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"Rob did a great job. We got lots of positive feedback from our management team." 

Joey Dennis, General Manager, Infinite Energy Center

“Rob's presentation was perfect for our group. Many of the students were curious about a community college teaching career, and Rob was able to answer all our questions. His presentation style was flexible, so he was able to prioritize the questions that we found most pressing. The students responded very well to his approachable style and humor, and felt that they learned a lot about two-year colleges.”

Mary Margaret Donnelly, Georgia State University graduate student

"We were inspired by the topic and by [Rob's] insight."

Marilyn Cotten, Coordinator of Training and Development, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE.

“I invited Rob to speak to the cohort of faculty involved in the leadership development program at Marquette University....Faculty were deeply engaged and left the morning feeling more energized, more motivated, and more capable of being authentic university leaders.”

Gary Meyer, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Marquette University

"I've been attending faculty development days for over 40 years, and [Rob is] the best speaker I've heard yet."

A faculty member at Calhoun Community College

"Rob was great about working with us to develop an interactive workshop that gave our faculty members the opportunity to share their own local experiences and work collaboratively to develop strategies for engaging our particular population of students. He built flexibility into the schedule so we could spend more time on the issues most critical to the faculty attending the workshop. Everyone who attended reported getting something they could really use as a result of their participation."

Marina Gerson, Director of The Faculty Center for Engagement, Teaching and Learning at CSU-Stanislaus

"It was a pleasure to have [Rob] join us [for our annual Faculty Development Day]. There was lots of positive buzz about [his] presentation [on critical thinking] all day, and everyone I spoke to felt they gained something specific they could use in the classroom. I will definitely recommend [Rob] to other colleges!"

Vickie Young-Chiverton, Professor of Early Childhood Education and Faculty Senate President, Central Arizona College

"Rob Jenkins is one of the very best authorities on the culture of community colleges. His advice to faculty and prospective faculty is excellent." 

George R. Boggs, Executive Director Emeritus, American Association of Community Colleges

"All of the first-hand information from Professor Jenkins was incredibly useful. I had only a vague idea of what the application process for two-year colleges was like, and I wasn't sure what kind of lifestyle it entailed, and I left with a very much improved picture about what it is to work at one. It inspired me to move two-year colleges further up my list of priorities as I finish my dissertation this year and begin my job search. I'm so glad I made the time to attend this presentation."

A graduate student at Vanderbilt University

“Rob's talk at Fordham about community college careers drew a full range of our graduate students, from those working on their M.A.s to those nearly finished with their Ph.D. dissertations. Rob is both extremely knowledgeable on the topic and a highly engaging speaker. The students thoroughly enjoyed his presentation and felt that he both lucidly and warmly introduced them to a viable and previously little-considered life path. I would highly recommend him as a speaker for any institution concerned with presenting graduate students with a full range of career options.”

Eve Keller, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, Fordham University

"I believe that for some of our graduate students, this was their first exposure to the nitty-gritty details of the life of a community college professor and that some attendees walked away from Rob's talk with a better understanding of whether community college would be a good fit for them.... Rob highlighted the egalitarian nature of two-year colleges, the pleasures of working with adult learners, and the diversity within two-year institutions. Students also benefited from his candidness in addressing workload, the number of students in his classes, salaries and summer work, as well as the optional place of research. I will definitely let my colleagues at other universities know what a great resource Rob is for their graduate students."

Rosanne Ecker, Ph.D., Associate Director, Graduate Student Career Services, Syracuse University

"Rob Jenkins gave a most stimulating presentation to our graduate students. His candid discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of a career teaching at 2-year colleges was quite enlightening, for me as well as the students, who came from Ph.D. programs in English, Comparative Literature and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts here at Emory—in other words, from both literary and interdisciplinary humanities programs. The breadth and depth of his experience at these institutions of higher education, too often mysterious to those of us in research-oriented universities, gave his discussion a personal dimension that got their attention right away and held it throughout. And the balance he struck between a formal presentation of facts and figures and informal responses to their questions, some of them challenging, was perfect. I would and will recommend Rob as a speaker to graduate students anywhere."

Walter L. Reed, William Rand Kenan, Jr. University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University

"Rob did a fantastic job. He drew an overflow crowd who were quickly drawn into his talk and he generated a great discussion. Afterwards, several faculty and grad students have stuck their heads in my office to say how much they enjoyed the talk. They don't usually do that after talks."

George Rainbolt, Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Georgia State University

"Rob's talk was extremely well received. Our students are now significantly better prepared to apply to two year colleges based upon the information he provided."

Damon Williams, Ph.D., Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Georgia Tech