Rashné R. Jehangir
Assistant professor

Rashné Jehangir is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning in the College of Education & Human Development at the U of M. She received her PhD in Educational Policy and Administration with a focus on Higher Education from the University of Minnesota in 2004 and an MA in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology from the same institution in 1995.

Her research interests include student development, access, retention and graduation of low-income, first-generation students and the transformation of teaching and learning to address intellectual, social, emotional and student development. Specifically, she has focused on the ways in which learning communities along with multicultural curriculum can serve as a pedagogical vehicle to challenge the isolation and marginalization of first-generation, low-income college students in college. She has also worked closely with local TRiO programs to develop social and academic supports for the students they serve. Her current project includes a qualitative study of longitudinal impact of learning community participation on the college experience of low-income, first-generation students in the TRiO program. Given her focus on learning communities, TRiO students and the scholarship of teaching, Dr Jehangir has been a consultant for community colleges in the state of Minnesota and has been an invited speaker at the Council for Opportunity in Education National Conference in Fall 2007.

Rashné teaches courses in the social sciences and the humanities with a focus on race, class and gender issues in the United States and abroad. Most recently she has taught Multicultural Relations and Contemporary Literature: International Perspectives. In Fall 2008 she joins 18 other PsTL faculty to teach a new First Year Inquiry Course for all CEHD first year students. Co-teaching with two other faculty Rashné’s section focuses on Critical Moments in Human Stories and explores the question: Can one person make a difference.