Dr. Nicole M. West

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Education

• PhD, Higher Education Administration, University of South Florida
• MEd, College Student Affairs, University of South Florida
• BA, Psychology, University of South Florida

Teaching

• SAE 729 Foundations of Research
• SAE 766 Research Methods & Data Analysis
• SAE 767 Evaluation and Assessment
• SAE 749 Student Outcomes
• SFR 781 Applied Educational Research
• SFR 750 Philosophies of Education

Professional experience

Selected Publications

• West, N. M., Shavers, M. C., Smith, M. D., *Namodi, J. A., Gordon, N. A., & Jahnke, T. S. (in press). Black women as coxswains: Allyship outcomes for Black and White women in a PARC project developed by Black women in higher education. The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
• West, N. M., & Porter, C. J. (Eds.). (2023). The state of Black women in higher education: A critical perspective 20 years later, 182. New Directions for Student Services, Wiley.
• West, N. M. (2023). Black women faculty and administrators leveraging Black feminist consciousness to enhance the experiences of postsecondary college students. New Directions for Student Services, 182, 105-120. doi:10.1002/ss.20471
• McCloud, L., & West, N. M. (2023). For all my sisters: The impact of cisheteronormativity on scholarship about the gendered and sexualized experiences of Black college women. New Directions for Student Services, 182, 69-80. doi:10.1002/ss.20468
• West, N. M., & Porter, C. J. (2023). The state of Black women in higher education: A critical perspective 20 years later. New Directions for Student Services, 182, 9-13. doi:10.1002/ss.20463
• West, N. M. (2023). Defining the contours of a participatory action research counterspace developed by, for, and about Black women in higher education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 37(5), 1542–1565. doi:10.1080/09518398.2023.2181449
• Payne, A. N., & West, N. M. (2022). The (re)construction of Black womanhood among Black college women at PWIs: A hip hop feminism model of multiple identities. Journal of College Student Development, 63(2), 168-184. doi:10.1353/csd.2022.0013
• West, N. M., Payne, A. N., Smith, M. D., *Alston, A. D., Bonds, N. T., *Akalugwu, W. N. (2022). A collaborative autoethnography of six Black women walking tightropes in higher education. Negro Educational Review, 72(1-4), 131-163.
• West, N. M. (2022). Embodying Black feminist epistemology to make green grass grow: The transition from administrator to academic for a Black woman in student affairs. The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 15(5), 630–642. doi:10.1037/dhe0000375

Research and professional interests

• Enhancing the experiences of Black women enrolled and employed in higher education

Awards and honors

• NASPA Faculty Council & Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021
• NASPA’s Ruth Strang Research Award, 2018

Additional resources

• Curriculum Vitae