Higher Education Leadership
Our Faculty
Full-time graduate faculty members have extensive graduate teaching experience, myriad research publications, and years of practical experience as higher education administrators. Their areas of expertise are in the fields of college and university leadership, finance, policy, governance, student development, student affairs, community colleges, and minorities and women in higher education among many other areas. Click on their names for additional biographical information. Graduate associate faculty members teach part-time to support the mission of the program and add diversity of perspective in specialized courses and some serve on dissertation committees. Many Associate Graduate Faculty are full-time administrators in the field of higher education in such roles as vice presidents, deans, associate deans, dean, and department chairs. Adjunct faculty teach various courses, including those in the undergraduate leadership minor. The department faculty also includes outstanding educational leadership and research methodology experts, who along with our higher education faculty facilitate the core leadership and research courses.
Fulltime Faculty
Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors
Dr. Deborah L. Floyd
dfloyd@fau.edu
Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Program Leader and Ph.D. Coordinator
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Editor-in-Chief, The Community College Journal of Research & Practice (CCJRP)
Dr. Jennifer Bloom
bloomj@fau.edu
Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Founder of Office of Appreciative Education
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Co-Founder & Section Editor, Journal of Appreciative Education (JAE)
Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.
salinasc@fau.edu
Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Undergraduate Minor Coordinator
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Editor, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
Dr. Jarrett B. Warshaw
warshawj@fau.edu
Associate Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Dr. Katie Friesen
kfriesen@fau.edu
Assistant Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Higher Education M.Ed. Coordinator
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Associate Graduate Faculty
Dr. Jennifer Bebergal
bebergal@fau.edu
Associate Dean for Retention and Academic Support
Center for Learning and Student Success
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Katie Burke
kburke19@fau.edu
Assistant Vice President of Alumni and Community Engagement
Florida Atlantic University, Florida
Dr. Larry Faerman
lfaerman@fau.edu
Vice President Student Affairs & Enrollment Management
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Angela Garcia Falconetti
agarciafalconetti@polk.edu
Affiliate Visiting Professor, Higher Education Leadership
President
Polk State College (FL)
Daniel A. Jones
Djones89@fau.edu
Vice President & General Counsel
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Stacy A. Volnick
SVolnick@Fau.Edu
Interim President
Affiliate Clinical Professor, EDLRM-COE
Florida Atlantic University