Research

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles:

Purcell, J. W. & Smith, D. N. (2023). Disciplinary Expertise and Faculty Credentialing in Leadership Studies: Advancing a Necessary Conversation. (Feature Article). Journal of Leadership Studies, 17(2), Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10/1002/jls.21851

Purcell, J. W., Rodriguez, D. X., & Ring, K. A.* (2022). The Covid Shift: Working women’s punctuated equilibrium. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 43(8), 1217-1233. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-01-2022-0044

Kniffin, L. E., Vanschyndel, T. L., Purcell, J. W., and Muse, S. (2021). Next generation practitioner-scholars navigating community engagement professional development: A collaborative autoethnography. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education. 
 
Purcell, J. W. Pearl, A., and Van Schyndel, T. (2021). Boundary spanning leadership among community-engaged faculty: An exploratory study of faculty participating in higher education community engagement. Engaged Scholar Journal. 
 
Kuban, A. J., Purcell, J. W., and Jones, B. (2020). Lessons from reflective practice in higher education: Learning from failure and missteps in community-engaged scholarship. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 

Van Schyndel, T. L., Pearl, A. J., and Purcell, J. W. (2019). Extending Our Conceptualization of Boundary Spanning Leadership for Community Engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.

Hartlep, N. D., Lake, D., Purcell, J. W., Bush, A., Perry, L. G., Fleck, B., Kliewer, B. W., Janke, E. M., Markham, P., Orphan, C. M., and Saltmarsh, J. (2019). Toward an innovative civic engagement pedagogy. eJournal of Public Affairs, 8(1).

Lyons, L. M., Buddie, A. M., and Purcell, J. W. (2018). Integrated student leadership development: A qualitative case study on building the intercultural competence of first-year honors students. Journal of Leadership Education.

GuramatunhuCooper, N. M., Purcell, J. W., Nquyen Voges, S., Worthy, R., Myers, M. (2018). Student Perceptions of Millennial Faculty. Currents in Teaching.

Purcell, J. W., Scott, H. I., and Mixson-Brookshire, D. (2017). Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment through observations. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. 

Purcell, J. W. (2017). Community-engaged pedagogy in the virtual classroom. Journal of Leadership Studies.

Purcell, J. W. (2016). Capacity building for community engagement in community colleges. Journal for Civic Commitment, 25, 1 – 21.  Retrieved from http://ccncce.org/articles/capacity-building-for-community-engagement-in-community-colleges/

Kliewer, B. W., Moretto, K. N., and Purcell, J. W. (2016). Emergent spaces of civic leadership education and development: Understanding the liberal arts and humanities from a perspective of civic and public work. Journal of Leadership Education, 15(2), 114 – 128. doi: 1012806/V15/I2/R2

Purcell, J. W. (2014) The engaged community college: Supporting the institutionalization of engagement through collaborative action inquiry. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 18(3), 105 – 111.

Invited Book Reviews:

Purcell, J. W. and Wells, J. B. (2020). Book Review: Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Vedder, R. K. Teachers College Record, Date Published: July 14, 2020
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 23368

Purcell, J. W. (2016). Book advances theory and evidence-driven design and redesign of community leadership development programs. [Review of the book Community effects of leadership development education: Citizen empowerment for civic engagement by Pigg, K., Gasteyer, S., Martin, G., Apaliya, G., Keatings, K]. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 9(1), 90 – 92

Invited Book Chapters:

Purcell, J. W. (In Press). Leveraging shared leadership to protect students, faculty, and institutions from politically motivated attacks on academic freedom in Academic Freedom in Faculty and Student Research, Emerald Publishing.

Purcell, J. W. Future directions for community engagement in higher education: Advancing scholarship, building leadership capacity, and refining commitments. In Sandmann, L. R., & Jones, D. O. (Eds.). (2019). Building the field of higher education engagement: A 20-year retrospective and prospective. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC.

Refereed Proceedings:

Purcell, J. W., Scott, H. I., and Mixson-Brookshire, D. (2017). Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment through peer observation. Distance Learning Administration, 165-168.

GuramatunhuCooper, N. M., Purcell, J. W., Scott, H. I, Simpson-Wilkey, L., & Mainella, F. (2017). Deconstruction and reconstruction: Driving questions and considerations for leadership education (re)design.  Association of Leadership Educators, 718-721.

Purcell, J. W. & Smith, D. N. (2016). Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment: Online teaching observations in leadership education. Association of Leadership Educators, 725-728.

Refereed Applied Scholarly Products:

Kennesaw State University Quality Enhancement Plan Proposal, Community-Based Learning for Engaged Citizenship and Sustainable Communities, Submitted January 15, 2016, Invited Town Hall Presentation March 8 and 11, 2016. Retrieved from http://qep.kennesaw.edu/proposal/town_hall.php

Kennesaw State University Application for the Carnegie Community Engagement Designation, Submitted April 15, 2014. Retrieved from http://communityengagement.kennesaw.edu/about/carnegie-classification.php

Other Scholarly Products:

Purcell, J. and Keesee, R. (2019). Civic engagement as service-learning program: CAS contextual statement. In Wells, J. (Ed.), CAS professional standards for higher education (10th ed.). Washington, DC: Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education

PRESENTATIONS

Refereed Conference Presentations:

Grayer, M. and Purcell, J. (Accepted). Coaching Skills for Collaborator Effectiveness, Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), Atlanta, Georgia, September 2023, Regional.

Purcell, J. W., Rodriguez, D. X., Doberneck, D. C., and McDonald, J. (Accepted). The Covid Shift: Wellbeing and Sustainable Career Development Among Boundary Spanners, Engagement Scholarship Consortium 23rd Annual Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 4-5, 2023, International.

Purcell, J. W., Hatcher, H., and Jimenez, N. (Accepted). Engaged Learning: Conducting a Program Evaluation for a Community-Engaged Scholar Network, Engagement Scholarship Consortium 23rd Annual Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 4-5, 2023, International.

Purcell, J. W. & Rodriguez, D. X. Rising Together Amid the Covid Shift: Navigating Our Punctuated Equilibrium as Women in Higher Education, GAWHE Annual Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, February 22-24, 2023, Statewide.

Purcell, J. W., Rodriguez, D. X., Doberneck, D. C., and McDonald, J. The Covid Shift: Wellbeing and Sustainable Career Development Among Boundary Spanners, Gulf-South Summit, April12-14, 2023, Regional.

Pandemic-paved pathways for women's leadership advancement in the academy, International Leadership Association Women in Leadership Conference, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, June 2022, International, Accepted but did not present due to presentation modality being changed from virtual to face-to-face during the COVID-19 pandemic.

High-impact faculty success practices that advance student success outcomes, AAC&U Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17-19, 2022, National.

Working girl to wonder woman: Navigating the covid shift as a mother working in higher education, Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education, Affiliate of the American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network, Coastal College of Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia, February 23-25, 2022, Plenary Session, Regional.

Lessons from reflective practice in higher education: Learning from failure in community-engaged leaders, International Leadership Association's 21th Annual Global Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 24-27, 2019, International.

That’s a wrap: Closing campus-community partnerships. Engagement Scholarship Consortium Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 6-9, 2019, International.

Boundary spanners in higher education: An exploration of roles, expectations, and professional development, International Leadership Association's 20th Annual Global Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 24-27, 2018, International.

Embracing one’s FAILURE to go about transforming higher education through engaged scholarship, 2018 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 30-October 3, 2018, International.

Roles, Expectations, and Professional Development: A Pilot Study of Boundary Spanners in Higher Education, 2018 International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 18-20, 2018, International.

Saying No to Best Practices, Distance Learning Administrators Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia, June 2018, Fishbowl Discussion, Regional.

Faculty Development in a Post-Consolidated World, 18th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, September 26-27, 2017, Research Paper, International.

Extending Our Conceptualization of Boundary-Spanning Leadership for Community Engagement, 2017 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland, September 14-16, 2017, Research Paper, International.

Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Driving Questions and Considerationsfor Leadership Education Program (re)Design, Association for Leadership Educators, Charleston, South  Carolina, July 9-12, 2017, Roundtable, National.

Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment through peer observations, Distance Learning Administrators Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia, June 18-21, 2017, Paper, Regional.

E-service-learning: Integrating community-engaged pedagogies in the virtual classroom, Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15-17, 2016, Discovery Session, International.

The first 168 hours: Collecting useful learner data during the first week of class, Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15-17, 2016, Education Session, International.

Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment: Online teaching observations, Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15-17, 2016, Discovery Session, International.

Ten years of the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Alumni perspectives, 17th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 11-12, 2016, Panel, International.

Documenting teaching effectiveness in the online environment: Online teaching observations in leadership education, Association for Leadership Educators, Sacramento, California, July 10-13, 2016, Roundtable, National.

Collective leadership for community engagement: Empowering community partners as co- creators and co-educators, Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Savannah, Georgia, April 13-15, 2016, Workshop, Regional.

Developing capacity for community engagement: Communication strategies for crossing organizational, community, and geographic boundaries, Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Savannah, Georgia, April 13-15, 2016, Workshop, Regional.

Exercising civic leadership across boundaries: Public narrative and emergent models of community governance, 17th Annual Global Conference, International Leadership Association, Barcelona, Spain, October 14-17, 2015, Panel, International.

Community engaged scholarship in the doctoral dissertation: Perspectives from the field, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Canada, October 8, 2014, Panel, International.

Lessons from the EESW: Turning community engagement into faculty scholarship, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Canada, October 7, 2014, Panel, International.

The Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Engaging graduate students for change, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Canada, October 7, 2014, Panel, International.

Connecting graduate student to concepts and resources to do community-engaged research II, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, November 5-8, 2013, Workshop, International.

Communication across organizational, community, and geographical boundaries. 15th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Penn State, Pennsylvania, September 28- 30, 2015, Workshop, International.

Design Lab: Building 21st century workforce skills through service, Conference on Volunteering and Service, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-18, 2014, Workshop, National.

Creating cultures of assessment: New directions for research and practice, Gulf-South Summit: Creating Capacity Collaboratively: Connecting Learning and Civic Outcomes, Auburn University, March 26-28, 2014, Paper, Regional.

Collaborative action inquiry as a means of capacity building for community engagement, Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference: Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23-25, 2013, Paper, Regional.

Creating cultures of assessment, Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference: Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23-25, 2013, Paper, Regional.

Collaborative action inquiry as a method of institutionalizing community engagement, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, November 5-8, 2013, Paper, International.

Leveraging internal boundary spanners for the institutionalization of engagement, 14th Annual Meeting of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Lubbock, Texas, October 7-10, 2013, Paper, International.

Increasing our capacity for engagement:  How we collaborate for success, National Outreach Scholarship Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 30-October 3, 2012, Paper, International.

Connecting graduate students to concepts and resources to do community-engaged research, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, September 23-25, 2012, Workshop, International.

The role of collaborative inquiry in developing engaged faculty, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, September 23-25, 2012, Paper, International.

Integrating service-learning into your curriculum, Georgia Highlands College In-Service, Rome, Georgia, July 19, 2010, Workshop, Institutional.

Economizing the core: Justification for required first year seminar in Area B, Core Matters Conference (Valdosta State University), Valdosta, Georgia, April 10, 2010, Lecture, Regional.

Invited Presentations:

Radical Reciprocity: Operationalizing Sustainable Practices Among Boundary Spanners to Advance Outreach and Engagement (Purcell, J. W.), Auburn Outreach and Engaged Scholarship Symposium, Auburn University, Aubrun, Alabama, Keynote, September 2023, Institutional.

Stuck in the middle: Navigating the intersections of caretaking and our faculty lives (Elue, C. Purcell, J. W. & Rodriguez, D. X.), Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Kennesaw State University, Webinar, April 26, 2023, Institutional.

The Covid Shift in higher education: From widespread disruption to individual and institutional transformation (Purcell, J. W. & Rodriguez, D. X.), University System of Georgia (USG) Leadership and Institutional Development, Featured Webinar, November 16, 2022, Regional.

The future of boundary spanning, Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network (Purcell, J. W.), Annual Pre-Conference Program, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Keynote, September 20, 2022, International.

Master class for community-engaged research, Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (Sandmann, L. R. & Purcell, J. W.), Annual Pre-Conference Program, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Workshop, September 19, 2022, International.

Integrating theory and practice through community-engaged research (Purcell, J. W.), Doctoral Colloquium, Staley School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, October 13, 2021, Institutional

Introduction to leadership theory and practice, Foundational Session for the 2021-2022 KSU Provost’s Leadership Fellows (Purcell, J. W.), Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, September 7, 2021, Institutional. 

Working girl to wonder woman: Mothering and meaning making as professors and researchers during COVID-19 (Purcell, J. W. & Rodriguez, D. X.), Women’s History Month event sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the Presidential Commission on Gender and Work Life, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, April 1, 2021, Institutional.

Make the connection: Spanning boundaries, solving problems, and building an legacy through community-engaged research, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, October 4, 2018, Conference Opening Keynote, Regional.

Writing for publication as a graduate student, University of Georgia, Lawrenceville, GA, February 27, 2015, Workshop, Regional.

The engaged university: Redefining higher education leadership for the 21st century, Faculdade Guararapes, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil, November 26, 2014, Lecture, International.

The engaged university: Redefining higher education leadership for the 21st Century, UNIFACS, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, November 25, 2014, Lecture, International.

Community engagement special topics: Working with students, Campus Compact’s Diving-In: Institute for New Community-Service Learning Professionals, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, June 3, 2014, Workshop, National.