Dr. Melinda Karp, Founder of Phase Two Advisory, joins co-hosts Jared Tippets and Eric Kirby to share her knowledge, wisdom, and insights on how campuses can increase their retention and student success efforts!
Melinda Karp is the founder of Phase Two Advisory, a small consultancy that works with broad access colleges and universities to apply the research on what works for student success to their individual contexts. Prior to founding Phase Two, she was the Assistant Director of the Community College Research Center, at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she studied a variety of student success efforts, including advising redesign and holistic student support, developmental education reform, dual enrollment, and first year experience courses.
The proud granddaughter of refugees, Melinda’s work emphasizes scaling what works while keeping equitable outcomes at the center of reform. She’s been thinking, studying, and writing about equity-forward success strategies for 25 years and in that time, has visited colleges in at least 25 states (honestly, she’s lost count)--learning from practitioners and students.
Melinda holds a Phd in the Sociology of Education from Columbia University, and an MA in the same field from Teachers College, Columbia University. She’s currently an Aspen institute Rising Presidential Fellow, as well as a member of the inaugural editorial board of the Journal of Postsecondary Success.
