Tags: 2011 IHE Report


Outstanding Alumni – Chris Ferland (PhD, 2010)

Betz Kerley  Chris Ferland is a futurist. If you want to know what is happening with higher education in Georgia, or if you want to know what the trends may be for the future, Chris is your go-to guy. As a senior research associate at the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents, Chris provides data and policy analyses, as well as data reporting, to members of the Board of Regents, federal and state legislatures, and senior…


Outstanding Alumni – Claire Howell Major (PhD, 1998)

Betz Kerley Claire Howell Major believes her position of professor in the Department of Higher Education at the University of Alabama is the “best job ever.” And who’s to say that she’s wrong? With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English, Claire wanted to go further educationally, and focus on teaching and learning in higher education in general. “I wanted to think about it from a bigger picture than say from the perspective of ‘what is the…


Outstanding Alumni – Khoi Dinh To (PhD, 2011)

Elisabeth Hughes When Khoi Dinh To, a native of Vietnam, decided to study in the U.S. he had no contacts here, so he looked at the U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings and applied to several universities. UGA was the first to offer him a place in its doctoral program and he took it. He believed that, “not only would a degree from the IHE afford me great job opportunities, but I could work with Drs. Sheila Slaughter and Jim Hearn on NSF…


Outstanding Alumni – Todd Holcomb (EdD, 1992)

Betz Kerley According to the College Board, four out of ten graduating high school students start their college careers at community colleges. With the benefits of lower tuition and more hands-on attention from faculty, community college can be an attractive beginning to a college career. There are over 1,600 community colleges in the United States, serving 11 million students. One of those “first-responder” institutions is Western Nebraska…


Postdoctoral Associates 2011

Brendan Cantwell published several studies on postdoctoral researchers over the past year, including “Academic In-Sourcing: International Postdoctoral Employment and New Modes of Production” in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management; “Unseen Workers in the Academic Factory: Perceptions of Neoracisim among Postdocs in the United States and United Kingdom” with Jenny J. Lee in the Harvard Educational Review; and “Transnational…
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