Meet the Director—Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick
Director, Portfolios for Student Success Programs and Senior Year Experience and Associate Professor—Communication

Website: http://www.joandominick.com

With over twenty-six years of successful work in higher education, Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick is an award winning college educator with a professional history in the disciplines of Adult Education and Communication. Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick holds a Doctorate in Adult Education from the University of Georgia (1990) and Masters Degree (1975) and Bachelors Degree (1973) in Communication Arts and Sciences from Queens College, City University of New York. As a doctoral student, she was a University of Georgia Kellogg Fellow. Currently she is the Director of the Senior-Year Experience at Kennesaw State University. This program, which she designed during her tenure in the Governor's Teaching Fellowship Program 1996-1997, prepares seniors for their post-university experiences as productive national and global citizens.

Since joining Kennesaw State University in 1990, she has chaired the Communication Department, won the 1996 Distinguished Teaching and the 1996 Regent's Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning at the university. Her academic project for the 1996 Regent's Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning award was the design and implementation of a Presentation Technology Center to enhance the technology presentation skills of students across the campus. She now collaborates with the Presentation Technology Center facilitators in creating the innovative E-Portfolio Initiative for the college students in her KSU 4401: Senior Seminar and KSU 1101: First-Year Seminar based on her RACCE (Reflect + Assess + Collect + Connect + Express) College Student Portfolio Process, copyright 2002. Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick is the co-author of The Complete Graduate: A Workbook for College Seniors (Kendall Hunt, Second Edition 2003).

Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick was the recipient of The Department of University Studies Distinguished Scholarship Award 2003 and was a semi-finalist for the Kennesaw State University Distinguished Scholarship Award 2003. She has lead academic presentations locally, nationally, and internationally in the areas of student success, the college student e-portfolio process and its integral connection to the discipline of Communication, higher education, and global citizenship. Her academic teaching, scholarship, and service have the all-inclusive academic mission of creating the E-Portfolio: Passport to Global Citizenship, which triangulates student reflection and connection to society for a just and equitable world, the ultimate goal of higher education.

Interviewed in:
Talon: Kennesaw State University's Feature Magazine, Fall 2005, “Professor Spotlight” section:

Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick’s KSU Oral History Project:

KSU Oral History Project 2005:

In collaboration with CETL and the College of the Humanities & Social Sciences, the KSU Oral History Project is collecting Oral Histories from all past recipients of the KSU Distinguished Professor, Teaching, Scholarship, and Service Awards. Archived in the KSU Library, Cobb County Library, and on CETL Website.

http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/oralhistories/Joan%20Dominick.pdf

Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick’s Academic Awards:

1996 Kennesaw State University Distinguished Teaching Award:

1996-1997 Governor’s Teaching Fellow:

2003 Department of University Studies Scholarship Award & Semi-Finalist for the Kennesaw State University Distinguished Scholarship Award

Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick's Websites:

Kennesaw State University Faculty Website:
http://www.joandominick.com

Senior-Year Experience Website—Content Provider:
http://www.kennesaw.edu/university_studies/sye

E-Portfolio: Passport to Global Citizenship—College Student Portfolio Initiatives:

E-Portfolio: Passport to Global Citizenship:
Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick, Dr. M. Leigh Funk, Dr. Dan Paracka, Mr. Ben Cope, and Ms. Jennifer Leifheit-Little:
http://www.eport2passport.com/

The E-Portfolio: From First-Year Experience to 21st Century Global Citizenship
Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick and Dr. M. Leigh Funk:
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/21c/

RACCE (Reflect + Assess + Collect + Connect+ Express) College Portfolio Process, Copyright 2002:
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/21c/racce.htm

College Student E-Portfolio Initiatives with Multimedia Development Group (MDG), formerly PTD:

Co-Authored Text for KSU 4401: Senior Seminar—Elective Institutional Capstone Course:

The Complete Graduate: A Workbook for College Seniors, Kendall Hunt, 2nd Edition, 2003, K. Andrews, J. Leichter Dominick, & D. Smith:

Faculty Presentations:
Follow this link to preview faculty presentations.

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