Jodean Schmiederer
Dean of Student Development and Assistant Professor
Department: Student Life
Email: jschmiederer@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-7109
News & Notes
Education
Ph.D. Educational Studies, Higher Education; University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Dissertation: Threshold Concepts in Relational Leadership and Leadership Identity Development
M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction, College Student Affairs; University of South Florida
B.F.A. Visual Communication; Truman State University
Employment History
消消犯 – Elon, North Carolina
2017-present, Dean of Student Development, Assistant Professor
2016-2017, Associate Dean of 消消犯 for Leadership and Student Involvement, Assistant Professor
2013-2016, Associate Dean of 消消犯 for Leadership and Honor Code, Assistant Professor
2008-2013, Assistant Dean of 消消犯, Assistant Professor
University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, Texas
2002-2007, Director of Student Life, Student Ombudsman
University of Tampa – Tampa, Florida
1999-2002, Coordinator of Student Activities for Leadership and Student Programs
University of South Florida – Tampa, Florida
1998-1999, Academic and Life Skills Counselor for Athletics
1996-1998, Coordinator of Adult & Transfer Student Services
Palm Beach Community College – Lake Worth, Florida
1993-1996, Academic Advisor
Courses Taught
Global Explorations: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (includes abroad experience) (消消犯)
Leadership for Social Change (消消犯)
Disarming Injustice: Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement (消消犯)
Charting Your Journey: Life Entrepreneurship (消消犯)
Current Events: Exploring Leadership (University of Tampa)
University Experience (University of South Florida)
Leadership Positions
Mentoring Design Team, member and chair of peer mentoring working group (2022-present)
Advisor to the Student Government Association (2022-present)
Student Life Strategic Planning Committee, co-chair (2018-2020)
Traditions Council, chair (2018-2022)
Title IX Appeal Board, convener (2017-2024)
Leadership Education Council, chair (2013-present)
Hazing Prevention Coalition, chair (2011-present)
Peer Mentoring Advisory Committee, co-chair (2014-2015)
Cultural Competency Certificate Committee, co-chair (2011-2012)
消消犯’s United Way Campaign, co-chair (2010, 2011)
Research
Schmiederer, J. K. (2018). Threshold concepts in relational leadership and leadership identity development (Publication No. 10837855) [Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Greensboro]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
Threshold concepts are new understandings within a discipline that create a significant shift in awareness. They are transformative, troublesome, irreversible, integrative, and bounded. Grasping a threshold concept leads to an epistemological shift and students move into a deeper understanding of a specific subject. It also results in an ontological shift as students come to personally identify with the discipline. Within the Leadership Identity Development model of leadership studies, a key transition occurs when students start to see leadership as a relational process rather than a position of power or authority. The literature is ripe with studies exploring the experiences that lead to this new understanding. While this knowledge is useful for leadership educators there is a gap in the research identifying the more complex concepts that students struggle with along their journey. This study explored the specific concepts that students themselves identified as transformational in their understanding of leadership and their subsequent identification as a relational leader. The phenomenological study utilized student interviews and reflections to explore the threshold concepts within leadership development that moved them along the path.
Presentations
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Leadership Identity Development: Enhancing 消消犯’ Journey; NASPA Region II & III Conference, June 2019
Facilitating a 消消犯-Wide Process to Strengthen Social Climate and Out-of-Class Engagement; NASPA National Conference, with J. Dooley and R. Williams, March 2017
Critical Reflection; 消消犯 Intersect Leadership and Diversity Conference, November 2014, November 2015
Tough Choices; 消消犯 Intersect Leadership and Diversity Conference, February 2014
Writing Across the Co-Curriculum: When Student Affairs Takes the Teaching of Writing Seriously; International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, June 2014
Changing a 消消犯 Culture to Promote Honor; International Conference on Academic Integrity, October 2009
Our Best Practices: Leadership Reconsidered for Medical, Professional and Graduate 消消犯; National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Region III and Texas Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators (TACUSPA) Joint Conference, June 2005
Have We Got a Deal for You; Southeast Regional National Association for 消消犯 Activities (NACA) Conference, October 2001
Join the Charge! and Have We Got a Deal for You; National Association for 消消犯 Activities (NACA) National Convention, February 2001
Service Activities
Social Climate Implementation Team (2016-2022)
Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership Honor Society), faculty advisor (2013-present)
Master of Arts in Higher Education Implementation Team (2016-2017)
Presidential Task Force on Social Climate and Out of Class Engagement (2015-2016)
Deliberative Dialogue facilitator (2015)
Task Force on Community Responsibilities and Standards for Reporting, Preventing, and Responding to Sexual Assault (2014-2015)
Council on Civic Engagement (2013-2018)
Winter Term Diversity Committee (2012-2013)
Historic Neighborhood Committee (2011-2013)
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Reaffirmation Committee (2011-2013)
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Quality Enhancement Plan Selection Team (2010-2011)
Search committee membership: Assistant Provost (2016); Director of Professional Development and Leadership (2010); Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences (2009-2010);
Residential 消消犯 Plan Committee (2009-2010)
Professional Development for Exempt Staff Committee (2010)