Role at the Center:

Jennifer Keup is the Director of The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. In this role she oversees all operational and strategic aspects of the National Resource Center including long range planning; supervision of program development and implementation; policy, personnel, and budget management; and serving as a liaison and representative of the NRC to the larger higher education community. In this capacity, she leads a team of professionals who coordinate the Center’s conferences, editorial projects, research and assessment, and public relations and resource development.

Before joining the staff of the National Resource Center, Jennifer served as the Director of the Student Affairs Information and Research Office (SAIRO) at UCLA and was the Director of Follow-Up Surveys at the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). She also was an instructor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA where she taught courses on student development, education research, scholarly writing, and assessment. She has also served as an invited faculty member for the Institute on First-Year Seminar Leadership and Institute on First-Year Assessment, sponsored by the National Resource Center, as well as the CIRP Summer Workshop sponsored by the Higher Education Research Institute.

Jennifer’s research interests focus on students’ personal and academic development during the transition from high school to college; the influence of campus programming on adjustment to college; student development; assessment; and issues of institutional impact, responsiveness, and transformation in higher education. Her research agenda has yielded several presentations and scholarly publications; terms on the editorial boards of The Journal of College Student Development and the Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, and The Journal of Learning Communities Research a leadership position with the ACPA Commission for Admission, Orientation, and First Year Experience.

January 2008 Press Release
July 2008 E-Source Article
August 2008 Essay Article

Jennifer Keup CV

Recent Publications:

• Keup, J.R. (2008). New Challenges in Working with Traditional-Aged College Students. In B.O. Barefoot (Ed.) New Directions in Higher Education. The First Year and Beyond: Rethinking the Challenge of Collegiate Transition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  
  
• Harper, C.E., Keup, J.R., & Brewer, B. (2007). Using Thirty Years of Institutional Data to Discover Critical Trends among Freshmen. Journal of College Orientation and Transition, 15(1), pp. 43-61.
  
  
• Koch, A.J., Foote, S.M., Hinkle, S.E., Keup, J.R., & Pistilli, M.D (2007). The First-Year Experience in American Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography (4th Edition) (Monograph No. 3). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. & Kinzie, J.I. (2007). A National Portrait of First-Year Students. In M.S. Hunter, B. McCalla-Wriggins & E.R. White (Eds.), Academic Advising: New Insights for Teaching and Learning (Monograph No. 46 [National Resource Center]; Monograph No. 14 [National Academic Advising Association]; pp. 19-38). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. (2006). Promoting New Student Success: Assessing Academic Development and Achievement Among First-Year Students. In F.S. Laanan (Ed.) New Directions in Student Services. Understanding Students in Transition: Trends and Issues. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. (2005-2006). The Impact of Curricular Interventions on Intended Second Year Re- Enrollment. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, and Practice, 7(1-2), 61-89.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. & Barefoot, B.O. (2005). Learning How to Be a Successful Student: Exploring the Impact of First-Year Seminars on Student Outcomes. Journal of The First- Year Experience & Students in Transition, 17(1), 11-47.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. & Stolzenberg, E.B, (2004). The 2003 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey: Exploring the Academic and Personal Experiences of First-Year Students (Monograph No. 40). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. (2004). The Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey and Your First College Year: Using Longitudinal Data to Assess the First Year of College. Assessment Update, 16 (2).
  

Select Conference Presentations:

• Keup, J.R. & Zapatka, J. Predicting the Characteristics of Engaged Alumni. General session presented at the ACPA, College Student Educators International Annual Convention. Washington, DC; March, 2009.
  
  
• Keup, J.R., Foote, S.M., Hinkle, S.E., & Pistilli, M.D. New Directions for the First-Year Experience in American Higher Education. General session presented at the ACPA, College Student Educators International Annual Convention. Washington, DC; March, 2009.
  
  
• Harper, C.E. & Keup, J.R. The Transfer Student Experience by Gender, Race, and Participation in a Transfer Assistance Program. Poster presentation at the 33rd Annual Conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Jacksonville, FL; November 2008.
  
  
• Keup, J.R., Hersh, S., Hinkle, S.E., & Siegel, M.J. Admissions, Orientation, and the First-Year Experience: Weaving Together Functional Areas. Roundtable presented at the ACPA, College Student Educators International Annual Convention. Atlanta, GA; March, 2008.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. & Rease-Miles, L. Connecting the Dots: Creating an Integrated First-Year Experience at a Large University. Roundtable presented at the 27th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience. San Francisco, CA; February, 2008.
  
  
• Sax, L.J., Harper, C.E., Keup, J.R., Lombardi, R., & Merriman, L., Wolf, D. Parents of Today’s College Students: Hovering too Close to the Ground? Symposium presented at the 32nd Annual Conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Louisville, KY; November, 2007.
  
  
• Stripe, J., Keup, J.R., McKinney, K. Understanding and Supporting the Transfer Transition. General session at the ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting. Orlando, FL; April, 2007.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. Fact or Fiction: How Do Common Student Stereotypes Compare to the National Data on the First-Year Experience? Concurrent Session at the 26th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience. Dallas, TX; February, 2007.
  
  
• Keup, J.K. Student Expectations About College: Is the Freshman Myth Alive and Well? Research paper at the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Conference, Philadelphia, PA; November, 2005.
  
  
• Keup, J.R. Academic Support Services and Success Among First-Year Students. General session at the American College Personal Association (ACPA) Annual Convention. Nashville, TN; April, 2005.