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Cain Advises about Faculty Tenure
Cain Advises Caution in Changes to Tenure and Faculty Governance

by Jewel Caruso McBee professor Timothy Cain was recently mentioned in The Chronicle article “A Messy Divorce: The Dissolution of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Poses a Novel Risk to Tenure” (Sept. 12, 2023) by Lee Gardner. In the article, Cain expresses his caution about changes to university tenure and the voice of faculty in these decisions. In October 2022, officials from Indiana and Purdue Universities announced the end…

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McBee Community Contributes to Comparative Higher Education Policy Book

Professor Erik Ness co-edited an in-depth look at the current state of research on education policymaking in Canada, the United States, and Western Europe. Comparative Higher Education Politics: Policymaking in North America and Western Europe focuses on recent higher education changes and challenges. The editors target five “key aspects of policymaking, namely the politics of governance as well as funding reforms, the role of interest groups,…

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Hearn Recognized with Howard R. Bowen Award

by Jewel Caruso James C. Hearn, interim director of the McBee Institute, has been awarded the 2023 Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education. This award is presented annually to individuals who have devoted their professional life to the study of higher education and have contributed to the advancement of the field “through extraordinary scholarship, leadership, and service.” It is named in…

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Researchers from McBee Discuss Challenges to Implementation of Education Policy in Georgia

Professor Amy Stich, Professor George Spencer (NYU), Brionna Johnson (MEd 2022), and Sean Baser (doctoral candidate) joined forces to identify obstacles to higher education policy implementation. They used the recent introduction of dual enrollment policy initiatives as an "important case of how and to what extent innovative educational policy efforts are implemented and carried out as intended." Published in Innovative Higher Education, this…

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O’Connell Provides Personal Review of Autoethnography

by Jewel Caruso  Julianne O’Connell, doctoral student, recently reviewed a newly published book featured in the Journal of Autoethnography. The book, An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism, is by Phiona Stanley.  O’Connell provides a positive review of the book in addition to highlighting their deep and personal connection to the writing and themes. Stanley’s story covers her life experiences…

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Toutkoushian Consulted for Definition of "First-Generation"

by Jewel Caruso Robert Toutkoushian, associate director of McBee, was recently quoted in Inside Higher Ed in an article titled “Defining ‘First Generation’ in Different Ways” by Jessica Blake.  In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling against using race as a factor in higher education admissions, the article turns to research by Toutkoushian that explored the varying ways that “first-generation” is defined.  Bipartisan federal…

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Cain explores role of academic unions in book chapter

Professor Timothy R. Cain considers the role of labor unions in higher education in a book chapter published in the Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education (Edward Elgar, 2023). Grounded in the concept of union voice, Cain argues that academic unions can both promote positive change in higher education organizations and can challenge the widespread attacks on workers’ rights and higher education more broadly. In so doing, he…

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Williams receives NSF award to study Black women in computing

Krystal L. Williams, assistant professor at the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award of over $600,000 to examine undergraduate academic and career-related outcomes among Black women pursuing computing degrees. With two degrees in mathematics, Williams has spent her academic career enrolled in and then studying STEM pathways in…

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Cain and Wolniak Earn Promotion

by Suzanne R. Graham Timothy R. Cain and Gregory C. Wolniak achieved rank of full professor, effective August 1, 2023. Professor Cain started at the University of Georgia in 2013. His research interests are in campus activism, unionization, and academic freedom. He leads courses in the history of U.S. higher education and the American professoriate. In 2017-18, he was a UGA Special Collections Libraries Faculty Teaching Fellow, and he continues…

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Jones Chairs National Task Force on Loan Repayment

by Jewel Caruso Anthony Jones (PhD 2019) chaired a national task force on the resumption of student loan repayment with the National Associate of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) that released the Resumption of Loan Repayment Report. Jones also serves as the executive director of financial aid and scholarships at the University of Utah. This task force was convened in September 2022 with the purpose to help develop a plan for…
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