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Wolniak Advises Students on Cost and Benefits of College

by Jewel Caruso Gregory Wolniak, associate professor at the McBee Institute, was featured in WalletHub's College and University Rankings. In the article, WalletHub compared over 900 institutions to help determine the top-performing schools at the lowest possible costs to undergraduates. They also help predict future outcomes from these institutions to "show the value of the education students can expect to receive beyond their undergraduate…

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McBee Research Published in NACE

by Jewel Caruso In the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Journal, emeritus professor, Karen Webber, and associate professor, Amy Stich, published their article, "The importance of career competencies in work related experiential activities for engineering and computer science majors." McBee doctoral students Matthew Grandstaff and Collin Case contributed to the research and writing for the paper. In the…

Cain provides insight to UC strikes
Cain Provides Insight about the Strikes at UC in New Time Article

by Jewel Caruso Timothy R. Cain, associate professor at the McBee Institute, provides context and insight in a Time article covering the ongoing strikes at the University of California, "How the. University of California Strikes Could Reshape Higher Education" by Katie Reilly. Cain touches on the significant difference in job security and lower pay between full-time faculty members and other university instructors and researchers, "…

Krystal L. Williams recieves award at ASHE
Williams Honored with ASHE Award

Krystal L. Williams, assistant professor at the McBee Institute, was presented with the Excellence in Public Policy in Higher Education Award this past week at the ASHE Conference. This award recognizes an individual who shows excellence in their research in academic scholarship and policy practice that helps advance the public policy discourse in higher education. The ASHE Council of Public Policy cited Williams as having an equity-focused…

Erin at ASAHE
Friday & Saturday at ASHE

Mid-conference and McBee Institute folks are still going strong in Las Vegas! Check out these Friday programs. 9:15-10:00 Pearson Brown: First Year Momentum and Retention Outcomes for the University System of Georgia Jihye Lee: The Effects of Tuition Discounting on Student Composition at Public Higher Education Institutions 10:15-11:30 Renni Turpin: Reflections on Faculty, Staff, and Administrator Use of Data 12:45-2:00 Sarah Burman…

ASHE 2022
Thursday at ASHE

So many programs offered by members of the McBee Institute community today at ASHE! 10-11:15- Paul Rubin (PhD 2017): Understanding State Higher Education Policy Culture: Examining Distinct Characteristics Underlying Postsecondary Sector Changes in Utah Erin Leach and Sean Baser: A Study of Shirking: A Principal-Agent Analysis of the Adoption of Georgia BOR Policy 4.1.6 Sondra Barringer (Postdoc, 2013-2016): Critical Perspective…

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Wednesday Preconference Events at ASHE

ASHE 2022 is kicking off, and the McBee Institute community is presenting on many important topics. Check your programs! 8:00-9:15 Erik Ness, Sean Baser & Matt Dean: State Authorization of Postsecondary Education: An Inventory of Centralization and Stringency Alex Cassell (MEd 2019), Sean Baser, Erin Leach: State of Tenure: Examining State-Level Policy Changes to Faculty Tenure in Georgia and Wisconsin 8:15-9:30 Bilijana Birac:…

Webber with MARIHE students
Webber and Mathies Lead Courses in Austria

This winter, professor emerita Karen Webber is again co-leading two instructional modules with Dr. Charles Mathies (PhD, 2007) as part of the Master of Research and Innovation in Higher Education program. The courses are part of one specialty track for students in the MARIHE program, led by Professor Attila Pausits at Danube University Krems and co-funded by Erasmus Mundus and the European Commission. Karen traveled to Krems for the first week…

2022 Award recipientts
Collegiality and Excellence Recognized at Student Awards Lunch

“Overwhelmed with gratitude” is how Sean Baser described his emotions at the annual McBee Institute student awards lunch held on Monday, October 24. Sean received the Thomas G. Dyer Outstanding Dissertation Research Award. His current research examines state postsecondary authorization in Georgia and builds upon his work constructing a 50-state inventory of state authorization approaches as Co-PI on a grant from SHEEO/Arnold Ventures. Sean…

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Ness, Baser, and Dean Produce Foundational Work on Authorization

Professor Erik Ness, PhD candidate Sean Baser, and PhD student Matt Dean compiled a landmark survey of higher education authorization practices across the United States. The authors describe the purpose of the report, sponsored by the State Higher Education Officers Association and Arnold Ventures, as "offer[ing] a deeper understanding of the state authorization landscape and process." The report, State Authorization Landscape and Process: An…
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