Three IHE alumni were recognized in the September 2016 newsletter of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), a scholarly society dedicated to higher education as a field of study. Denisa Gándara (Ph.D. 2016) and Dennis Kramer (Ph.D. 2014) were among those welcomed as the newest members of the ASHE Board of Directors and Councils, while Joy Blanchard (Ph.D. 2008) was listed in the ASHE “Notables” section. Gándara and Kramer were selected as the two members-at-large for ASHE’s Council for Public Policy in Higher Education. CPPHE’s purpose is to promote research on, and to advance understanding of, the processes and impacts of public policy in U.S. higher education, as well as to help inform decision making in the public policy arena. Denisa Gandara is an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University and has previously served the higher education scholarly community as a member of the ASHE Ad Hoc Community Service Committee, by reviewing ASHE and AERA conference proposals, and serving as the AERA Division J Graduate Student Representative and receiving support from the AERA minority dissertation fellowship program. Dennis Kramer is an assistant professor at the University of Florida and associate director of UF’s Institute of Higher Education. He has reviewed proposals, arranged and participated in a variety of ASHE pre-conferences, and sponsored last year’s CPPHE pre-conference through his role as the Ph.D. program coordinator at UF. Joy Blanchard, an assistant professor of higher education at Louisiana State University, was noted in the ASHE newsletter for receiving the LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award from the LSU Office of Academic Affairs for her outstanding record of scholarship and published research. Type of News/Audience: Alumni General News
