Amanda Latz

Dr. Amanda O. Latz is Professor of Higher Education and Community College Leadership at Ball State University. At Ball State, she is also Director of the Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education master’s program and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Community College Leadership.

Her research passion lies within the community college sector. In particular, she is interested in the lived experiences of community college students and faculty. She believes gathering, curating, and sharing these experiences can lead to more authentic and empathic understandings, which hold promise for shaping more effective, humane, and student-centered pedagogies, policies, and practices. One approach she has found profoundly effective in this work is the photovoice methodology. As such, another area of her research is focused on the promise and advancement of visual methodologies and methods in higher education.

She has presented her research and theoretical papers at a number of national and international conferences. In addition, her work has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals such as The Review of Higher Education, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, and Community College Journal of Research and Practice.