Marianne Smith
Senior Faculty – Education
B.A. Education, Prescott College
M.A. Education Leadership, Chapman University
Ph.D. Institutional Leadership and Policy, University of California, Riverside
Principal Research Interests
- Student retention and completion in higher education with a particular focus on STEM students
- STEM mentoring
- Community colleges
- Experiential learning and its impact on teaching and learning
- STEM student identity formation
- First-generation and underrepresented students in higher education
Representative Presentations and Publications
- Sobron, P., & Smith, M. (2020). InVADER: A deep sea mission to explore oceans on earth and beyond. Network for Life Detection (NfoLD).
- Smith, M., & Barge, L.M. (2019). Engaging Diverse Community College Students in the Geosciences: Growing a Future Workforce. 2019 AbSciCon Annual Meeting (Invited), Abstract #478440.
- Sloan, V., Barge L.M., Smith, M. (2017) Partnering for Diversity: A year-round experiential learning project to engage community college students in the geosciences. January 2017, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Abstract #313748.
- V. Sloan, L.M. Barge, M. Smith. (2017) Engaging diverse community college students in the geosciences through a year-round career mentoring and research workforce program. 2017 AGU Fall meeting, Abstract ED34A-04.
- Smith, M. (2015). Mentoring Community College Students in a Geoscience REU. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract ID: 81836
- Smith, M. & Romero, L. (2014). Undergraduate Research for Latino Community College STEM Students. 2014 AHSIE Annual Conference, Session 75.
- Smith, M., Kim, C., & Osborn, J., (2014) Battling the GPA Bias: Selecting NSF-REU Participants for Transformative Research Experiences. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, #ED44A-03.
- Kim, C., Osborn, J., Smith, M. (2014). Serving Community College Students: Student Preparation, Development and Growth through the REU Experience. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, #ED31A-3427.