Laurel B. Kennedy

• “Identifying and Mitigating Students’ Financial Stressors” (with Julie Tucker). ACPA—College Student Educators International Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 26-29, 2017.
• “Presidential Session: Is my work making a difference for Independent college and university leaders? Seriously.” Invited discussant at the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 12, 2016.
• “Toward justice on campus: Confronting a culture of sexual violence.” Invited Discussant at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015.
• “Understanding current campus climate and culture.” Panelists at the GLCA Summit on Campus Climate for Sexual Respect, Columbus, Ohio, December 2014.
• “Career advancement to SSAO: Women from nontraditional career beginnings.” Panelist at the NASPA Region IV-East Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 2014.
• “More than a Hunch: Assessing and Evaluating a Medical Amnesty Policy’s Effectiveness.” (with Julie Tucker). OASPA/OCPA Annual Conference, January 30, 2014.
• “Structuring a divisional assessment model: To centralize or not?” (with Julie Tucker). Ohio Student Affairs Assessment Conference, Columbus, OH, July 2012.
• “Finding comfort with discomfort: Listening as an instrument of change.” (with Erik Farley and Natalie Pariano), ACPA Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, March 2012.
• “Self-efficacy, self-appraisals and the freshman male experience: Implications for advising.” NASPA Annual meeting, Boston, MA, March 2008.
• “Meeting First-Year Students Through Their Work.” (Poster Presentation), Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, Addison, TX, February 2007.

Communication scholarship:

• “The past without the pain: The manufacture of nostalgia in Vietnam’s tourism industry.” with Mary Rose Williams, in Tai, Hue-Tam Ho (ed.), The Country of memory: Remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press (2002).
• “Vietnam seeks political stability and economic growth.” Media Development 42(1), 11-13 (January 1995).
• “Telecommunication.” In Jomo K.S. (ed.), Privatizing Malaysia: Rent, Rhetoric, Realities. Boulder: Westview Press (1995).
• “Communication development in Vietnam: The politics of planning.” Gazette 51(3), 219-253 (Fall 1993).