Dimpal Jain
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Brief Biography

Dimpal Jain is a Professor within Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Core Faculty within the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. As a first-generation college student from a South Asian family she received her B.A. in History from Western Washington University and her Masters and Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

She has served in various higher education roles over the past 25 years including positions at Seattle Central Community College, UCLA's Center for Community College Partnerships, Santa Monica College, and University of the Pacific as a researcher, faculty member, and practitioner.

Her research centers on the relationship between community colleges and universities, most notably how baccalaureate granting institutions can develop and maintain a transfer receptive culture for students of color. She utilizes critical race and womanist frameworks within her scholarship to explore issues related to the transfer function, STEM transfer experiences, first-generation faculty of color, and an emerging interest in critical adoption studies.

Her co-authored or co-edited books include First-generation faculty of color: Reflections on research, teaching, and service, and Power to the transfer: Critical race theory and a transfer receptive culture.

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