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Students Recognized with Institute Awards

On October 7, the McBee IHE faculty gathered to recognize the achievements of five students, as well as the lives and legacies that our scholarships honor. We were please to host award recipients and their families in person and virtually through Zoom.  The 2021-2022 Zell and Shirley Miller Fellowship recipient is Matt Gregory, a fourth-year Ph.D. student. During his time at the McBee Institute, Gregory has led key tasks associated with…

Chad Mandala
Mandala's Research on Feeling Rules Cited in BBC Article

A recent BBC Workplace article heavily references research by McBee Institute doctoral student, Chad Mandala, and Dr. Stephanie Ortiz (University of Massachusetts, Lowell).  The article, "The People Penalised for Expressing Feelings at Work," by Zulekha Nathoo dives into the ways that workplace norms around expressions of emotions vary depending on the gender identities, race, and ethnicity of the expresser. She writes, "[N]ot…

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Caughran Uses GTF Lessons to Engage Students

Tashia Caughran was honored to be part of the Summer 2021 Governor's Teaching Fellows Program (GTF). Caughran is a senior lecturer of Chemistry at the University of North Georgia, Oconee Campus and was interviewed for a recent UNG blog post by the Center for Teaching, Learning and Leadership about her GTF experience. She said, "My experience was wonderfully positive. I gained not only more teaching tools, but I also gained some personal focus…

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Webber Recognized for IR Work in South Africa

Dr. Webber will participate in a book launch of Utilization of South African Research on Higher Education with South African colleagues on November 3. Join the event here: https://bit.ly/2XnwJqQ The book, edited by Jan Botha and Gabriele Vilyte, provides an overview of the state of research on higher education in the country. The program is organized by the South African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR), the…

Brionna Johnson and Brook Thompson
GCAC Invites Research and Mentoring Partnerships

Brook Thompson and Brionna Johnson led an information session about the Georgia College Advising Corps to members of the McBee Institute community. GCAC began at the Institute in 2009 and works in underserved high schools throughout Georgia to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students who attend and complete higher education. The program currently serves seventeen high schools in Georgia and will…

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McBee IHE Community at ASHE 2021

Wednesday, 11/3, 7:00 P.M. Welcome reception sponsored by McBee IHE __ Thursday, 11/4 1:00-2:15 Calibrating Costs: Do Tuition Reset Policies Affect Student Enrollment at Four-Year Nonprofit Colleges? (Denisa Gandara & Meredith Billings) Disparate Impacts of Performance Funding Research Incentives on Research Expenditures and State Appropriation (Kelly Rosinger) 2:30-3:45 Higher Education Policy Narratives during COVID-19; How Are Budget…

Collin Case
Peer Audiences Support Presenters at McBee IHE

Research Roundtable, a student-led group focused on deepening engagement with professional literature, recently hosted a presentation screening. Students presented their upcoming papers in front of their peers and received constructive suggestions and practice fielding questions. Thanks to Collin Case and Court Cullen for coordinating and to everyone who participated and made this supportive peer community event a success!

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Wolniak Introduces New Research Models at SNAAP Symposium

Greg Wolniak and research collaborator Amy Whitaker presented at the 2021 SNAAP Research Symposium on October 20, 2021. Their paper, The Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Economic Mobility Across Three Decades of Undergraduate Arts Alumni, describes an attrition effect of students leaving the arts and privilege effect of arts alumni whose individual earnings are supported by larger household income. They introduced an intersectionality matrix of…

Matt Grandstaff
Webber and Grandstaff Present at SAIR

Karen Webber and Matt Grandstaff spoke at annual meeting of the Southern Association for Institutional Research on Monday, October 11. The presentation, Survey Research During COVID-19: The Challenges Grew Even Larger, drew from lessons learned during their experiences conducting a large multi-institution survey in the middle of an ongoing pandemic. They identified challenges faced over the past year and offered…

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UGA Institute of Higher Education Named for Louise McBee

We are now the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education! Following a transformational gift from the estate of M. Louise McBee, the University of Georgia paid tribute to the former administrator and state legislator with the naming of the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education. “Dr. McBee’s extraordinary legacy of leadership and service to UGA and the state of Georgia is one that will be remembered for generations to come,” said UGA…
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