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Adrienne Provost

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction

Adrienne Provost holds a B.S. in Education, an M.A. in English, and a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Florida. Nationally recognized for her work in innovative programming, Dr. Provost received the 2024 Terry O'Banion Legacy Award, the 2022 Santa Fe College Advocacy Leadership Award, the 2020 Association of Florida Colleges Student Development Exemplary Practice Award, the 2020 Workforce Adult and Continuing Education Commission Exemplary Practice Award, the 2019 Santa Fe College Innovation Award, and the 2018 Robert B. Primack Memorial Foundations of Education Endowment. She graduated from the Association of Florida Colleges Certified College Professional program and the Association of Florida Colleges Next Level Leadership inaugural class. Her passion for expanding higher education access and equity are the cornerstones of her professional career. Dr. Provost's academic interests include the history of higher education, community colleges, humanistic education, general education, and higher education policy & legislation. Her current research concerns the ideological influences undergirding community college's founding mission and purpose in the United States and the resulting political, social, and economic tensions that arose during a national shift toward neoliberalism.

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Research Interests

Community Colleges, Humanistic Education, Discourse Tracing, Higher Education, Teaching and Learning, and Discourse-Historical Analysis

Publications

  • Provost, A. L. (2024). Community College Social Media Public Scholars: Reframing the Narrative from the Inside Out. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2024.2428270

  • Provost, A. (2024). Social media public scholars: Reframing the narrative from the inside out. League for Innovation in the Community College.

  • Traum, M. J., Jones, T. J., Doher, J. A., K. R. Gurley, J. A. M. W., Provost, A. L., Mella-Alczazr, A. A. C., & Angulo, L. (March 10-12 2024). Virtual exchange embedded in a STEM summer camp improved American high school students’ awareness of Filipino Culture. Proceedings of the ASEE Southeastern Section Conference, 10–12.

  • Provost, A. (2023). Digging in the wrong place: Tracing artifacts of humanism in the community college [Doctoral dissertation, University of Florida].

  • Provost, A. (2023). Cooling out vs. warming up: History of the debate. NACADA Review, 4(1), 16–26.

  • Traum, M., Provost, A., Doher, J. (2022). STEMTank – Implementing online an engineering summer camp for underprivileged high school students in response to COVID-19. Opportunity Matters, 4, 86–101.

  • Provost, A. L., Traum, M. (in press). Valuing failure: Successful experiential STEM learning projects boost self-confidence while failure improves grit. Mindset Pathways to STEM Success – A Compilation of Tools and Strategies for Higher Education to Boost Learning in STEM.

  • Provost, A. L., Kohnen, A. M. (2022). “Why so many words?” Students’ perspectives on college access and success terminology. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 1–14.

  • Provost, A. L., Kohnen, A.M. (2022) A full spectrum of interpretation: A discourse-historical analysis of one community college’s mission statement, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 46:5, 318-334.

Awards and Recognition

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Interactive Timeline

This timeline traces overlapping micro-, meso-, and macro- discursive themes related to community colleges and higher education across the economic, political, and social landscape of the mid-20th century. The overview details the shift from humanistic to neoliberal ideology that occurred in the late 1970s. 

Courses

IDS 4930 Transfer Success Seminar
College of Liberal Arts  & Sciences

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