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Kelly Rosinger
Rosinger Warns Attempts at Inclusivity Can "Other" Participants

Studies into higher education services and outcomes for the trans* community are emerging, but accessible and meaningful data is lacking. In a new brief in Educational Researcher (March 2021), co-written by Karly Ford, Kelly Rosinger (IHE PhD), Junghee Choi, and Gabriel Pulido, the authors urge major surveys to consider how to include gender and sex data in an inclusive way. "Binary categories are insufficient for capturing gender…
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Kathy Pharr
Pharr Named VP of Marketing & Communications

Congratulations to IHE graduate Kathy Pharr, who was named Vice President for Marketing & Communications at the University of Georgia.  Pharr, chief of staff in the Office of the President, has served as interim vice president for marketing and communications since July 1.  She will continue the responsibilities of both Cabinet-level posts on a permanent basis. “As a Triple Dawg and a longtime staff member, the…
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Torie Johnson
Torie Johnson: Bridging Academics and Athletics

Torie Johnson (EdD 2017) received well-deserved recognition in UGA's Columns for her work highlighting the academic accomplishments at schools in the SEC. "Torie Johnson was going to be a sportscaster. In fact, she wanted to anchor SportsCenter on ESPN. She was on her way—becoming the first black editor of her school’s student newspaper; earning a degree in journalism from Baylor University; and interning in the field, including one…

Josh Patterson
Patterson Defends Religious Engagement on Campuses

Dr. Josh Patterson (PhD 2020) issues a call to action to higher education leaders to protect and strengthen its forums for religious, spiritual and secular identity exploration. He maintains that requiring students to participate in a course on religious studies promotes healthier and deeper understanding of an individual's own beliefs and productive exchanges on differences. Patterson writes, "The courses colleges offer matter, now more than…

Rebecca Perdomo
Perdomo Returns to HACU in New Role

Rebeca Perdomo (PhD 2019) is the director of policy analysis and information at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). She leads the Office of Policy Analysis and Information's efforts to provide policy analyses and reports on issues affecting Hispanic higher education success and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), support HACU Government Relations advocacy efforts, and develop an information library on Hispanic…

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). In "Becoming a “game changer”: Complete College America’s role in U.S. higher education policy fields," Erik C. Ness, Paul G. Rubin and Lindsey Hammond unpack some noteworthy characteristics that have contributed to CCA's decade of success and influence. The researchers delved into…

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. Current research studies on contingency effects lack a holistic view of organizational costs and financial goals, and they tend to narrowly consider only short-term analyses. The authors address these limits in their…

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. They write, "[B]eyond understanding the effect of [curricular] interventions on students, we also need to understand how students come to take religion courses, or not, in the first place." In "Who…

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). Senior reporter, Lindsay Ellis, points out that practice of hiring former lawmakers and government administrators into academic or affiliated positions is not uncommon, but that "hiring officials from the [Trump] administration…

Narke Norton
Norton Recognized for Efforts to Fulfill the Dream

Mr. Narke Norton (MEd 2019) positively touches lives that will shape the future. This morning he received a President's Fulfilling the Dream award at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Breakfast, sponsored by the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, the Clarke County School District, and the University of Georgia. Narke is the assistant director of recruitment & diversity initiatives at the UGA Graduate School.…
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