Spring 2025


Faculty read of The Costs of Completion 
Dutchess Community College
April 1, 2025


Join me in Albany at the Public Good U: Strengthening the Case for Public
Higher Education
February 8, 2025


Delighted to be the keynote at the Association of Faculty for
the Advancement of Community College Teaching, hosted by
Montgomery College
January 10, 2025


Summer 2024


Zooming with students to talk about The Costs of Completion, which they read for their Community College Leadership Seminar! Many thanks to Dr. Amanda Latz for adopting the book!

Ball State University, Indiana
July 2, 2024


Spring 2024


Faculty Development Flex-Day
Community College of San Francisco
January 12, 2024


Keynote address, Advocacy and Policy Conference
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
Sacramento, CA
February 25, 2024


Staff Development Day
Brightpoint Community College
Chester, VA
March 4, 2024


Book Discussion of The Costs of Completion
The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions
March 18, 2024

Watch Here


Summer & Fall 2023


Zooming with grad students
Northern Illinois University's EdD program in Community College Leadership discussing The Costs of Completion, which they read as part of their summer intensive! Thanks for the adoption!
June 16, 2023

Interested in adopting the book for your course?: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12672/costs-completion


Book talk: The Costs of Completion
Teaching and Learning Section pre-conference
“Sociology Now More than Ever”
American Sociological Association, Philadelphia
August 17, 2023

https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting/2023-annual-meeting/2023-registration/preconferences/


Book talk: The Costs of Completion
Leon M. Goldstein Lecture
Kingsborough Community College
October 31, 2023


2023 Book Talks


LaGuardia Community College PSC Chapter CUNY
January 20, 2023

English Department, BMCC
February 15, 2023

Author Meets Critics
Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
Baltimore, MD
February, 24, 2023

Los Rios College Federation of Teachers
American River College, CA
March 21, 2023

Faculty Assembly
Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, Maryland
April 21, 2023

CUNY Academy for the Humanities & Sciences
and the PhD program in Sociology

CUNY Graduate Center
May 5, 2023

Book-related Podcasts


The BMCC Inquirer
Excerpt from The Costs of Completion
Read Here

Inside Higher Ed
Making Community College More Joyful
Read Here

Inaugural Book Podcast
New Books Network, Hosted by Zalman Newfield
February 2, 2022
Listen here

The New Book Exhibit, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2022

Amplifying Voices
A FACCC Podcast, hosted by Ryan Tripp & John Fox
Listen here

2022 Book Talks

Community Book Read
Sierra College, California
November 29, 2022

Presidential Book Club
Queensborough Community College, CUNY
November 7, 2022

DuBois Leadership Lunch Event Panelist
Summer Institute
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
June 8, 2022

Summer Institute on Social Justice Keynote
Community College of Morris
Randolph, NJ
June 3, 2022

“Assessment During a Crisis: Assessing Student Retention in a Post-COVID Era” Keynote address
BMCC, CUNY
May 13, 2022
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“Making Sense of the Crisis: College Completion and the Community College Student"
County College of Morris
Department of Sociology, Economics and Anthropology
Randolph, NJ
April 21, 2022


Research Committee, Department of Academic Literacy
and Linguistics

Borough of Manhattan Community
College, CUNY
March 24, 2022

Center for Excellence
Holyoke Community College, MA
February 15, 2022

DuBois Leadership Lunch Event, Old Dominion University, June 2022