Department Chair, Educational Leadership & Higher Education
Professor
Campion Hall Room 227
Telephone: 617-552-4797
Email: heather.rowan-kenyon.1@bc.edu
ORCID
Assessment in Student Affairs
Seminar in Research in Higher Education
Executive Doctoral Seminar II
Doctoral Proseminar in Ed.D. in Higher Education
College access and student success, persistence in college for low-income students.
Heather Rowan-Kenyon is a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Dr. Rowan-Kenyon’s research focuses on college student access, learning, and success.
Her book with Ana Martínez Alemán and Mandy Savitz-Romer, Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First-Generation College Students (Rutgers University Press, 2018) was awarded the 2018 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Outstanding Book Award. Rowan-Kenyon publishes in the top journals in her field including the Journal of Higher Education; the Review of Higher Education; Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research; and the Journal of College Student Development. She was an associate editor of the Review of Higher Education and serves on editorial boards for several journals, including the Journal of Higher Education. She is the chair of the ASHE Publications Committee.
Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Carroll, S.*, Nicola, T.P.*, & Savitz-Romer, M. (2022). School Counselors and College Counseling During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Review of Higher Education46(2), 181-208..
Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Martínez Alemán, A. M, & Savitz-Romer, M. (2018). Technology and engagement: Making technology work for first generation college students. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. - Recipient of the ASHE 2018 Outstanding Book Award
Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., & Martínez-Alemán, A.M. with Gin, K.* Blakeley, B.*, Gismondi, A., Lewis, J.*, McCready, A.*, & Zepp, D.*, Knight, S.* (2016). Social Media in higher education. ASHE Higher Education Report: Volume 42, Number 5. San Francisco: John Wiley.
Savitz-Romer, M., Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Nicola, T.*, & Carroll, S.* (2023). The policy is that there is no policy: A landscape analysis of state-level school counseling policy.Educational Policy..
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Alexander, E.*, Savitz-Romer, M., Nicola, T.*, Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., & Carroll, S.* (2022). “We are the heartbeat of the school”: How school counselors supported student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professional School Counseling, 26(1b) 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X221105557
Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., McCready, A.M., Martínez Alemán, A.M., & Barone, N.* (2021). Does experiencing racialized aggressions on social media influence perceptions about the campus racial climate? Research in Higher Education. 10.1007/s11162-021-09662-8
Martínez Alemán, A.M, Barone, N.*, Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., & McCready, A. (2021). Cultural mistrust, college students of color, and social media. Sage Open, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211056625
Savitz-Romer, M., Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Nicola, T.*, Alexander, E.*, Carroll, S.* (2021). When the kids are not alright: School counseling in the time of COVID-19. AERA Open, 7(1), 1-16. https:/doi.org/10.1177/23328584211033600
McCready, A.M., Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Martínez Alemán, A.M., & Barone, N.* (2021). Students of color, mental health, and racialized aggressions on social media. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 58(2), 179-195. DOI: 10.1080/19496591.2020.1853555
Rowan-Kenyon, H. T., McCready, A. M., Martínez Alemán, A. M., & Barone, N. (2021). Measuring racist aggressions on social media and the effects on U.S. college students of color: An instrument validation. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 54(3), 156-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2020.1827437
Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Knight, S.*, McCready, A.* (2018). Setting the stage: Pre-trip preparation for short-term immersion programs. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 56(1), 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2018.1506792
Rowan-Kenyon, H.T., Savitz-Romer, M., Ott, M.W.*, Swan, A., and Liu, P.* (2017). Finding conceptual coherence: Trends and alignment in the scholarship on noncognitive skills and their role in college success and career readiness. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 32, 141-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48983-4_4