Keynote Speaker

Jerry Pattengale, PhD

Jerry Pattengale speaks nationally and contributes regularly to the scholarship on millennials and student success. His engagements include a wide variety of campuses, from Colgate, Texas A & M, Ivy Tech, Indiana and the University of Houston to Taylor, Azusa Pacific, University of South Florida and University of Michigan. His publications range from a popular newsprint series and the “Accidental Author” blog for Paxton Media to research-based texts and articles, e.g., Why I Teach (McGraw-Hill, Feb. 2008), Visible Solutions for Invisible Students (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), The Purpose-Guided Student (McGraw-Hill, in press), and the forthcoming sophomore book co-authored with John Gardner, Stuart Hunter et al. (Jossey-Bass). He also is leading numerous broadcasts with Magna Publications (The Teaching Professor) and PaperClips.

He co-produced one of the world’s “Top Ten” accessed websites and a related virtual curriculum, The Odyssey in Egypt program (1996). His Virtual Advising Link (VAL) system was a NACADA award recipient (1999, one of first systems to provide virtual pictorial directories). Jerry served on the Advisory Board for the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition (USC), has just been named to The Journal of the First Year’s advisory board.  In 2000, Houghton Mifflin Publishers and The National Resource Center presented him the “National Student Advocate Award.”

Jerry led the development of Indiana Wesleyan University’s first-year experience program centered on a new liberal arts course, “Becoming World Changers.” Retention rates have climbed from 68% to 82% with this program. In 2004, IWU received national recognition for these efforts through its selection as a Founding Institution in the Foundations of Excellence program of the National Policy Center (NC).

He was raised in a family of ten in Buck Creek, Ind., and at 16 was both a high school graduate and without a home - a story recorded by the NPR/WIBP special, “Leading the Way out of Poverty” (2006), and in his humorous newsprint series (www.indwes.edu/buckcreek). Jerry is a Professor of History and currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Scholarship and Grants at IWU. Jerry received two “Professor of the Year” awards while teaching in California and an NEH award to study in Greece. He was recently appointed to the Governor’s Council on Faith Based Initiatives. Jerry’s most recent work is the forward in the 2006 Student Development in the First College Year: A Primer for College Educators (USC) and “Student Success or Student Non-Dissatisfaction” (Growth journal, Spring 2006).

Recent Essays Related to Student Success Topics

Garner, J. Bradley and Jerry A. Pattengale, eds. Becoming World Changers Learning Resource Guide, Marion, Ind.: Indiana Wesleyan University, 2006; see Millard, Bill. “Discover Your Life Calling: Unleash the Power of Purpose in Your Life,” pp. 29-36.

Laurie Schreiner and Jerry Pattengale. "What Is the Sophomore Slump, and Why Should We Care?" Koinonia (Winter 2001): 6-11.

Pattengale, Jerry A. “Indiana Wesleyan University” in Exploring the Evidence: Reporting Research on First-Year Seminars. Vol. III. Monograph 42. Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Bradley E. Cox and Mary T. Wagner, eds. Columbia, SC: The National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, USC, 2005.

Pattengale, Jerry A. “Student Success or Student Non-Dissatisfaction?” Growth. No. 6 (Spring 2006): 13-25.

Pattengale, Jerry A. “The Hope Scale: A Measurement of Willpower and Waypower” in Proving and Improving Volume III: Tools and Techniques for Assessing the First College Year, Randy L Swing, ed. Monograph 37. Columbia, SC: The National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, USC, 2004: 157-160.

Pattengale, Jerry A. and Barbara Tobolowsky, “The Role of Purpose among Sophomore Programs,” chapter one in Helping Sophomores Succeed, John Gardner, Stuart Hunter, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Jerry A. Pattengale, Laurie Schreiner, Molly Schaller, Scott Evenbeck. New York: Jossey-Bass, in press.

Pattengale, Jerry A. and Laurie Schreiner. “Forward: The Advances in Sophomore Studies in Barbara Tobolowsky and Bradley Cox, The Sophomore Experience. USC: National Resource Center, in press.

Pattengale, Jerry A. Forward in Tracy L Skipper, Student Development in the First College Year: A Primer for College Educators. Columbia, SC: The National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, USC, 2005.

Pattengale, Jerry A., Bill Millard et al. Foundations of Excellence Report, 2005, u.p.

Pattengale, Jerry A., Ed Chan, Julie Stockenberg. “Meeting the Needs of the Second College Year.” CD of national broadcast (Dec. 7, 2006) PaperClip Productions and the National Media Services. Essam Abozid, project manager.

Pattengale, Jerry A. and Don Sprowl, Rob Thompson and Kim Parker. (January 2008) "The Purpose-Guided Campus: Homework to Mentoring Hall." Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education .

Pattengale, Jerry A. "The Tension between Leadership and Management among Academic Leaders." The Academic Leader (2008, in press).

 

 

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