Tags: 2015 IHE Report


Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program Marks 20th Anniversary

The Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program, established by Zell Miller when he was governor of Georgia, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a day-long conference in January 2015. Offered through the IHE and currently funded by UGA, the program provides higher education faculty from public and private institutions across Georgia with expanded opportunities for developing important teaching skills. Former GTF participants returned to the Institute…


Georgia College Advising Corps Helps Underserved Students Get into College

The Georgia College Advising Corps–a college-access program sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education–continues to expand its reach and pile up impressive statistics in its efforts to assist low-income and underrepresented students get to college. In 2015-2016, GCAC will serve 14 high schools in six school districts with a total of 17,230 students. Launched in 2008, the program sends recent college graduates to high schools in targeted…


Miller Graduate Fellows

The Institute of Higher Education named two students, Lucia Brajkovic and Kelly Ochs Rosinger, as Zell and Shirley Miller Graduate Fellows for 2014-15. The annual award is given to students with outstanding scholarly potential, academic record and professional achievements to support their doctoral study relating to current issues in higher education. “The high caliber of our current students made it difficult to select just one recipient,” said…


Thank you! 2015

The IHE faculty would like to express their appreciation to every unit who helps sponsor an IHE doctoral student through an assistantship. Your support is invaluable to our recruitment efforts at IHE. Georgia College Advising Corps Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program Louise McBee Professorship UGA Career Center UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government UGA Graduate School UGA Honors Program, and Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities UGA…


Higher Education Student Society - 2015/2016

The Higher Education Student Society (HESS) provides academic, professional, and social opportunities for IHE graduate students. The Institute faculty would like to express their appreciation to the HESS officers who provide leadership in a number of ways throughout the year. Among their duties they act as liaisons with visitors and prospective students, attend all IHE events, advocate for student interests and needs, and serve on standing…


IHE Students Present at ASHE

IHE students are scheduled to participate in a total of 22 presentations, poster sessions and roundtables at the 2015 conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) to be held in Denver in November. Their topics relate to the theme of the 40th annual conference: Inequality & Higher Education.


Outstanding Alumni – Joy Blanchard

JOY BLANCHARD (PhD, 2008) is an assistant professor of higher education at Louisiana State University. Prior to joining the LSU faculty in August 2015, she spent five years on the faculty at Florida International University. Joy’s research focuses mainly on the intersection of higher education and the law, particularly as it relates to negligence liability for student welfare and safety, intercollegiate athletics, and academic freedom and…


Alumni News - 2015

Linda Bachman (EdD, 2013) was named UGA’s inaugural director of university experiential learning in the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, effective May 1. Bachman, who chaired a university-wide committee convened by Provost Pamela Whitten in 2014 to explore an experiential learning requirement for undergraduate students, will provide leadership for this groundbreaking academic initiative. Bachman is quoted in an article titled “…


Outstanding Alumni – Makeba Morgan Hill

MAKEBA MORGAN HILL (EdD, 2013) serves as the deputy to the president and chief planner of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City, supporting the efforts of the president and overseeing the foundation’s multiple planning efforts. Prior to joining the foundation, she spent 14 years in strategic planning roles at Emory Healthcare and Emory University. Most recently, she served as assistant vice provost for planning and accreditation at…


Outstanding Alumni – Kangjoo Lee

KANGJOO LEE (PhD, 2010) is a research fellow with the Korean Educational Development Institute in Seoul. KEDI is a public institution funded fully by the Korean national government for educational policy research and planning, guiding the national agenda. In addition to his doctorate from UGA, Lee earned a master’s in educational psychology and a bachelor’s in education from Seoul National University. What are you currently working on (i.e.…
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