Kimberly Dawn Pelle MS
Adjunct Faculty, Social Sciences
Univ. Center South 206
Univ. Center South 201
Phone: (812) 941-2650
kpelle@iu.edu
Biography
Kimberly Dawn Pelle serves as Director of the Adult, Veteran, and Military Connected Student Center (ASC) at Indiana University Southeast and Coordinator for Non-Traditional Student and Family Programs, providing students with personal support, academic services and programs that meets their needs and connect them to the university. Pelle has worked in higher education for 22 years, including 10 years as an admissions counselor and 12 years managing the Adult Student Center. Pelle works closely with adult students coming to college for the first time or returning to college after time off, veteran students, disabled students, international students, LGBTQIA students, students of color, single parents, and students in the workforce full and part time.
Academic Background
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Masters
- IU Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, USA
- Master of Sciences in Education
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Bachelors
- IU Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, USA
- Political Sciences and Journalism
Professional Interests
Teaching
Pelle has a MS degree in Education, is an adjunct faculty member at IU Southeast in Social Sciences teaching a class on Bystander Intervention, and sits on numerous committees, including but not limited to: Domestic Violence Task Force, Chancellor’s Cultural Diversity Advisory Board, Common Experience, Metroversity Consortium, and the Persistence and Completion Council. She also works closely with the Center for Woman and Families, the Family Scholar House, Hosparus, and Education Matters Southern Indiana. Pelle is also responsible for the campus’ Family and Parent Programs.
Research
Publications include:
Encyclopedia of World’s Fairs and Expositions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, publication expected June 2008. Edited with John E. Findling
Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Edited with John E. Findling
Fair America: A Short History of World s Fairs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Co-author with Robert W. Rydell and John E. Findling
Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Edited with John E. Findling. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996.
Historical Dictionary of World s Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. Co-edited with John E. Findling
