Rate My Professor Rodney Beaulieu

Rodney Beaulieu, Ph.D., an Acadian Mi'kmaq scholar affiliated with Social Science disciplines, serves as Adjunct Professor in the Human Development Department and the Department of Public Health at California State University, San Marcos. He earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995, an M.A. in Educational Psychology from UCSB in 1991, a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1980, and an A.S. in Human Services from Springfield Technical Community College in 1978. He also holds a Certificate in Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. Beaulieu's career includes Assistant Professor in Human Development at CSUSM from 2014 to 2019, adjunct roles since 2019 in Human Development and Public Health at CSUSM and Behavioral Sciences at Palomar College, and Professor and Co-Founder of the Ed.D. in Leadership for Change Program at Fielding Graduate University from 1998 to 2014, teaching research methods, human development, leadership, and administration. Earlier positions encompass adjunct teaching, behavioral therapy, IT consulting, and program management.

His research specializations include action research, critical discourse analysis of teacher-student relationships, health disparities in human development, fall prevention using Dalcroze Eurhythmics, self-action leadership, and school funding equity for American Indian students. Key publications are 'Is the California Local Control Funding Formula equitably serving K-12 California Indian students?' (Journal of Education Finance, 2019), 'A critical discourse analysis of teacher-student relationships in a third-grade literacy lesson: Dynamics of microaggression' (Cogent Education, 2016), 'Funding, finance, and school accountability' in On Indian Ground (2017), 'Phenomenography: Implications for expanding the educational action research lens' (Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2017), and 'An action research approach to introduce Dalcroze Eurhythmics Method in a community of older adults' (International Journal of Action Research, 2017). Beaulieu received the 1993 Best Graduate Student Paper award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Emotions Special Interest Group. He has served on dissertation committees, contributed to program development internationally, and performed external reviews for educational programs.