The Impact Of Students' Life Experiences On Program Retention. A Study Of Female Engineering Students In Mexico.

Jennifer Sandlin, Arizona State University Jennifer A. Sandlin is an assistant professor in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses focused on consumption, learning, and education. Before joining the faculty at ASU she was an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development for five years at Texas A&M University, where she taught courses in adult learning, qualitative research methods, and adult education. Her research interests include adult education, public pedagogy, popular culture, informal learning, and various sites of ideological education. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, International Journal of Consumer Studies, Adult Education Quarterly, the International Journal of Lifelong Education, and Studies in the Education of Adults, among others, and she currently has work forthcoming in Curriculum Inquiry and Teachers College Record. She currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Adult Education Quarterly, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Adult Basic Education and Literacy, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Jennifer received a B.A. in English Literature from Millsaps College, and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico. She received a Ph.D. in Adult Education from The University of Georgia in 2001.