About the Author
Dr. Alexandros M. Goudas is Professor of English at Delta College in Michigan and author of Community College Data. He has been teaching at Delta College since 2009 but has also taught at Darton State College in southwest Georgia (now Albany State University) and Minnesota State University, Mankato. Before that he was a licensed K–12 teacher in Minnesota public and private schools. In addition to teaching all levels of remedial reading and writing courses and college composition at a public 2-year college, Alex has authored an OER English composition textbook. He is also involved in analyzing studies, writing articles, and speaking about community college data, reforms, policy, and developmental education. He was Developmental Education Coordinator at Delta College from 2012–2017, during which he implemented many successful and innovative interventions to improve outcomes for at-risk students. He received his PhD in Educational Leadership from Central Michigan University, and his dissertation examined community college students, income, remedial status, first-year grade point average, and graduation rates.
In volume 36 of the Journal of Developmental Education (JDE), Alex was lead author on the article “Addressing Flawed Research in Developmental Education” (2012), a publication coauthored by Dr. Hunter R. Boylan. Because of this work, Alex was presented with the JDE Outstanding Article Award at the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE) 2014 Conference, now known as the National Organization for Student Success (NOSS).
Alex has been the keynote speaker at numerous developmental education and state chapter conferences: Pennsylvania (PA-NOSS), Ohio (NOSS-OH), Michigan (NOSSMi; formerly MDEC), North Carolina (NCOSS), Indiana (INADE), Arizona (AZ-NOSS), and Georgia (GOSS). In the fall of 2017, he was keynote at a Minnesota State System conference on developmental education in Brainerd, MN. Alex also presented keynote addresses in Minnesota (MNADE) and at the National Learning Communities Conference (NLCC) in the fall of 2018. He has conducted webinars for NADE and the Texas Association for Developmental Education (CASP/TxCRLA) and helped facilitate webinars and data for the Minnesota State System committee on multiple measures for placement in 2017–2018. In 2019, Alex presented at Monroe Community College in New York and for MACRA in Maryland, and he was a keynote for Iowa’s IOSS in fall of 2020 and Nebraska’s NDEC in fall 2021. He presented again at MNADE in fall of 2022. Alex also has presented regularly at both the NOSS and NOSSMi conferences for nearly a decade, and he was a National Center for Developmental Education Research Associate until the center closed in 2021. Alex was elected President of the MDEC for 2015–2016 and was re-elected for 2017–2018. He is also currently the NOSS Research Network Chair. In 2015, he was honored to receive the MDEC Educator of the Year Award.
Alex created Community College Data in 2016 to share data-based resources about public 2-year public college issues and to interpret postsecondary data contextually. The goal of the site is to help at-risk students succeed by offering thoughtful, data-based, and holistic solutions to practitioners and policymakers who routinely negotiate and attempt to improve the entrenched and complex problems of today’s higher education landscape. Find him on Twitter @2yrcollegedata.