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Melvin Cleveland Terrell, Ph.D.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Since 1988, Dr. Melvin Cleveland Terrell serves as Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in Chicago, Illinois. Formerly, he served as Director of Minority Affairs and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Toledo, where he received the “Administrator of the Year Award” by the student body for three consecutive years. He also served as Director of the Multicultural Education Center and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in addition to several other institutions.
Dr. Terrell earned his B.S.Ed. Degree (1971) in History and Secondary Education from Chicago State University and his M.Ed. (1974) in College Student Personnel with and emphasis on Counseling from Loyola University (Chicago). Dr. Terrell received his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Black Studies from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1978) and continued postdoctoral studies at Harvard University and the University of Virginia. In addition, he served as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at Florida State University in 1993-1994. During his tenure at NEIU, he has taught courses in Higher Education Administration, Student Affairs Management, and Ethnic Studies. He has acted as an envoy for NEIU to Marangu, Tanzania; Paris, France and Warsaw, Poland, focusing on expanding opportunities for NEIU students and faculty for study and research abroad.
Dr. Terrell is Past President of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals (NASAP) and the Past Director of the American College Personnel Association's (ACPA) Core Council for Professional Issues. He has served as Editor of the NASAP Journal since 1997, one of the leading student affairs journals in the nation. In addition, he serves on the Editorial Board of the Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE) Journal. Dr. Terrell’s previous editorial board memberships included the ACPA Journal of College Student Development and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Journal.
In 2002, Dr. Terrell co-authored the groundbreaking book, How Minority Students Experience College: Implications for Planning and Policy. He is one of the leading names in student affairs scholarship and practice today and has authored more than 30 publications including monographs, book chapters, and articles in refereed journals. His latest book, Creating and Maintaining Safe College Campuses: A Sourcebook for Evaluating and Enhancing Safety Programs, will be published in spring, 2007 by Stylus Publishing. He has presented at more than 15 student affairs conferences and has written or co-written grants totaling more than $2 million dollars. His dedication to research in the student affairs field was acknowledged when he received the 2004 NASPA Outstanding Contribution to Literature or Research Award and the 1990 Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Student Personnel Administrator, NASPA, Region IV East, the first minority administrator to receive this prestigious recognition. In November 2006, he received the NASPA Region IV East Award for Outstanding Performance as a Senior Student Affairs Officer and the Monarch Award for Education, Xi Nu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
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