IPAS Instructors

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Jeremy Logsdon, Ed.D.

Email: jeremy.logsdon@wku.edu

Jeremy Logsdon is assistant clinical professor at WKU. Logsdon teaches LTCY 199 to international students. He looks forward to adding in fiction to help international students communicate in a college classroom. Logsdon realized after working in the mental health field that he would rather be a teacher. Since then he has taught public school, worked with all levels of education at the district level in public schools, served as a court worker for family literacy, and even spent seven years teaching inmates in jail.

Logsdon has worked at WKU since 2009 and says it's the greatest and most enjoyable job he’s had. Logsdon attended WKU as a student and says that while the campus has gotten more beautiful, the education you can receive here is just as wonderful as the one he earned. Logsdon has been working with international students from all over the world at WKU since he started in 2009. He says he’s “continually impressed by a student who comes to another country to earn a degree in a language that is likely not their own.” Logsdon also says he enjoys seeing international students experiencing his culture through their eyes, like when students from warm climates see snow for the first time.

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Wren Mills, Ph.D.

Email: wren.mills@wku.edu 

Wren Mills is a hometown Hilltopper, but she hasn’t always lived in Bowling Green.  She completed an BA in History and English, an MA in English (emphasis on the teaching of writing), an MAE in Counseling and Student Affairs, and a graduate certificate in International Student Services at WKU, and she also holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development from the University of Louisville.  During her first Master’s degree, she completed a semester at Cambridge (England) focusing on British Literature.

She began teaching in 1997 in the WKU English department, and she move to the Organizational Leadership program in 2016, where she is currently a pedagogical assistant professor in the School of Leadership and Professional Studies. Wren also taught English and Humanities at KCTCS from 2005-2019. Her research interests include academic dishonesty in online learning, writing across the curriculum and other high impact practices, and the effect of group dynamics on students’ group work experiences.

Wren lives on a small farm in Scottsville, Kentucky with her English husband, Robert, and too many cats, just enough dogs, and not enough chickens.  In her spare time, she supports Manchester United Football Club, England men’s and women’s and the USA’s men’s and women’s football teams, and likes to cook and bake and spend time outdoors. 

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Donna Schiess, Ed.D.

Email: donna.schiess@wku.edu

Dr. Schiess joined the WKU faculty in the Department of Communication in July 2002. She previously taught as a teaching assistant in the department. Dr. Schiess holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Western Kentucky University. Her research is in the area of refugee assimilation and resettlement best practices in a midsized city. She is a member of the International Listening Association where she has served on the board of directors and chaired the committee for creating a certification program for listening professionals

Additionally, Dr. Schiess worked with the Kentucky State Police in communication prior to coming to WKU. Dr. Schiess has completed several consulting projects for both WKU and other consulting organizations involving needs analysis, 360 evaluations and survey analysis.

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Dawn Winters, Ed.D.

Email: dawn.winters@wku.edu

Dawn Winters is originally from Dayton, Ohio but has completed all of her higher education at WKU. She holds a BA in English, an MA in English—Literature, an MA certificate in TESOL, an MA in Criminology, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. Her dissertation, Success and the Other[ed] Woman: Examining the Persistence of Female Students from Saudi Arabia, was a qualitative analysis of narratives in order to explore how international students, specifically women from Saudi Arabia, break the patterns of pathways to success in higher education environments. Her areas of interest regarding research are in student success and retention, narrative analysis, qualitative research methodology, and family violence.

She has taught both full- and part-time at WKU since 2008. Currently, she teaches full time in the English Department but has taught a class on crime and pop culture for the Department of Sociology and Criminology. She has also taught classes for the Literacy program at WKU. Formerly, she worked for more than 10 years in the ESL field as an academic administrator.

She lives in Alvaton, Kentucky with her spouse, Sarah, and their menagerie of pets, including dogs, cats, and chickens. She loves reading true crime and a wide array of fiction, traveling, and cooking.