Department of Counseling, Family Therapy and Higher Education

Dr. Stacey D. Garrett is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Originally from Virginia, she received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership- Higher Education from Clemson University and joined the faculty at Appalachian State in 2017. Within the Higher Education graduate programs, she teaches master’s and doctoral level courses on supervision, leadership, governance, assessment, and personnel policy.

Her research agenda explores the experiences of Faculty, Students, and Staff of Color at predominantly White institutions and the people, policies, and practices that help or hinder their success and advancement. Her work can be found in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, New Directions for Community Colleges, New Directions for Student Services, along with book chapters in edited volumes. She has also presented research and educational sessions at the annual meetings of various national/international higher education and student affairs conferences. Additionally, she holds a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in College Student Personnel Administration from James Madison University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the College of William and Mary. Before joining the faculty at AppState, she worked in entry- and mid-level positions in residence life and fraternity/sorority life at Longwood University and Clemson University.

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Selected Publications

• Garrett, S. D. (2023).  Is history repeating itself? A Black woman faculty member's journey in a higher education and student affairs graduate preparation program. New Directions for Student Services, Summer 2023(182), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20470
• Garrett, S. D. (2023). Love at the center: Envisioning what higher education could be. The Vermont Connection, 44(1). https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/tvc/vol44/iss1/16
• Garrett, S.D., & Croom, N. N. (2022). Supporting Black womyn associate professors to the full professorship. In C.J. Porter, T. Sulé, and N. Croom (Eds). Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis: Narratives in and through the Academy. Routledge
• Garrett, S. D., Williams, M. S., & Carr, A. M. (2022). Finding their way: Exploring the experiences of tenured Black women faculty. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000213
• Garrett, S. D., Martin, J. P., & Adams, S. G. (2021). Developing non-technical professional skills in African American engineering majors through co-curricular activities. IEEE Transactions in Education, 64(4), https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2021.3120210
• Garrett, S. D., Miller, V., & Gilbert, C. (2021). The challenge of culturally- responsive teaching in rural community colleges. New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021(195), https://doi.org/10.1002/cc.20470