PhD, 2016 Dr. Jarrett B. Warshaw is the assistant director for research and grants in the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. He leads large-scale survey projects, research efforts and partnerships, external funding initiatives, and the Paul P. Fidler Grant program, advancing the NRC's scholarly agenda. Additionally, he engages on NRC's leadership team while also mentoring a research analyst and working with affiliate scholars in the field. Prior to joining the NRC, Jarrett served as a tenured associate professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Leadership & Research Methodology at Florida Atlantic University, where he taught graduate courses on leadership, organization and governance, finance and philanthropy, and history and philosophy. He was a recipient of the Scholar of the Year Award in the College of Education. Jarrett’s research interests include postsecondary organization, finance, and policy, with a focus on examining innovative changes that enable diverse institutions and students to succeed. He has received grant funding from sponsors such as the TIAA Institute and the Center for Innovative Higher Education at the University of Minnesota to support his work. Publications from his research have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Higher Education Quarterly, International Journal of Leadership in Education, The Journal of Higher Education, and Teachers College Record, and in edited volumes. He is co-editor of Regional Public Universities: Addressing Misconceptions and Analyzing Contributions, which has been published through Wiley’s New Directions for Higher Education series. Warshaw graduated summa cum laude from Skidmore College, earning a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English, and was a member of the Honors Forum and Periclean Honor Society. A grant recipient for and participant in the college’s undergraduate collaborative research program, he served as assistant editor for, and a contributing co-author in, Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty; the chapter that he co-wrote with Dr. David R. Karp, “Their Day in Court: The Role of Murder Victims’ Families in Capital Juror Decision Making,” was reprinted in Criminal Law Bulletin. He received a Master of Science Education in college student personnel from Bucknell University, where his thesis focused on the psychosocial and meaning-making processes of legacy undergraduate students. He worked in college admissions for six years while working on his master's degree.
