Angela Vaughan, Ph.D.

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Professional/Academic Experience

Provides the overall leadership, administration, and management for the university’s first year programs designed to increase student academic engagement, success, and retention. Responsible for the research, planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the recruitment, enrollment, curriculum and delivery functions of the courses.

Publications/Creative Works

Vaughan, A. L., Martell, J., Dixon, B., & French, E. (2024). First-year college achievement and graduation rates for Hispanic and Hispanic first-generation students. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 23(4), 265 – 279. https://doi.org/10.1177/15381927241241249

Martell, J., Kriescher, D., Agboola, O., Hauck, A., Sands, H., Kershaw, S., & Vaughan, A. L. (2024). Relationship of online summer programming and successful transitions for first-time college students during COVID-19. Journal of First Year Experience and Students in Transition, 36(1), 71 – 91.

Graham, M., Wayne, I., Moore, S., Dorn, B., & Vaughan, A. L. (2023). Academic first-year seminar: Four-year retention and graduation for all first-time students and students at additional risk. Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students In Transition, 35(1), 111 – 127.

Dixon, B., Agboola, O., Hauck, A., Argento, M., Miller, C., & Vaughan, A. L. (2023). Peer mentoring: Benefits to first-time college students and their peer mentors. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 23(2), 202 - 217. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v23i2.5816

Pickenpaugh, E. N., Yoast, S. R., Baker, A., & Vaughan, A. L. (2021). The role of first-year seminars and first-year college achievement for undeclared students. Higher Education, 83(5), 1063 – 1077. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00729-0

Ward, C., Ohde, K., Rose, J. S., Park, J., Critchlow, C., & Vaughan, A. L. (2020). First-year seminars: Supporting STEM college student academic success and persistence. Journal of First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 32(2), 45 – 58.