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Crain Starts New Role at Missouri S&T

by Jewel Caruso Andrew Crain (PhD 2020) started a new position as the lead recruitment consultant at the Missouri University of Science and Technology on April 4, 2022.  Crain's new position will allow him to directly support the growth of Missouri S&T by recruiting top executives and academic talent. His passion and experience in career development, mentoring, and organizational change will be valuable assets in this new role. …

Mathies smiling
Mathies Joins ODU Faculty This Fall

by Jewel Caruso Charles Mathies (PhD 2010) will join Old Dominion University as a tenure-track assistant professor this fall. Mathies's research focuses on international higher education, examining higher education policy at the international, national, and organizational levels. For the past 11 years, he has worked as a research fellow at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He also is an associate editor for the Journal of International…

Students at AIR Forum 2022
MIHE @ AIR Forum 2022

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum returned as an in-person gathering on June 6-9, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. The MIHE community was well represented with presentations each day and with Karen Webber transitioning to president of the organization on Wednesday, June 8.Check out the sessions below. More information about the conference and list of all programs https://www.airweb.org/forum/2022/home.  AIR Forum 2022…

Melissa Whatley's book cover
New Quantitative Analysis Book Written by Whatley

Melissa Whatley's quip on Twitter is representative of the humor and approachability that she brings to quantitative analysis. She writes, "when I was in the first grade all I wanted to do was be an author. I’m not sure a quant methods textbook is what 5-year-old me had in mind, but maybe this will do." Congratulations to MIHE PhD Melissa Whatley on the release of her new textbook on quantitative research by Springer. Her book, Introduction to…

Blanchard and Clayton with awards
Blanchard and Clayton's Contributions Recognized at LSU

Joy Blanchard (MIHE PhD) and Ashley Clayton (former postdoctoral associate) were honored for their contributions to the LSU community at a special awards ceremony on May 4 for university faculty. Blanchard received the 2022 Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award. This award recognizes a full-time faculty member at the rank of associate professor who serves as a model for the community in demonstration of a commitment to peace, equality, and…

Karley Riffe
Riffe Explores Challenges for Professors of Working-Class Backgrounds

by Larissa Lozano Although there is substantial writing by academics from working-class backgrounds, there is little research on the relationship between social class and positions in academia.  To address this gap in research, Karly Riffe (MIHE PhD 2018), Meghan Pifer, Jacob Hartz, and Maria Ibarra gathered narratives from over 200 working-class academics (WCA) to understand how they contribute to student goals and development. Their…

Denisa Gandara in EEPA
Gándara Examines the Rhetoric around Performance-based Funding

by Larissa Lozano Denisa Gándara (PhD 2016) and Stijn Daenekindt, (Ghent University), take a unique approach to researching performance-based funding (PBF). While previous research focused narrowly on states that have implemented, their study also includes states that have not implemented this policy through data modeling and analysis of PBF-related rhetoric in newspapers. In its basic sense, PBF is a policy that coordinates fund allocation…

MIHE @ AERA 2022
MIHE Community at AERA 2022

A large number of MIHE students, faculty, alumni, and former postdoctoral associates are participating in the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century. The meeting was held April 21-26, 2002 with participants able to attend virtually and in-person in San Diego, CA. AERA 2022 Thursday, April 21 2:30-4:00 Meredith Billings (former postdoc), Denisa Gandara…

Sondra Barringer
Barringer Explores How Academic Structure Influences Adaptability

by Larissa Lozano “Despite the centrality of academic structure to [higher education organizations] and their work, our knowledge of it is limited,” says Sondra Barringer, MIHE postdoctoral associate 2013-2016. She aims to bridge this knowledge gap through her article “Understanding Academic Structure: Variation, Stability, and Change at the Center of the Modern Research University” for The Review of Higher Education. Using data about research…

Karen Webber and Rachel Burns
Is Grad School Worth It? Webber and Burns Examine the Debt Crisis

As enrollment in graduate programs is increasing, so is educational debt. Many students wonder if they can afford to stay in school and how they can reduce the debt burden of attending college. Using national data on student finance and institutional expenditures, Karen Webber, professor emerita of higher education at the McBee Institute of Higher Education, and Rachel Burns (MIHE Ph.D. 2018) a senior policy analyst at SHEEO, relate trends in…
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