The California Chronicles
Teaching and Student Advisement
Over 20 years teaching and advising students across multiple institutions:
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Institutions: University of Cambridge, UCLA, UC Irvine, California State University Northridge
Courses: 15+ courses as instructor of record across English, Communications, Accounting, and Business Informatics
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Curriculum Creation: Knowledge Management, Remedial Statistics, Remedial English, Business Communications, Accounting Communications
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Advising Focus:​ Degree navigation, financial aid, graduation planning, imposter syndrome and motivation, institutional barrier navigation, application support for grants and graduate programs
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Student Populations: Extensive work with first-generation, Pell-eligible, underserved, and minority students in developmental education and gateway courses
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Pedagogical Innovation and Equity Technology, Policy, and Ethics
Dr. Cornelius' research examines how people navigate complex institutional systems and how to design more accessible, equitable interfaces between organizations and the communities they serve. This work directly informs her student-facing practice and understanding the barriers students encounter and creating more effective pathways through institutional bureaucracy.
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Her scholarship spans transparency and accountability in organizational information systems, innovative pedagogical design for underserved student populations, and the intersection of technology, policy, and access. As Lead Researcher on multiple projects, she has presented findings at international conferences and published in peer-reviewed venues including ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
(CSUN, 2013-2014)
Led development of novel curriculum for CSUN's Pre-Statistics course (MATH 096S) serving underprepared students. Created narrative-based workbook and online homework system that integrated mathematics with real-world applications, improving engagement and success rates for students historically underserved by traditional approaches.
CSUN’s pilot Pre-Statistics course, MATH 096S, prepares students for their subsequent Introductory Statistics course (MATH 140) by providing arithmetic and algebraic backgrounds essential to statistical reasoning. As we were not fully satisfied with the Statway® material and with the Math Lit book we used during the first two pilot years respectively (2011/12 and 2012/13), our team developed a new workbook for MATH 096S during summer 2013. The material in the workbook is presented in the form of a novel: Four college students take a road trip, and as they travel across America they solve application problems pertinent to each part of their journey. Rather than proceeding through mathematics topics in a traditional sequence, the workbook engages students in mathematical and statistical analysis from day one by integrating English, math, statistics, and topics from science throughout.
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During the Spring semester of 2014, while the MATH 096S course was still under the course redesign process, we used ALEKS (an online homework system provided by McGraw- Hill publishing company) for the online component of the course, but it did not cover all the topics we cover in the workbook, and it did not align with the spirit of our new workbook at all. Extensive searching of available online homework systems established that none exists that would complement the workbook, and, therefore, we decided to create our own online homework component for the course.
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The primary objective of the project was to develop an online homework library and other resources for our MATH 096S course that would align closely with the story and problems in the workbook. Matching the spirit of the workbook, this online component of the course is also presented as part of the road-trip journey. Students might choose one of the characters, for instance, and they themselves become part of the story solving real life problems similar to the workbook problems. The platform we use for our online component is the XYZ publishing company, who coded our homework problems into their system. Students gain access by purchasing a year-long access code for a very reasonable cost of $30. The company maintains our homework library in the future, but we hold the copyright of the problems.
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Examines surveillance, privacy, and resistance at the intersection of digital and physical spaces, with focus on protecting vulnerable populations from institutional oversight and control.