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Biography
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development
M.S., University of Wisconsin – Madison, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
B.S., University of Wisconsin – Madison, Communication Arts, Communication Science and Rhetoric
Leonard is focused on investigating and improving how student success commitments are enacted at higher education institutions. Through research, teaching, and consulting he works to understand and interrogate how administrators, faculty and staff members, and other post-secondary stakeholders use research, data, and promising practices to enhance post-secondary outcomes. His work has been funded through the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, College Student Educators International (ACPA), as well as other national and local entities. Recent examples of his scholarship can be found in the Review of Higher Education, The Journal of Higher Education, and in a recently published volume of New Directions for Higher Education titled, Enacting Student Success: Critical and alternative approaches for practice.