Rozana Carducci
Associate Professor of Education and Graduate Director of the Master of Higher Education
Department: Education and Wellness
Email: rcarducci@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-6922
Professional Expertise
Brief Biography
Rozana’s research and teaching interests include higher education leadership, student affairs administration, qualitative methodology and the politics of inquiry. She currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Higher Education and The Review of Higher Education and is an active member of NASPA Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education, the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Educational Research Association. As a student affairs professional, Rozana worked in the pool areas of undergraduate leadership development and institutional research. She is co-author of Higher Education Leadership: Challenging Tradition and Forging Possibilities (2024, Johns Hopkins University Press) and co-editor of Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility and Safety (2019, Routledge) and Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research (2014, Peter Lang Publishers).
News & Notes
Education
PhD: UCLA, Higher Education and Organizational Change
MS: Miami University, College Student Personnel
BA: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Political Science & International Studies
Employment History
Prior to Elon, Rozana served as program coordinator for the higher education in student affairs master's program at Salem State University. She has previously held faculty appointments at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Slippery Rock University.
Courses Taught
MHE 6310: Introduction to Higher Education Reserach
MHE 7110: Administration and Governance in Higher Education
MHE 7985/7986: Internship I & II
MHE 7990: Capstone
Publications
Selected Publications
Carducci, R., Harper, J., Kezar, A. J. (2024). Higher education leadership: Challenging tradition and forging possibilities. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Carducci, R., & Pasque, P. A. (2024). Critical advocacy inquiry. In R. McMillian & P. A. Pasque A. (Eds.). Advancing qualitative inquiry toward methodological inclusion (pp. 26-48). Routledge.
Lake, D., Marshall, S., Carducci, R., & Thurnes, T. (2022). The Power and Place Collaborative: Participatory strategies for scaling. Contexts: The Systemic Design Journal, 1.
Baxter Magolda, M. B., Magolda P. M., & Carducci, R. (Eds.). (2019). Dialogues about equity, civility, and safety: Contested issues in student affairs. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Carducci, R. (2017). Transforming higher education institutions through critical qualitative leadership inquiry. In Pasque, P. A. and Lechuga, V. M. (Eds.), Qualitative inquiry in higher education organization and policy research. New York, NY: Routledge.
Pasque, P. A. & Carducci, R. (2015). Critical advocacy perspectives on organization in higher education. In M. B. Paulson (Ed.). Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. 29(30), 275-333.
Carducci, R., & Jaramillo, D. L., (2014). Cultivating self-authorship in job one. In P. M. Magolda & J. E. Carnaghi (Eds.). Job one: Experiences of new professionals in student affairs (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Brown, R. N., Carducci, R., Kuby, Carducci, R., Kuby, C. R. (Eds.). (2014). Disrupting qualitative inquiry: Possibilities and tensions in educational research. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Carducci, R., Pasque, P. A., Kuntz, A. M., Contreras-McGavin, M. (2013). Disrupting facades of clarity in the teaching and learning of qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Education, 2(1), 1-26.
Pasque, P. A., Carducci, R., Gildersleeve, R. E., & Kuntz, A. K. (2012). Qualitative inquiry for equity in higher education: Methodological innovations, implications, and interventions. ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 37 (6). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Carducci, R. (2011). How do professionals navigate situations when their professional beliefs clash with their supervisors’ or organizations’ beliefs? Response essay. In P.M. Magolda & M. B. Baxter Magolda (Eds.), Contested issues in student affairs: Diverse perspectives and respectful dialogue. Herndon, VA: Stylus.
Gildersleeve, R. E., Kuntz, A. M., Pasque, P. A., & Carducci, R. (2010). The role of critical inquiry in (re)constructing the public agenda for higher education: Confronting the conservative modernization of the academy. Review of Higher Education, 34(1), 85-121.
Presentations
Selected:
Carducci, R. (2024, November 4). Teaching and learning design thinking: Infusing design thinking in student affairs graduate programs. Southern Association of College Student Affairs Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC.
Carducci, R., Graham, M., & Lucas, I. (2024, March 12). Cultivating a better future: Design thinking in student affairs. NASPA Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
Carducci, R. (2024, March 11). What’s it like to work in a higher education adjacent organization? NASPA Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
Carducci, R., Lollis, A., Lucas, I., Vitale, M., Radford, K. (November 2023). Cultivating a better future: Design thinking in student affairs. Southern Association of College Student Affairs Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Carducci, R., & Ardoin, S. (2022, November 6). It’s not a one trick pony: Career flexibility with a master’s in higher education and student affairs. Southern Association of College Student Affairs Annual Conference, Birmingham, AL.
Lake, D., Marshall, S. Carducci, R., Gozik, N., & Thurnes, T. (October 2023). Designing community-university partnerships for systems change: The power of place, stories, and relationships. Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium, Online.
Carducci, R. (2019, May). Critical whiteness studies within U.S. higher education research. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.
Carducci, R., Johnson, R. B., VanHecke, J. (2019, March). Contested issues in troubled times: Student affairs dialogues across difference. Presentation at the ACPA Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Carducci Carducci, R. (2017, May). Higher education leadership research: The perils and promise of qualitative inquiry. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.
Carducci, R. & Marine, S. (2016, November). Understanding and utilizing the ACPA/NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators. Presentation at the NASPA Region I Annual Conference, Burlington, VT.
Ardoin, S., Carducci, R., & Marine, S. (2016, November). Positioning yourself for the practitioner to professor pipeline. Presentation at the NASPA Region I Annual Conference, Burlington, VT.
Carducci, R. (2016, April). Cultivating productive mentoring relationships: What’s your role as a mentee? Invited workshop for the New Hampshire Women in Higher Education Spring Conference, Manchester, NH.
Carducci, R., Magolda, P., Miller, C., Jaramillo, D. L. (2013, November). Preparing the next generation of student affairs professionals for job one. Paper accepted for presentation at annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, St. Louis, MO.
Carducci, R., & Nicolazzo, Z. (2012, November). Creating counterpublics in support of critical qualitative inquiry within higher education. Symposium accepted for presentation at annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV.
Professional Activities
Editorial Board, Journal of Higher Education, May 2015 – Present
Editorial Board, Review of Higher Education, May 2019 – Present
National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, External Reviewer, Paul P. Fidler Research Grant, 2011–2019
Service Activities
Member, Academic Council, Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, Fall 2024 – Present
Member, Graduate Council, 2018 - Present
Member, Graduate Student Experience Working Group, Fall 2024 - Present
Member, Faculty Research and Development Committee, 2022 - 2024 (Chair 2023-2024)
Curricular Catalyst, Center for Design Thinking, 2022-2024
Faculty Advisor, Alpha Phi Omega, 2021 - Present