Farewell to Russ Hodges: Retiring After 42 Years

Russ Hodges, EdD, an associate professor in the Graduate Program in Postsecondary Student Success in Learning, Literacy, and Mathematics within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University (TXST) in San Marcos, Texas, recently retired in August of 2025. He will step down as co-editor of J-CASP with the release of this issue. Russ taught both graduate and undergraduate courses and retired after a 42-year career, which he began as an academic counselor and lecturer at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL, 1983-1986), and continued at TXST (1986-2025). He is a distinguished Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA) Fellow, former CLADEA chair, and former president of both the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) and the Texas Chapter of CRLA.