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Kellie McElroy Hooper
Hooper Named Dean at Augusta Technical College

Dr. Kellie McElroy Hooper has been appointed as the first dean of the School for Public and Professional Services at Augusta Technical College.  “I believe learning is a lifelong experience that can be life changing. Learning promotes growth, curiosity, and increases self-confidence,” Hooper says.  Hooper received her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from the McBee Institute of Higher Education in 2021. She has built an…

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Students Can Find Ways to Tap into Georgia's Rich Data on Education

McBee IHE faculty members and doctoral candidate, Matt Gregory, shared on-going research experience with University System of Georgia (USG) and GA Awards data. The 60-minute session covered stages in a project's lifecycle from idea generation through distillation of findings. Dr. Greg Wolniak discussed MIHE's recent data sharing agreement with the USG. A current MOU normalizes and streamlines requests for data by the Institute's faculty. He also…

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Chen-Bendle & Wolniak Critique Roadmap

Book review by Emily Chen-Bendle & Greg Wolniak appears in Review of Higher Education (Winter 2021). Chen-Bendle and Wolniak note that Ron Lieber brings much knowledge and experience writing about personal finance to his work, The Price You Pay for College. They commend his ability to "artfully weav[e] information from a variety of academic and non-academic sources into an engaging and fresh take on selecting and paying for college." However…

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McBee IHE Launches 7th Executive Ed.D. Cohort

The McBee Institute welcomed its 7th Executive Ed.D. cohort. The sixteen members of the of incoming class are all actively engaged in higher education administration at a variety of institutions across the eastern United States. The two-year program kicked off with a special orientation, social events, and tour of UGA in early January. Dr. Cain and Sr. Stich began coursework with sessions designed to take dives into professional literature…

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Happy New Year from The Georgia College Advising Corps!

by Brionna Johnson The University of Georgia’s College Advising Corps is proud to announce our program’s expansion into the Newton County school system in Covington, GA. With support from the Newton County School District, we are placing three new college advisers at Alcovy High School, Eastside High School, and Newton High School to begin their service in mid-January 2022. GCAC now has 24 advisers serving 20 high schools across the state of…

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Report Provides Evidence of Effect of Funding on Graduation Rates

Rob Toutkoushian co-authored a report, funded by the Joyce Foundation and published by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, that demonstrates an association between higher education funding patters on graduation rates. The researchers analyzed data over 12 years at public four-year institutions in the United States. They found increases to institutional appropriations tracked with increases to six-year graduation rates. While all…

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Ness Leads Exchange with Colleagues from Cote d'Ivoire

Erik Ness hosted a great exchange yesterday in Meigs Hall. A delegation from International University of Grand-Bassam met with UGA administrators and faculty to talk strategic planning. The meeting was part of a US State Department university grant project, initiated by The Andrew Young Foundation, with our partners at UGA Office of Global Engagement, Mary Frances Early College of Education, and the International University of Grand-Bassam (…

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Cain Analyzes History and Historiography of Unions and Bargaining in Higher Education

Tim Cain's work is featured as the first chapter in a new book, Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Best Practices for Promoting Collaboration, Equity, and Measurable Outcomes, edited by Daniel J. Julius and published by Routledge. Cain's chapter, "The History and Study of Faculty Unions and Collective Bargaining in the United States," provides historical context and past practices. He explores the development of faculty unions…

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Cain and Leach Uncover Patterns of Detrimental Practices

Research by Timothy Reese Cain and Erin Leach appears in AERA Open, "Removing Faculty: Patterns and Processes of Retrenchment and Restructuring." The authors scoured 30 years of investigatory and special reports by the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure to understand how practices "have been enacted on ways detrimental to both individual and the corporate faculty." Specifically, they detail how faculty were excluded from…

Tim Cain
Cain Named a RHE Associate Editor

Timothy Reese Cain started a new role as an associate editor of The Review of Higher Education in fall 2021. He also currently serves on the editorial boards of Review of Educational Research, Journal of Higher Education, History of Education Quarterly, Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.
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