Tricia Shalka
Assistant ProfessorEducational Leadership
PhD, The Ohio State University (higher education and student affairs)
MA, University of Maryland (counseling and personnel services)
BA, Dartmouth College (English)
Tricia Shalka is an assistant professor in the Warner School's higher education program. Shalka’s primary research investigates the impacts of traumatic experience(s) on college students, particularly in terms of developmental outcomes. Her most recent work in this area explores the intersection of identity development and trauma in college students. She also maintains a secondary research interest in the internationalization of higher education with a particular emphasis on the experiences of international students in American colleges and universities. Shalka has been nationally recognized for her outstanding scholarship as a recipient of the ACPA (College Student Educators International) Emerging Scholar Award as well as the ACUI Chester A. Berry Scholar Award. In 2021, she was presented with the University of Rochester’s G. Graydon ‘58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Nontenured Member of the Faculty.
Shalka has published in various journals including the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of College Student Development, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of American College Health, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, and About Campus. She also contributed chapters in Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety (Stylus, 2019) and Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (Jossey-Bass, 2017).
Additionally, Shalka brings over a decade of experience working in higher education administration that actively informs her teaching and research. She has previously worked in institutional assessment, residential life, fraternity and sorority life, and development and alumni relations.
In the News
- 5/14/2021Tricia Shalka selected to receive the University’s Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 1/27/2021Tricia Shalka appointed associate editor of the inaugural Journal of Trauma Studies in Education
- 11/06/2019Wednesday Conversation - Invisible Elephants: Insights From a Researcher of College Student Trauma
- 10/22/2019Uncovering the Impact of Trauma, Mentorship on College Student Development
- 8/21/2019Q&A with Tricia Shalka on the Experiences of International College Students
- 4/04/2019Warner School Takes Part in the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting in Toronto
- 1/31/2019ACPA Names Tricia Shalka an Emerging Scholar Designee
Courses
ED437 Diversity and Equity in Higher Education
EDE479 Assessment, Accreditation and Accountability in Higher Education
ED485 College Students and Student Development Theory
EDU580 Foundations of Health Professions Education
ED506 Concepts and Issues in Social Science Research
ED476 Administration of Student Affairs in Higher Education