About Faculty Success

CETL Faculty Success is a team of tenured faculty coaches who have completed accredited International Coaching Federation training. We use research-based educational and organizational development practices to support faculty in their pursuit of career success and recognition at Kennesaw State University.

Support Areas

Career Pathways and Progression
Community Building
Early Career Success
Promotion, Tenure, and Review
Scholarship Productivity
Awards and Funding

Services

Faculty Success Coaching
New Faculty Orientation
Tenured Faculty Enhancement Program
USG and KSU Faculty Award Coordination
Workshops, Webinars, and Book Chats
Mutual Mentoring and Writing Accountability Groups

Our Team

Name

Position

Jennifer Purcell
Jennifer Purcell Interim Faculty Success Director and Coach, and Associate Professor of Political Science

Position:
Interim Faculty Success Director and Coach, and Associate Professor of Political Science

Phone: (470) 578-2863
Email: jpurce10@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5071

Dr. Purcell serves as the Interim Director for Faculty Success and leads the CETL-Faculty Success (CFS) team, helps direct New Faculty Orientation, the Faculty Success Coaching program, and the Mutual Mentoring Group program. She also helps develop and facilitate custom workshops at the request of chairs and deans and serves as the lead mentor for Parents in Academia MMG. Purcell is an associate professor in the School of Government and International Affairs where she teaches in the Master of Public Administration and Political Science programs.

Dr. Purcell is a leadership scholar whose research explores leadership capacity building and boundary spanning in public organizations. Her scholarship has earned university and national recognition, including the 2020 Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity Award from the University College, the 2018 KSU Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award, the 2016 AASCU John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement, the 2016 Kiesler Service Award, and the 2015 University College Faculty Development Award. In 2023, Purcell was awarded KSU Tenured Faculty Enhancement Leave.

Dr. Purcell is active in numerous leadership roles nationally and at KSU. She is the GA State Chair for the ACE Women's Network, an Executive Council Member for the Georgia Association for Women in High Education, Co-Chair of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium's Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop, and serves on the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship Editorial Board. Previously, Purcell served as the 2018-2019 KSU Faculty Senate President, the inaugural Graduate Faculty Fellow, and Interim Graduate Program Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Ethics.
Chinasa Elue
Chinasa Elue CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Career Pathways and Progression and Associate Professor of Education Leadership

Position:
CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Career Pathways and Progression and Associate Professor of Education Leadership

Phone: (470) 578-2493
Email: celue@kennesaw.edu
Location: BEB 462

As a CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Career Pathways and Progression, Dr. Elue is on a 50% teaching workload reassignment to CETL. She directs the Career Pathways and Progression workshop series, is a success coach for faculty, and facilitates the Flourishing After Tenure and BIPOC Mutual Mentoring Groups.

In addition to her role at CETL, Dr. Elue is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership. Dr. Elue teaches graduate level courses in the Department of Educational Leadership and in the newly launched Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Administration. Her research focuses on issues of educational access and equity for marginalized populations across the P-20 continuum.
Letizia Guglielmo
Letizia Guglielmo CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Scholarship Productivity, Lead Coach, and Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies

Position:
CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Scholarship Productivity, Lead Coach, and Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies

Phone: (470) 578-6764
Email: lgugliel@kennesaw.edu
Location: EB 106

As the CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Scholarship Productivity, Dr. Guglielmo is on a 50% teaching workload reassignment to CETL. She directs the Scholarship Productivity workshop series, is the Lead Coach for faculty success, and facilitates the Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks and Write Here Write Now writing accountability groups.

In addition to her CETL fellowship, Dr. Guglielmo is a Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, past Coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies Program, and former Interim Chair of English. She teaches courses in professional writing and gender studies. Her research and writing focus on feminist rhetoric and pedagogy, gender and pop culture, digital media in the writing classroom, collaboration, and professional development for students, faculty, and department chairs.
Carmen Skaggs
Carmen Skaggs CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Early Career Success and Professor of English

Position:
CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Early Career Success and Professor of English

Phone: (470) 578-6793
Email: cskaggs4@kennesaw.edu
Location: KH 4443

As a CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Early Career Success, Dr. Skaggs is on a 50% teaching workload reassignment to CETL. She directs the Early Career Success workshop series, serves as a success coach for faculty, and facilitates the mutual mentoring groups for Early Career Tenure Track Faculty, Chairs and Directors, and Assistant/Associate Deans.

In addition to her CETL Fellowship, Dr. Skaggs is Professor of English in the Department of English. From 2015-2021, she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to joining KSU in 2015, Dr. Skaggs was Chair of the Department of English at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Her research examines the literary work as a site for negotiating the tension between the social and cultural.

Affiliated Lead Mentors

Name

Position

Theresa Alviar
Theresa Alviar Global Affairs Division Faculty Fellow for International Support and Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction

Position:
Global Affairs Division Faculty Fellow for International Support and Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction

Phone: (470) 578-5066
Email: talviar@kennesaw.edu
Location: KH 3209

Dr. Alviar serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Global Faculty Mutual Mentoring Group.
Animesh Aditya
Animesh Aditya Senior Lecturer of Medicinal and Organic Chemistry

Position:
Senior Lecturer of Medicinal and Organic Chemistry

Phone: (470) 578-2046
Email: aaditya@kennesaw.edu
Location: SC 432

Dr. Aditya serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Early Career Lecturers Mutual Mentoring Group.
Corinne McNamara
Corinne McNamara Chair, Department of Psychological Science

Position:
Chair, Department of Psychological Science

Phone: (470) 578-6225
Email: cmcnama4@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4034

Dr. McNamara serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Chairs and Directors Mutual Mentoring Group.
Thierry Leger
Thierry Leger RCHSS Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Excellence

Position:
RCHSS Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Excellence

Phone: (470) 578-6366
Email: tleger@kennesaw.edu
Location: PS 139

Dr. Leger serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Assistant and Associate Deans Mutual Mentoring Group.
Tanja Link
Tanja Link Assistant Chair, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology

Position:
Assistant Chair, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-2292
Email: tlink1@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4054

Dr. Link serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Assistant and Associate Chairs Mutual Mentoring Group.
Darlene Rodriguez- Schaefer
Darlene Rodriguez- Schaefer Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Services

Position:
Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Services

Phone: (470) 578-3669
Email: drodri30@kennesaw.edu
Location: HS 3313

Ms. Rodriguez-Schaefer serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Parents in Academia Mutual Mentoring Group.
Chinasa Elue
Chinasa Elue CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Career Pathways and Progression and Associate Professor of Education Leadership

Position:
CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Career Pathways and Progression and Associate Professor of Education Leadership

Phone: (470) 578-2493
Email: celue@kennesaw.edu
Location: BEB 462

Dr. Elue serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the BIPOC and FlourishingAfter Tenure Mutual Mentoring Group.
Carmen Skaggs
Carmen Skaggs CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Early Career Success and Professor of English

Position:
CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Early Career Success and Professor of English

Phone: (470) 578-6793
Email: cskaggs4@kennesaw.edu
Location: KH 4443

Dr. Skaggs serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the EarlyCareer Tenure Track Faculty Mutual Mentoring Group.
Jennifer Purcell
Jennifer Purcell Interim Faculty Success Director and Coach, and Associate Professor of Political Science

Position:
Interim Faculty Success Director and Coach, and Associate Professor of Political Science

Phone: (470) 578-2863
Email: jpurce10@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5071

Dr. Purcell serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Parents in Academia Mutual Mentoring Group.
Michele DiPietro
Michele DiPietro Executive Director for Faculty Development, Recognition and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of Mathematics

Position:
Executive Director for Faculty Development, Recognition and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of Mathematics

Phone: (470) 578-6410
Email: mdipietr@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3211 - 113

Dr. DiPietro serves as the Faculty Success Lead Mentor for the Post Docs Mutual Mentoring Group.
Letizia Guglielmo
Letizia Guglielmo CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Scholarship Productivity, Lead Coach, and Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies

Position:
CETL Faculty Success Fellow for Scholarship Productivity, Lead Coach, and Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies

Phone: (470) 578-6764
Email: lgugliel@kennesaw.edu
Location: EB 106

Dr. Guglielmo serves as the Faculty Sucess Lead Mentor forthe Write Here, Write Now Mutual Mentoring Group.