Amber Manning-Ouellette, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Higher education and student affairsOklahoma State UniversityExperts Directory Profile: https://experts.okstate.edu/amber.manning-ouelletteDr. Amber Manning-Ouellette is an Assistant Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Oklahoma State University. She also serves as program coordinator for the Master’s in College Student Development and holds the Anderson, Farris, and Halligan Professorship for College Student Development. Her scholarly work and research foci include socially just leadership education, college student learning and identity development, and first-year student transition. Dr. Manning-Ouellette examines these research areas through various contexts including international education, STEM education, and gender perspectives. She teaches a variety of courses such as student development theory, assessment in higher education and student affairs, college student sexuality, and introduction to student affairs.
Dr. Manning-Ouellette is a scholar practitioner and has authored several articles and book chapters on a number of topics across higher education and student affairs. Selected juried articles include research on exploring civic attitudes and skills of first year students in the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, how service-learning influences the persistence of women in STEM fields published in the Journal of the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, and exploring intellectual disability as diversity in higher education in the Journal of College and Character. Selected juried book chapters include white fragility in leadership education in Shifting the Mindset: Socially Just Leadership Education (forthcoming 2021) and the role of liberatory pedagogy in socially just leadership education in Changing the Narrative: Socially Just Leadership Education. Most recently, Dr. Manning-Ouellette will serve as co-editor of a forthcoming text, Emerging International Issues in Student Affairs Research and Practice as part of the books series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice.
Previously, Dr. Manning-Ouellette worked in student affairs administration for over 8 years in various roles while completing her Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Administration and Higher Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). During that time, she served as the director of enrollment management for the College of Business, focusing on the recruitment and retention strategies of undergraduate students. In addition, she served as a student success coordinator for the first-year experience office where she oversaw 90 sections of first-year seminar courses, developed co-curricular programs, and managed faculty development. Finally, she served as a lecturer of leadership studies at Iowa State University and coordinated a global leadership study abroad trip to Stockholm, Sweden for several years.