Mimi Benjamin

Mimi Benjamin is Associate Professor of Student Affairs in Higher Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include student co-curricular learning outcomes, learning communities, and faculty experiences.  She co-authored (with Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, Jody E. Jessup-Anger, and Matthew R. Wawrzynski) Living-Learning Communities That Work: A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery, and Assessment (Stylus, 2018). She is the editor of the 2015 New Directions for Student Services book Learning Communities from Start to Finish and served as a student affairs administrator for 19 years, during which time she worked extensively with residential programs and learning communities.  She served as a Resource Faculty Member at the 2016 National Summer Institute on Learning Communities at The Washington Center at The Evergreen State College and has given professional presentations on learning community topics at the American College Personnel Association Convention, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Conference, the Learning Communities and Collaboration Conference, and the National Learning Communities Project Conference.  In 2011, Mimi was a guest co-editor for a special issue focused on faculty involvement in residence halls for the Journal of College and University Student Housing. She also is the co-editor of the book Maybe I Should . . . Case Studies in Ethics for Student Affairs Professionals (2009) and the forthcoming second edition of that book. Mimi earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a focus on Higher Education from Iowa State University, her M.Ed. in College Student Personnel from Ohio University, her M.A. in English from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and her B.S. in Secondary Education-English from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.