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Department of Adult, Career
and Higher Education
Dr. Rosemary Closson
Assistant Professor, Adult Education
Office: EDU 151M
Phone: (813) 974-8330
Fax: (813) 974-3366
E-mail: closson@coedu.usf.edu
Rosemary Closson received a B.S. in Early Childhood Education from Howard University (Washington, D.C.), an M.B.A. in Human Resource Development from Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), and a Ph.D. in Adult Education from Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL).
She held various professional positions prior to entering academe such as Human Resource Manager, Human Relations Coordinator, and Employee Service Coordinator at the City of Gainesville (1979-1984), as Human Resource Manager at the University of Central Florida (1984 - 1986), and Manager of a branch campus at the Valencia Community College in Orlando, FL (1986 - 1990).
Additionally, she also had rich international academic experiences. In 1994, she began her academic career as university faculty in Nigeria at the University of Maiduguri, where she taught adult education courses, and the following year at the United States International University in Kenya, East Africa, where she taught management courses. A special joy of hers was the development of non-formal educational programs in both countries.
Later (1996-1998) when she returned to the United States, she continued her academic career as an Assistant Professor in Florida State University’s Adult Education Department while having additional responsibilities as an Assistant Director of the Center for Research and Policy Studies, Principal Investigator for an ADEA (Association for Development Education in Africa) funded project, and Project Director of USAID-funded ABEL research project.
She continued her academic journey as faculty in the Adult Education Program at North Carolina A & T State University (1998 - 2003), followed by a stint as an Adjunct Faculty at Rollins College, Hamilton Holt School in Winter Park, FL (2004-2005).
Coming to the University of South Florida in 2005 as an Assistant Professor she has become engaged in converting face-to-face courses to online versions and in 2009 she and the university Media Innovation Team won a bronze Telly Award for the creation of the series of management videos that accompany her Program Management course.
Follow this link to view her complete Vita.
ADE 6080 Foundations of Adult Education
ADE 6160 Program Management
ADE 6370 Human Resource Development
ADE 7388 Adult Learning and Development
Reflective practice of non-dominant adult education practitioners and the extent to which race and gender affect their professional identity formation and higher education career experiences.
Experiential learning as it operates formally and non-formally in higher education with particular attention to the ways students learn about race, racism, and social change.
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She and her ADE 6080 class volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
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Journal reviewer for Human Resource Development Quarterly
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Co-planner of Commission of Professors of Adult Education conference
Closson, R. & Mullins-Nelson, B. (2009). Teaching social justice through community engagement. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl). 3(1), 1-19.
Closson, R. & Kaye, S. (2009). Understanding the Baha’I Ruhi Institute: A global faith-based adult education process. Adult Learning, 18(1&2), 9-11.
Closson, R. (2008). Using problem based learning and case study in continuing education: A review of the literature. Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 56(2), 34-44.
Closson, R. (2008). An adult education practitioner in Africa: An opportunity for relearning. Adult Learning, 16(1&2), 20-22.
Closson, R.& Henry, W. (2008). Racial and Ethnic Diversity at HBCUs:What can be learned when Whites are in the minority? Multicultural Education, 15(4), 15-19.
Closson, R. & Henry, W. (2008). Social Adjustment of Undergraduate White Students in the Minority on an Historically Black College Campus. Journal of College Student Development (JCSD) 49(6), 517-534.
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