Jennifer Jefferson, EdD has experience as a longtime college administrator, English and education faculty member, writing center director, and manuscript/book editor. She most recently served as the Dean of Academic Affairs/Chief Academic Officer for Central Maine Community College, and prior to that as the Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs for Manchester Community College (NH), where she led the faculty through the first challenging year of COVID. A published writer and editor, she has worked on numerous NECHE accreditation reports and helped hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of professional writing goals, including dissertations. She has sat on both sides of the interview table and brings significant expertise as an academic hiring manager. For her dissertation, she interviewed women college presidents about their career paths. Her expertise lies in the areas of higher education career paths, academic affairs management, academic student support, gender diversity, writing, and editing. She is highly skilled in APA, MLA, and adapting documents to different style guides. Jennifer currently works as a doctoral faculty member for Endicott College and as an undergraduate faculty member for Central Maine Community College, and she runs her own editing and consulting business based in the Portland, Maine region.

Jennifer holds an EdD in Educational Leadership in Higher Education from Endicott College, an MA in English (Rhetoric and Composition) from Northeastern University, and a BA in English Literature from Hamilton College.

Recent publications:

Jefferson, J. (2025, October 14). IVF and the leadership gap for women. Inside Higher Ed.

Leaderman, E. C., Jefferson, J., Gammel, J. A., Motulsky, S. L., & Rutstein-Riley, A. (Eds.). (2021). Narratives on becoming: Identity and lifelong learning. (Vol. 3 of the series I am what I become: Constructing identities as lifelong learners). Information Age Publishing.

Jefferson, J. (2019, Jan/Feb). Purposeful inclusion: Rethinking your next president. Trusteeship Magazine (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges).

To learn more about Jennifer’s accomplishments, please see her LinkedIn page.