AESS-Special Projects at Azusa Pacific University.Andreé Robinson-Neal, EdD, serves the global community as a scholar-practitioner dedicated to the study of diversity in higher education. Most recently she worked on special projects and completed an assessment of support services for adult and graduate students at Azusa Pacific University for the 2011-13 year. She served as Azusa Pacific University’s Inland Empire Regional Center Director from 2007 through 2011. Prior to moving to Southern California with her family, Dr. Robinson-Neal lived in southern New Jersey and has used her counseling and leadership skills in a variety of positions, including spending seven years as an administrator at Salem Community College in southern New Jersey. She completed her doctoral studies at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, with a dissertation entitled “Using Social Network Analysis to Examine How Perceived Beliefs Affect Service Quality in Public Higher Education Institutions” and also completed the Fielding Graduate University “Teaching in the Virtual Classroom” program. She continues to be involved as an alumnus, particularly with the Southern California/Central California Cluster group. Dr. Robinson-Neal currently serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of World Christianity (JOWC), the International Journal of Peace and Development Studies (IJPDS), the International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL), Graduate Research Journal, Current Issues in Education (CIE), and the International Journal of Multicultural Education (IJME).
Dr. Robinson-Neal has presented at the Narrowing the Gulf conference in 2006, 2007, and 2010 as well as a number of other venues. She has been published in the Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, Essays in Education, the Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, Exceptional Parent magazine, and the International Journal of Multicultural Education. She is currently working on a manuscript related to redevelopment and revitalization in US urban centers and recently authored a chapter on equity for online students-with- limitations in IGI Global’s Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration. She has taught Introduction to Ethnic Studies (traditional undergraduate), Diversity for Strategic Advancement (online graduate), and has served as lead instructor for an independent study course (graduate) at Azusa Pacific University. Her research interests include but are not limited to: higher education administration, community college education and administration, social networking, faith, social justice, grounded theory, diversity, redevelopment and revitalization of US urban centers.
