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Heather Rowan-Kenyon

Department Chair, Educational Leadership & Higher Education

ELHE

Biography

Heather Rowan-Kenyon is a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Dr. Rowan-Kenyon’s research focuses on college student access, learning, and success. Her book with Ana Martínez Alemán and Mandy Savitz-Romer, Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First-Generation College Students (Rutgers University Press, 2018) was awarded the 2018 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Outstanding Book Award. Rowan-Kenyon publishes in the top journals in her field including the Journal of Higher Education; the Review of Higher Education; Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research; and the Journal of College Student Development. She was an associate editor of the Review of Higher Education and serves on editorial boards for several journals, including the Journal of Higher Education. She is the chair of the ASHE Publications Committee.

Official BC profile · Curriculum vitae

Official evaluation summary

4.69 / 5

Based on 174 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

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Profile and evaluation data last updated 2026-09-06. See Data Sources for provenance and limitations.

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