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Adrienne Provost

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction

Adrienne Provost is a distinguished educator and researcher with a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Florida. She spent over a decade at Santa Fe College as a grant administrator and multi-program director. Currently, she serves as Assistant Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, where she continues to promote access and transfer opportunities for students nationwide. Nationally recognized for her innovative programming, Dr. Provost has received numerous awards, including the 2024 Terry O’Banion Legacy Award and the 2022 Santa Fe College Advocacy Leadership Award. Her career has significantly increased educational pathways for low-income, first-generation students and her work has been instrumental in securing federal grants to support these initiatives. Dr. Provost’s academic interests include the history of higher education, community colleges, humanistic education, general education, and higher education policy and legislation. Her current research focuses on the ideological influences behind the founding mission of community colleges in the U.S. and the resulting political, social, and economic tensions during the 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

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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