Consequences for LGBTQ Student Affairs Professionals. In M. W. Sallee’s (ed.) Creating Sustainable Careers in Student Affairs: What Ideal Worker Norms Get Wrong and How to Make it Right. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Dr. Jacki Mac received an honorable mention from AERA Division J for their Dissertation of the Year award. Her dissertation is titled “Becoming Minority Serving: Understanding How Institutional Agents Transform Their Institutions to Better Serve Target Student Populations” and she will be recognized at AERA Division J’s Business Meeting on Saturday, April 10.
Dr. Jacki Mac and Dr. Xiaodan Hu were selected to participate in the “NCES Data Institute: Using Federal Datasets to Support Research on Postsecondary Education,” which is an annual selective 4.5 month research intensive to engaged National Center for Education Statistics datasets and research methodologies.
Scholarship Accomplishments
Even as they were transitioning courses from a traditional face-to-face modality to an online platform, faculty have still been actively engaged in their scholarship as well.
Here are a few of our faculty’s latest accomplishments:
Selected Publications
Killam, W., Carter, A., & Degges-White, S. (2020). Group development and group leadership in student affairs. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Miville, M. L, & Hill, J. (2020, December) Indigenous healers were right all along! The case of multicultural competence, client worldview, and folk systems. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
Pillsbury, B., Hill, J., Calkovsky, A., Childs, J., Conwell, K., Frank, E., Inselman, K., Siwiec, A., & Patterson-Mills, S. (2020, October). Making video conferences equitable and inclusive. Career Convergence Web Magazine.
Hu, X., Fernandez, F., & Gandara, D. (2020). Are donations bigger in Texas? Analyzing the impact of a policy to match donations to Texas’ emerging research universities. American Educational Research Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831220968947 (This is one of the top journals in the field and we are so proud to know that Dr. Hu’s research has such significant value in her discipline.)
Jaekel, K. & Nicolazzo, Z. (2020). Institutional commitments to unknowing gender: Trans* and gender non-conforming educators’ experiences in higher education. Journal of Homosexuality. 1-23. doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2020.1848146
Jaekel, K. S. (2020). Benefits and challenges: Implementing e-portfolios in a graduate student affairs preparation program. College Student Affairs Journal, 38(2), 172-185. doi:10.1353/csj.2020.0012
Koo, K., Kim, Y., Lee, J. Y., & Nyunt, G. (2021). “It’s my fault”: Exploring experiences and mental wellness among Korean international graduate students. Journal of International Students, 11(4). https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jis/article/view/2801
Koo, K., Nyunt, G., & Wang, B. (2021). Who spends too much time online?: Associated factors of internet addiction among international college students in the United States. Journal of International Students, 11(1), 121-142. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11i1.2063
Niehaus, E., & Nyunt, G. (2020). Identifying meaningful individual-level change in educational experiences: Adding to our methodological toolkit. Journal of College Student Development, 61(5), 637-643. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766017
Zhu, P., Luke, M. M., & Bellini, J. L. (2021) A grounded theory analysis of cultural humility in counseling and counselor education. Counselor Education and Supervision, 60(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1002/ceas.12197 (This is a top tier journal in the field and we are excited to know that Dr. Zhu’s research is having such a significant impact on the profession.)
Funded Grants
Zhu, P. & Isawi, D. (2020). A mixed-method investigation of the development and enactment of cultural humility within Practicum-level counselors. Awarded $2445.00 through Norther Illinois University College of Education Dean’s Research Grant.
Chan, C. D., Dari, T., Chen, C-C, Zhu, P., & Borden, N. J. (2020). A Path Analysis of Cultural Humility between Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills and Social Issues Advocacy among Master’s Counseling Students. Awarded $500.00 through SACES Research Grant, sponsored by the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
Nyunt, G., McMillen, J., Oplt, K., & Beckham, V. (2020-2021). Flourishing in the Time of COVID-19: How Institutional Responses to COVID-19 Shape Students’ Well-Being. Awarded $1,000 through the NASPA Region IV-E Research and Assessment Grant. (Dr. Nyunt’s co-investigators are students here at NIU: Jeanine McMillen is a doctoral student and Kaley Oplt and Vanessa Beckham are master’s students.)
Selected Presentations and Webinars
Muirhead, K., Baquet S.N, Hill, J., & Marasco, V. (2021, February) The Intersections of Addiction and Incarceration: Culturally and Politically Informed Interventions for Substance Use Recovery. Strengthening the Heartland. Multi-state Collaborative.
Latiolais, S., & Hu, X. (2021, April). Pathways toward (unequal) earnings: A national study of students’ choice of career training program [Paper Session]. Annual meeting of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges. (Virtual conference). Scott Latiolais is a doctoral student in the Community College Leadership Program.
Nyunt, G., Cushing, J., & Hicks, T. (2021, Feb. 24). International students’ experiences at community colleges. Webinar hosted by ACPA’s Commission for Global Dimensions of Student Development. Dr. Jacob Cushing is an alumnus of the CCLP Program, Class of 2020.
Nyunt, G., Koo, K., & Zheng, Y. (2020, Nov. 16). Live briefing: International student mental health. Webinar hosted by NASPA’s International Education Knowledge Community.
Nyunt, G., &. Niehaus, E. (2021). Identifying meaningful individual-level changes in student learning and development. Methods workshop session presented at the 2021 ACPA Convention (virtual).
Nyunt, G., Niehaus, E., & Benavides, M. (2020). Interacting across differences after short-term study abroad. Paper presented at the ASHE Conference (virtual).
Nyunt, G., McMillen, J., Oplt, K., & Beckham, V. (2021, Feb. 4). NIU students’ mental well-being during COVID-19. Research presentation at NIU’s Virtual OneDay Conference 2021.
Zhu, P. (January 2021). Cultural Humility and Counseling Relationship in Complex Trauma. University of California San Francisco Trauma Recovery Center. Delivered virtually.
Zhu, P. (December 2020). Cultural Humility in Counseling and Clinical Supervision. Association for Contextual Behavioral Health. Delivered virtually.
Zhu, P. (November 2020). Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR): Overview of Data Collection and Analysis Strategies. Northern Illinois University Qualitative Inquiry Collaborative. Delivered virtually.
Zhu, P. (October 2020). Cultural Humility in Counseling and Clinical Supervision. Association of Chinese Helping Professionals and Psychologists–International. Delivered virtually.
