Academic Publications

Advancing Community College Student Engagement and Success: Validation Study of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement

Wang, Y. (2024).

Doctoral Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte


How Social and Relational Identities Shape Community College Transfer Students’ College Pathways

RA Miller, L Slane, T. Gilchrist, C. Serrata (2024)

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice,  1-14


Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Transfer Experience

Slane, L. (2023)

Doctoral Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte


A Critical Examination of Perceptions of Supportive Institutional Environment Among Transfer-Seeking Community College Students

SL Dika, Y Wang, MM D’Amico, C Serrata, EM Bohlig (2023).

Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1-18


The Role of Identities and Engagement in the Intent to Transfer Among North Carolina Community College Students

SL Dika, Y Wang, MM D’Amico, EM Bohlig (2023).

NCCCJTI, 37


Student Voices and Transfer Choices: Examining the Transfer Process of North Carolina Transfer Students

RA Miller, L Slane, C Serrata, MM D’Amico (2023).

NCCCJTI, 27


Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors

Green, C.S. (2022).

Doctoral Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2022 Graduate Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award for category of Social Sciences

2023 NISTS Barbara K. Townsend Dissertation Award


Transfer student destinations: Mapping Geographic Diversity and Equity patterns in Vertical Transfer 

D'Amico, M. M., Dika, S. L., Wu, T., Holliday-Millard, P., Miller, R. A., & Atwell, A. (2022).  

Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 29(1), 21-34.


Engaging transfers: Construct Validity of NSSE indicators in the Post-Transfer environment

Le, T., Dika, S. L., Wang, Y., & D’Amico, M. M (2022).

Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 31(4), 79-104.


Understanding the Complexities of Advising Transfer Students in an Institution-Driven System

Holliday-Millard, P. S. (2021). 

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte ProQuest Dissertations Publishing


Associate in Applied Science Transfer and Articulation: An Issue of Access and Equity

D’Amico, M. M., Chapman, L. M., & Robertson, S. (2021). 

Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 45(5), 378-383.