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Catherine A. Hansman, Professor Emerita
CASAL Department
Levin College of Public Affairs and Education
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Phone: (216) 687-4612
EMAIL: c.hansman@csuohio.edu

Catherine Hansman, Ed.D., is Professor Emerita of Adult Learning and Development at Cleveland State University. She retired in June 2021 after 23 years of teaching at Cleveland State University and has over 35 years in teaching and administrative roles in higher education institutions. She served as the program coordinator of the Adult Learning and Development (ALD) program for more than 11 years, and she was director of the Master of Education in Health Professions Education (MEHPE) for nine years. She coordinated the Adult, Continuing, and Higher Education specialization in the Ph.D. in Urban Education program from 2000 until her retirement. Dr. Hansman teaches graduate courses in adult education and qualitative research in the Master of Education in Adult Learning and Development and the Ph.D. in Urban Education program at Cleveland State University. She teaches graduate courses as an adjunct faculty member following her retirement, including adult education learning theory courses at Rutgers University.

Dr. Hansman has written and edited books, book chapters, and articles in refereed journals concerning her research interests of learning in adulthood, higher education, mentoring, context-based learning, communities of practice, policies related to adult learners, qualitative research, history of adult education, and issues of diversity. She coedited the Adult Education Quarterly, a peer-reviewed premier journal in adult education, from 2014 to 2019. She was awarded the Cyril O. Houle Emerging Scholar in Adult and Continuing Education Scholarship and was bestowed a Distinguished Faculty Award for Research by Cleveland State University.

In 2016, Dr. Hansman was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. Dr. Hansman is the Past President of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE), and she also chaired the Commission of Professors of Adult Education (CPAE) and served on its executive committee for six years.