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Hearn (left) and Warshaw (right) with TIAA and Inside Higher Ed logos
Hearn and Warshaw TIAA Report Recognized by Inside Higher Ed

by Jewel Caruso James Hearn and Jarrett Warshaw's (PhD 2016) latest TIAA (The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association) Institute report, "The pandemic and access-oriented private nonprofit colleges" was highlighted in an article on Inside Higher Ed. Access-oriented colleges have less selective acceptance rates and a wide range of test scores. This study seeks to answer the question, "How would underrepresented populations dare in the context…

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Whatley's Research Studies Inequities in Access to International Education

by Jewel Caruso On June 20th, Dr. Melissa Whatley (PhD 2019) tweeted an announcement of her latest publication in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. "Who enrolls in internationalized courses? An exploration of at-home access at one community college" is available on APA PsychNet's website. Whatley says her publication "adopts an equity-focused lens to study community college participation in internationalized coursework and study…

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Arndt Receives The Sisson Award

by Jewel Caruso Alexa Lee Arndt, a fourth-year doctoral student at the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education, received the Sission Community Leadership Development Award from the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development. The award was presented by the Fanning Institute Director, Matt Bishop, this June. The Sisson award recognizes faculty, staff, and graduate students who have produced outstanding work in community leadership…

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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. …

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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…

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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…

Krystal L. Williams
Williams Receives Prestigious AERA Award

Krystal L. Williams, assistant professor of higher education in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education, received the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Scholars of Color Early Career Contribution Award. The award recognizes scholars who have made significant contributions to the understanding of issues that disproportionately affect minority populations and scholars in minority populations who have made a significant…

Courtney Cullen
Punish or Educate? Cullen’s Research Focuses on Academic Integrity Policies

by Larissa Lozano Courtney Cullen, a PhD Student at the Institute of Higher Education, examines the impacts of academic integrity policies on student behavior and why education-based policies are more effective in preventing academic dishonesty in comparison to punishment-based policies. Her findings appear in the Journal of College and Character. With research based on cognitive moral development theory, Cullen finds that the best way to…

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…

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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…
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