Dr. Masha Krsmanovic
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Krsmanovic’s areas of higher education expertise include first-year experience, first-year seminars, scholarship of teaching and learning, curriculum and course design, high-impact practices, internationalization of higher education, and international students. Prior to her higher education career, Dr. Krsmanovic worked in varied international settings leading the design and facilitation of training programs in the fields of ESL and adult education. She is the recipient of USM's Excellence in Online Teaching Award, CEHS Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Hampton S. Williams Educational Research and Administration Foundation Award, and Fraternity and Sorority Life Favorite Faculty Member Award.
- PHD - University of Central Florida (2019)
HE 712: Two-Year College
HE 716: Higher Education Law
HE 715: Teaching in Higher Education
HE 793, 794, 795, 796: Field Problems (Capstone)
HE 612: Helping Skills in Student Affairs Practice
HE 792: Special Problems - International Higher Education
HE 792: Special Problems - Multiculturalism and Multilingualism on College Campuses
HE 792: Special Problems - High Impact Practices
HE 792: Special Problems - Qualitative Research
- Resident, non-resident, and "the other": Examining institutional and state policies for international student residency classification for tuition purposes and the associated cost of fees, Journal of Education Finance, 2020, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/760720/pdf
- Culturally relevant pedagogy as a teaching strategy for first-year seminar courses in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Journal of First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. , 2022
- Becoming a Hispanic-serving institution: A case study of faculty perspectives on teaching and learning, Journal of Latinos in Higher Education, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2021.1899923
- Who improves most? The differences in first-year students’ learning attitudes and behaviors measured by college success factor index, Journal of the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning, 2020, https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v20i2.27446
- Response of STEM and social science faculty to the COVID-19 crisis: An application of organizational learning, College Teaching, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2021.1973948
- Widening the pathway to a degree: The impact of first-year seminar courses at an emerging Hispanic serving institution. , Journal of First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2020, https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/national_resource_center/publications/search/details.php?id=2620
- Using first-year seminar courses to improve performance funding outcomes: A case study of the state of Florida. , Voices of Reform, 2019, https://doi.org/10.32623/2.00004
- Course redesign: Implementing project-based learning to improve students’ self- efficacy, Journal on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/28723
- Retention and Academic Achievement of Students of Color in a Large Urban Hispanic-Serving Institution , Journal of Latinos in Higher Education, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2021.1976184
- “I was new and I was afraid”: The acculturation strategies adopted by international first-year students in the United States. , Journal of International Students, 2020, https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10i4.1160
- American Educational Research Association
- Association for the Study of Higher Education
- Comparative and International Education Society