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Considered a Scholar-Practitioner, Dr. Alicia B. Harvey-Smith embodies the transformative power of education. With a deep love for writing and an unwavering appreciation for the impact of words, she believes that language can inspire change and ignite potential. As a passionate advocate for personal and professional growth, Dr. Harvey-Smith is dedicated to mentoring individuals and encouraging them to surpass their own expectations, making excellence an integral part of their lives.
She encourages others to commit to seizing opportunities and celebrating life’s daily triumphs. One of Dr. Harvey-Smith’s favorite original quotes is to: “Pursue your passion with relentless determination, and let your unique talents carve a path for you in the world. Your gifts will create opportunities where there once were none.”
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Considered a Scholar-Practitioner, Dr. Alicia B. Harvey-Smith embodies the transformative power of education. With a deep love for writing and an unwavering appreciation for the impact of words, she believes that language can inspire change and ignite potential. As a passionate advocate for personal and professional growth, Dr. Harvey-Smith is dedicated to mentoring individuals and encouraging them to surpass their own expectations, making excellence an integral part of their lives.
She encourages others to commit to seizing opportunities and celebrating life’s daily triumphs. One of Dr. Harvey-Smith’s favorite original quotes is to: “Pursue your passion with relentless determination, and let your unique talents carve a path for you in the world. Your gifts will create opportunities where there once were none.”
About the Author
Having begun writing as a child, Dr. Harvey-Smith recognizes and appreciates the strength of words. “Words have the power to heal and to inspire, they also have the power to harm, she advises us, to choose wisely.
She has authored several articles and publications including On The Brink: Reimagining Strategic Enrollment Management in Colleges and Universities; Eclectic Insights Part 1 – A Composition of Poetry and Essays on Varying Thoughts and Differing Opinions; Partnering for Success: How to Build Strong Internal Collaborations in Higher Education; The Seventh Learning College Principle: A Framework for Transformational Change; and Getting Real: Proven Strategies for Student Survival and Academic Success.
Her research is cited in the acclaimed Redesigning America’s Community College: A Clearer Path to Student Success; released by Harvard University Press. Dr. Harvey-Smith is also the originator of the Seventh Learning College Principle, a cultural transformation framework focused on the intentional creation and nurturance of organizational cultures that are open and responsive to consistent change and learning.
This dynamic writer is currently researching and finalizing the following key projects: the much anticipated: Eclectic Insights Part 2 – A Composition of Poetry and Essays on Varying Thoughts and Differing Opinions, Compassion-Appreciation-Respect-Empowerment (CARE) – Essential Leadership Standards for Unlocking the Authentic Leader Within, Getting Real Again, a follow-up to her earlier work to support student learning and success, and On The Brink”: The College Closure Phenomenon, the second book in a series anticipated to be published in partnership with Bloomsbury Publications, formally Rowman and Littlefield. Partnering for Success: How to Build Strong Internal Collaborations in Higher Education will be re-released as an e-book.
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HIGHER EDUCATION ON THE BRINK
Reimagining Strategic Enrollment Management In Colleges and Universities
Higher education as we have known it has now and forever dramatically changed and so must the previous models that we once held dear. Leaders must take a fresh look at how their institutions design, implement, and measure practices in strategic enrollment management and expand the model, as never before.
Eclectic Insights (Part 1)
A Composition of Poetry and Essays On Varying Thoughts and Differing Opinions
Eclectic Insights (Part 1) – A composition of Poetry and Essays on varying Thoughts and Differing Opinions is a collection of motivational and inspiring writings spanning three decades. Dr. Alicia Harvey-Smith brings a delightful and fresh view to the realm of poetry, her authentic persona of care for mankind and pure honesty shines through in careful word craft as her interpretations of life are unpeeled; layer by layer, page by page.
Partnering for Success:
How to Build Strong Internal Collaborations in Higher Education
Written by Alicia B. Harvey-Smith, Ph.D, Partnering for Success offers step-by-step strategies for building strong collaborations among academic and nonacademic units, including how to generate buy-in for partnering efforts from everyone in the campus community. With details on several models and diagrams, you can develop your own framework for a healthy, sustainable collaboration, allowing your department to function better.
CARE
Essential Leadership Standards
CARE – Essential Leadership Standards is a must have guide that takes aim at redefining leadership. It provides important strategies supporting readers’ personal and professional growth and development. It encourages one to lead with passion and purpose from positions of vision and connectivity.
The Seventh Learning College Principle
A Framework for Transformational Change
The learning college concept has been the most popular reform model for post-secondary-education since Terry O’Banion authored The Learning College for the 21st Century (AACC 1997). The Seventh Learning College Principle is a unique resource for institutions wanting to acquire additional knowledge on the adoption of the learning college concept and on transforming into a more learner-centered organization.
Getting Real “Again” 2nd Edition
Proven Strategies for Student Survival and Academic Success
“This handbook is full of practical advice and sensible observations that will prove useful to many students, counselors, and parents alike. Having read the book once, the reader will not discard it but rather keep it as a handy reference to be used over and over again. [Alicia] leaves the reader with the subtle, but ever present reminder that much of our destiny lies in our own hands!”
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Editor/Lead Writer The Seventh Learning College Principle: A Framework For Transforming Learning Organizations, (2005). National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Co-authored, The Role of Student Development In The Learning College in Establishing & Sustaining Learning-Centered Community Colleges (American Association of Community Colleges, 2005).
The Evolving Role of Student Affairs in Learning Organizations (NASPA, 2005).
The Seventh Learning College Principle and Organizational Transformation (NASPA, 2005)
Co-authored, From Theory to Practice – A Blueprint For Transformation Using Learning College Principles, (NASPA, 2005).
Co-authored, A Framework for Transforming and Sustaining Learner-Centered Student Affairs Divisions, (NASPA, 2005).
Growing Learning Communities At The Community College: Two Decades of First-Year Student Development Efforts, (2004). National Resource Center and First Year Experience and Transitions.
A Framework for Transforming Learning Organizations: Proposing a New Learning College Principle, (July 2003). League For Innovation – Learning Abstracts, Volume 6, Number 7.
An Examination of The Retention Literature and Application In Student Success, (2003). Promoting Inclusion Journal, American Association of Community Colleges.
The Adoption of the Learning Paradigm in Student Affairs Divisions in Vanguard Community Colleges: A Case Analysis – (2003) Dissertation University of Maryland-College Park.
Retention Literature Review-From Theory To Practice, Removing Vestiges Magazine (2002).
Critique Violence on Campus: Defining the Problems, Strategies for Action appeared in Commuter Perspectives – National Clearinghouse for Commuter Programs, spring (1999).
Getting Real – Proven Strategies for Student Survival and Academic Success, text published by Duncan & Duncan Publications (1998).
Cited in the Chapter: Nests For Dreams, Backdrops For Visions: Making A Difference With Students, appearing in Life At The Edge Of The Wave, published by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Culp & Helfgot Compiling Editors (1998).
Cited in: The Community College Journal, February/March (1997), Student Development Issue,
Article: Believe the Possibilities-Holistic and Continuous Networks Necessary in Retaining Students, National Council of Black American Affairs Newsletter, April 1995.
Essay: Developing Programs For Success, Community College Times October (1994).