Jessa L. Valentine. Ph.D., is Director of Research, Evaluation, and Analytics at DVP-PRAXIS LTD and brings more than fifteen years of research and evaluation experience in higher education and workforce development systems. Since 2015, Dr. Valentine has overseen data collection and analysis for the independent evaluation of a First in the World grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, to measure the impacts of success coaching on students’ academic outcomes across ten North Carolina community colleges. Prior to joining DVP-PRAXIS, she participated as a fellow with the U.S. Department of Education’s Training Program in the Education Sciences, and she was senior researcher at a Wisconsin-based think tank focused on regional higher education and workforce solutions.
Dr. Valentine holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a master’s in Latin American studies from the University of California at San Diego, and bachelor’s degrees in economics and Spanish from Stanford University.
Success Coaching Impact on Retention for Community College Students