| Title | Associate Director, Student Services |
|---|---|
| Department | McKeown School of Education |
| Office | Sullivan Building 304 |
| Phone | 978.542.4898 |
| vu.tran@salemstate.edu |
| EDA 901 | Programmatic Assessment for Initial Education Licensure I |
|---|---|
| EDA 904 | Programmatic Assessment for Initial Education Licensure IV |
| EDA 905 | Programmatic Assessment for Initial Education Licensure V |
| EDU 704 | Multicultural Issues in Student Affairs |
| EDU 803 | Helping Skills for the Student Affairs Professionals |
| EDU 811 | Administration and Organization in Higher Education |
| EDU 985A | Practicum in Student Affairs I |
Vu Tran (he/him/his) is a scholar and educator who explores the complexities of issues pertaining to age identity, adultism, and intergenerational relationships in higher education contexts. Motivated by his own experiences of troublesome age dynamics in the workplace, he decided time that more scholarship was needed in this area. He earned a PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs at The Ohio State University, where he critically examined issues of adultism in higher education through his dissertation research.
He approaches his work from an inter-disciplinary perspective, which includes presentations at age studies conferences such as the North American Network on Aging Studies and the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education. He also positions his work on age from an intersectional lens, where issues of ageism and adultism are considered in context with other forms of systemic oppression such as racism and sexism.
Vu has been in leadership roles within higher education and student affairs for over 15 years, including ACPA's Commission for Social Justice Education and NASPA's Men and Masculinities Knowledge Community. Vu has been in professional higher education and student affairs positions at seven different universities spanning from residence life to academic affairs. Currently, Vu is the Associate Director of Student Services in the McKeown School of Education at Salem State University.
Reece, B. J., Tran, V. T., DeVore, E. N., Porcaro, G. (Eds.) (2018). Debunking the myth of job fit in higher education and student affairs. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Johnston-Guerrero, M. P., & Tran, V. T. (2018). Is it really the best of both worlds? Exploring notions of privilege associated with multiraciality. Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, 7(1), 16–37. http://doi.org/ISSN 2152-1875
Tran, V. T. & Johnston-Guerrero, M. P. (2016). Is transracial the same as transgender? The utility and limitations of identity analogies in multicultural education. Multicultural Perspectives, 18(3), 134-139. http://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2016.1186548
Johnston-Guerrero, M. P. & Tran, V. T. (2016). Born this way? How U.S. college students make sense of the biological underpinnings of race and other identities. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 18(2), 107-124. http://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v18i2.1126
Tran, V. T. (2018, March). Why it’s hard to discuss age in higher education. Pecha Kucha talk presented at the American College Personnel Association Annual Convention, Houston, TX.
Tran, V. T. (2017, November). The adultism in advice giving in student affairs. Research paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Houston, TX.
Tran, V. T. (2016, March). A generationally intelligent approach to addressing ageism and adultism in student affairs. Workshop presented at the American College Personnel Association Annual Convention, Montréal, QC.
Tran, V. T. & Chan, J. (2016, March). Is there a “right” time? A life course perspective on student affairs career trajectories. Workshop presented at the American College Personnel Association Annual Convention, Montréal, QC.