Amy Richardson

Bevlee Watford Outstanding Dissertation, 2024

Presented by the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech.

Richard M. Romano Dissertation of the Year Award Runner-Up, 2024

Presented by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges whose dissertations have explored community college-related topics and exhibited exemplary skills in research and scholarship.

AACC Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition, 2023

This designation has been established to recognize individuals making a difference in the classroom.

NOVA Teaching Faculty Award, 2020
Peer-nominated reward and recognition program recipient. 

Cincy Magazine Outstanding Educator, 2015

Cincy Magazine’s Outstanding Educators features exceptional professors who were among the many nominations we received from students and colleagues. The winners were singled out for a variety of traits that ranged from scholarship and spending extra time with students to innovation in the classroom and research.

House Bruckmann Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014

The award recognizes full-time faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding effectiveness in accomplishing their faculty responsibilities, as well as outstanding achievements in service to students, professional growth and development, and other contributions to the College and community.

Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities Teaching Awardee, 2014

The Excellence in Teaching Award was created to recognize the top educators among Cincinnati’s 17 colleges and universities. The GCCCU’s mission is to promote excellence in higher education in the greater Cincinnati area.

University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Rindsberg Fellow, 2006-2007

Richardson, A. J., & Knight, D. B. (2024). Earned Credit Could be Lost Credit. AERA Open, 10, 23328584241289377.

Grote, D. M., Richardson, A. J., Lee, W. C., Knight, D. B., Hill, K., Glisson, H., & Watford, B. A. (in press). Lost in translation: Information asymmetry as a barrier to accrual of transfer student capital. Community College Review. 

Grote, D. M., Richardson, A. J., Glisson, H. E., Knight, D. B., Lee, W. C., & Watford, B. A. (2022). Engineering community college transfer pathways through pre‐transfer programs. New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022(198), 77-91.

Richardson, A., Moyer, S., Knight, D. (2021, August 9-10).  Work in Progress: Alignment of FYE Courses Across Transfer Institutions [Paper presentation].  American Society of Engineering Education, First-year Engineering Experience Annual Conference.

Conference Presentations: 

Richardson, A., Grote, D., Reeping, D., Newcomer, J.. (2024, April 18 – April 20). Using Transfer Student Structural Complexity as a Boundary Object for Transfer Pathways [Conference presentation]. Council for the Study of Community Colleges 2024 Conference.

Richardson, A., Knight, D. (2024, February 25 – February 27). Credit Loss for Engineering Transfer Students: Visualizations Across Students & Structures [Conference presentation]. CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity) 2024 Conference

Richardson, A., Knight, D. (2023, April 20 – April 22). Visualizing Credit Loss for Engineering Transfer Students [Conference presentation]. Council for the Study of Community Colleges 2023 Conference.

Richardson, A., Knight, D. (2022, March 31-April 2). Exploring Credit Loss for Engineering Transfer Students [Conference presentation]. Council for the Study of Community Colleges 2022 Conference.

Richardson, A., Knight, D. (2022, February 23-24). Exploring Credit Loss for Engineering Transfer Students [Conference presentation]. National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students 2022 Conference.

Knight, D. B., Richardson, A., Grote, D. M., Lee, W. C., Watford, B. A., Hall, J. L., & Glisson, H. (2022, February). Completing the engineering and computer science transfer pathway: Transfer students’ post-matriculation experiences through a four-year institution. In 2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity).

Grote, D., Richardson, A., Glisson, H., & Knight, D. (2021, February 23-25). Engineering Community College Transfer: Examining the Influence of Pre-Transfer Programs on Transfer from Students’ Perspectives. [Conference presentation]. National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students 2021 Conference.

Grote, D., Richardson, A., & Knight, D. (2021, February 23-25). Overcoming Divergent Institutional Logics to Streamline Transfer: Perspectives from a Grant Collaboration. [Conference presentation]. National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students 2021 Conference.