Areas of Expertise
Karin’s background in student support includes mentoring students and faculty, curriculum development and teaching, program planning and implementation, academic advising and coaching, first-year experience, and tutoring.
Teaching Interests
Academic success strategies, first-year experience, first-year writing
Research
Higher education pedagogy, student success
Representative Publications
- Admiraal, K. and Anderson, M. (2024) “Without damaging our own academic journeys”: Student thinking about and use of generative AI in first-year writing," Mid-Western Educational Researcher 36(1) New Tab.
- Hinck, A., Angelone, L., Theuring, A., Admiraal, K., Googins, J., Young, T., Maxian, W. (2024). Digital critical pedagogy: A collaborative narrative literature review. Mid-Western Educational Researcher 36(1) New Tab.
- Admiraal, K. (1997). Staying alive: For Illinois’ small towns, survival may simply be another way of dying. Illinois Issues.
Education
- EdD Adult and Higher Education Leadership, Morehead State University
- MS Journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- BA Communications/Journalism, Calvin University