Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick
With more than twenty years of successful work in higher education, Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick is an award winning college educator with a professional history in the areas of adult education and communication.
Dr. Dominick holds a Doctorate in Adult Education from the University of Georgia and Masters and Bachelors Degree in Communication Arts and Sciences from Queens College, City University of New York. As a doctoral student, she was a University of Georgia Kellogg Fellow.
Currently Dr Dominick is the Director of the Senior-Year Experience at Kennesaw State University. This program, which she designed during her tenure in the Governor’s Teaching Fellowship Program, prepares seniors for their post-university experiences as productive national and global citizens.
While at Kennesaw State University, she has chaired the Communication Department, won the 1996 Distinguished Teaching and the 1996 Regent’s Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning at the university. Her project for the Regent’s award was the design and implementation of a Presentation Technology Center to enhance the presentation skills of students across the campus.