O'Banion's Lasting Legacy
Terry O’Banion’s impact on higher education, and on the community college movement in particular, is both profound and enduring. The breadth and depth of his contributions are not easily captured in a single narrative. Yet even a brief accounting of his work, spanning decades of leadership, scholarship, and advocacy, begins to reveal the scale of his influence and the lasting imprint he has made on the field.
Selected Works Building on O’Banion’s Legacy
This collection highlights selected works by scholars and practitioners whose research builds on and extends Terry O’Banion’s ideas, offering a clear expression of his enduring legacy in higher education. Together, these contributions demonstrate how his learner-centered, humanistic vision continues to shape scholarship and practice.
Provost, Adrienne L.
Provost, A. (2023). Digging in the Wrong Place : Tracing Discursive Artifacts of Humanistic Education in the Community College (University of Florida). University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0059307/00001
Provost, Adrienne L.
Provost, A. (2023). Cooling out vs. warming up: History of the debate. NACADA Review, 4(1), 16–26.
Contribute Your Work to the O'Banion Scholarly Community
Scholars and practitioners continue to extend the ideas advanced by Terry O’Banion, shaping new conversations about learner-centered and humanistic education in diverse contexts. This page is intended as a living record of that ongoing work.
If you have published research, writing, or practice that builds on, responds to, or is informed by O’Banion’s contributions, we invite you to share the citation and link to the publication here. Approved submissions will be included in a curated set of links to published work, helping connect readers to the broader, evolving scholarly community.