upcoming talks


  • Friday, January 20, 2023
    LaGuardia Community College PSC Chapter, CUNY

  • Wednesday, February 15, 2023
    English Department, BMCC

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

  • Tuesday, March 21 2023
    Faculty Union,
    American River College, CA

  • Friday, April 21, 2023
    Chesapeake College
    Wye Mills, Maryland

  • Friday, April 28, 2023
    CUNY Academy for the Humanities & Sciences
    CUNY Graduate Center

book-related publications


Recent contribution to The BMCC Inquirer
Excerpt from The Costs of Completion

Inside Higher Ed:
Making Community College More Joyful

Inaugural Book Podcast

New Books Network
Hosted by
Zalman Newfield
February 2, 2022

Listen here

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

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

Recent Book Talks


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

Summer Institute on Social Justice
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
View here

“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

DuBois Leadership Lunch Event, Old Dominion University, June 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