Jim K. Rost, Ph.D. is originally from Chicago, IL. He was always very active in the youth sports community and eventually earned a baseball scholarship to Mid America Nazarene University in 1990 and lettered there for 3 years before an injury cut his career short. While at MNU, he performed athletic training duties in various sports until his graduation in 1994.  He then became a therapeutic exercise specialist in two clinical physical therapy settings until 1997.  Dr. Rost graduated from San Diego State University with a Master’s in Physical education, Sport Psychology in 1999 and then when on to work in academic support for student athletes as a counselor and administrator at USC, LSU, MTSU, and Auburn University from 1999-2011.  Dr. Rost left college athletics and returned to MTSU in an administrative post in the College of Education as the Advising Manager for the Student Success and Advising Services department and completed his Ph.D. in Sport Management in 2015.  In addition to his administrative post, Dr. Rost was an adjunct instructor in the Health and Human Performance department from 2013 until 2020.  Dr. Rost completed the College and University Teaching Certificate in Higher Education Administration in 2020 and was recently appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership in August 2020. He continues to draw from his 20-plus years of higher education administration experience as the lead faculty member for the Ed.D. in Assessment, Learning, and Student Success Higher Education concentration at MTSU. His areas of research include: doctoral student self-efficacy towards program completion and online andragogy.

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Rost, J.K., Swayze, A.C., & McCormick, J. (2021). Effect of an experiential learning curriculum on college student graduation. Journal of Student Success and Retention (In Press).

Hughes, J., J.M. Martinez, White, J., Jubenville, C.B., & Rost, J.K. (February 2019).Athletes From Football Bowl Subdivision Schools Perceptions of Sport Specialization and Its Relationship with Perfectionism. Applied Sport Management Association Conference, Nashville, TN.

Woltring, M.T,Rost, J.K.,& Jubenville, C.B. (2018). Examining Perceptions of Baseball’s Eras: A Statistical Comparison. The Sport Journal, 20, October 25.

Rost, J.K., & Jubenville, C.B. (2015). Student perceptions of program component effectiveness of a Leisure and Sport Management Program (LSM): An Analysis to examine a Total Quality Management approach to an LSM curriculum. Journal of Applied Sport Management 7(1), 1-14.  

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Co-Presenter: Developing Scholar Practitioners as Agents for Change MSERA Regional Conference, New Orleans, LA 2021  

Co-Presenter “How Did We Change?” NCAA Regional Compliance Conference, Denver, CO 2007

Appointed to N4A/NCAA Partnership Taskforce on APR Consulting, June 2007

Sunbelt Conference Academic Summit Presenter “Best Practices in Student-Athlete Academic Support,” Mobile, AL 2008

Faculty member and Presenter, NACADA Summer Institute on Student-Athlete Academic Support, Portsmouth, VA 2008

Appointed NACADA consultant to the NCAA research committee, December 2008

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University Service:

Chair, COE Scholar’s Week Committee, 2022-present

Member, COE Academic Appeals Committee 2021-present         

Member, COE Womack Foundation Faculty Awards Committee 2021-present         

COE ALSS Marketing Representative 2021-present  

Member, College of Education Leadership Cabinet, 2013-2020

University Student Communication Committee, Email Division, 2014-2015

University Advising Committee, 2012-2020

University Transfer Student Committee, 2013-2015

University Student Success Committee, 2014-2020  

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SPSE 6007/7007 Student Success in Higher Education (3 credit hours)       

SPSE 6005/7005 Student Affairs in Higher Education (3 credit hours)         

FOED 6520/7520 Evaluation in Higher Education (3 credit hours)         

FOED 6580/7580 The College Student (3 credit hours)         

SPSE 6540 Overview of Higher Education (3 credit hours)         

SPSE 6210/7210 Legal Issues in Higher Education (3 credit hours)         

SPSE 6080/7080 Leadership in Higher Education (3 credit hours)         

ALSI 7620 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Higher Education (3 credit hours)

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