Cindy Ann Kilgo

Cindy Ann Kilgo is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University. She currently serves as the HESA Doctoral Program Coordinator. She is also a faculty affiliate with The Kinsey Institute. Her research areas include high-impact educational practices, the college experience for minoritized student populations, and the facilitation of institutional change processes toward more inclusive and equitable campus environments. Her research has been published in the Journal of College Student Development, Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, The Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, and The Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, among other publication outlets. Her book, Supporting Success for LGBTQ+ Students: Tools for Inclusive Campus Practice, was released in October 2020. She was named the recipient of the 2021 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Early Career Award and a 2022 recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award.

She is currently working on a Spencer Foundation funded three-year, longitudinal mixed methods study, Thriving in College: A National Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Students, exploring how LGBTQ+ students thrive in college (alongside colleagues Dr. Jodi Linley at the University of Iowa and Dr. Alex Lange at Colorado State University). She is also engaged in a variety of studies using large-scale quantitative datasets to examine collegiate experiences and outcomes for minoritized student populations through critical quantitative analyses.

She served as the Interim Co-Director for the National Survey of Student Engagement from January 2022 to July 2023. She currently serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. She completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The University of Iowa, M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina, and B.S. in Psychology from Georgia Southern University.