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Greg Wolniak

Grant Extension Adds Fourth Year to College Experience Project

The Horatio Alger Association awarded Greg Wolniak a nearly $100,000 extension to capture changes in students over four years of higher education.

Ness, Rubin & Hammond

IHE Team Gleans Lessons for Higher Ed Policy Organizations

Not all higher education intermediary organizations experience the sustained growth and effectiveness of Complete College America (CCA).

Hearn & Burns

Hearn and Burns Find No Financial Benefit to Contingency Hiring

In a broad survey of master’s and doctoral institutions spanning the decade around the 2008 financial crisis, Jim Hearn and Rachel Burns (PhD 2018) found no evidence that the tenure structure leads to inefficiencies in budget.

Josh Patterson

Patterson Finds Course Enrollment Tied to Institution Type More than to Student Characteristics

Drawing on recent work relating a reduction of racial bias with diversity education, Josh Patterson (PhD 2020) and Robert L. Foster seek to provide a foundation for studies seeking to explore the effects of religious education on ecumenical outlook.

Barrett Taylor

Taylor Quoted on Backlash to Hiring Political Figures

Barrett Taylor (PhD 2012) is quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education article, "'Many people are seeing different facts': Carnegie Mellon official's emails on election spark outcry" (Jan. 11, 2021).