Thu, 05/25/2023 - 11:01am
Research by three McBee Institute PhD graduates and a former postdoctoral associate is published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. The article, titled "'One of the Weakest Budget Players in the State': State Funding of Higher Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic" is a qualitative study of higher education appropriation decisions in two states.
The authors, Denisa Gándara, Meredith S. Billings, Paul G. Rubin, and Lindsey…
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 8:30am
by Jewel Caruso
Krystal L. Williams, assistant professor at the McBee Institute, co-published an article in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering with Leonard D. Taylor, associate professor at Auburn University.
Their article, "The Black Cultural Student Stem Success Model: A Framework for Black Students' Stem Success Informed by HBCU Environments and Black Educational Logics" explores the Black Cultural Student (BCS)…
Mon, 05/15/2023 - 2:49pm
by Jewel Caruso
Ijaz Ahmad, current doctoral student, has a received short-term research grant from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) for $3,000.
This grant will help fund Ahmad's research related to Pakistan's higher education, titled "Seeing Beyond Control: Assessing the Impact of the 18th Amendment on Pakistan's Higher Education."
Ahmad strives to explores how the quality and relevance of higher education in different…
Thu, 03/23/2023 - 11:54am
Amy Stich, associate professor, and George Spencer, assistant professor, recently published an article in Research in Higher Education titled “College Choice Revisited: Socioeconomic Differences in College Transfer Destinations Among Four-Year College Entrants.”
Stich and Spencer sought to gain more insight into the strategies and effects behind lateral transfer decisions among students across socioeconomic groups. They believe the study “…
Tue, 02/07/2023 - 8:31am
by Jewel Caruso
A research paper co-authored by Amy Stich and Melissa Whatley in 2020 recently appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The new article, titled "Latitudes: To Improve Study-Abroad Rates, College Focus on the Missing Students" by Karin Fischer, discusses the obstacles underrepresented students experience with study abroad opportunities. When the topic of research is brought up, Fischer brings in Whatley and Stich's paper…
Tue, 01/10/2023 - 10:52am
by Jewel Caruso
Ben Cecil (PhD 2022) and Justin Jeffery (PhD 2021) co-authored an article recently published in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies. The paper, "International Student Engagement: Closing Gaps and Internationalizing Student Affairs," was released in the December 2022 issue.
International students experience many challenges at US Institutions; such as, language barriers, misunderstandings of their culture…
Thu, 01/05/2023 - 9:27am
by Jewel Caruso
Kate Collier (doctoral student), Sondra Barringer (former post doc), and Karley Riffe (alumnus) appear in The International Journal of Higher Education Research. The paper, "University presidents as agents of connection: an exploratory study of elite presidential ties in the United States, 2005-2020," explores how university presidents form relations between their institutions and external organizations. Using data from elite…
Fri, 12/16/2022 - 11:27am
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 article, they explain…
Tue, 11/22/2022 - 8:35am
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…
Thu, 11/17/2022 - 4:04pm
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 and Mary…