Mon, 10/09/2023 - 11:44am
Former students returned for the announcement of the endowment to support the James C. Hearn Lectureship during the Institute's annual awards and recognition luncheon.
The foundational gift was made in honor of the interim director’s commitment to excellence in research by his partner, Dean of the College of Public Health Marsha Davis.
In response to the announcement of the lectureship series, Hearn said, "I’m someone who prefers to avoid the…
Fri, 10/06/2023 - 9:30am
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…
Thu, 10/05/2023 - 11:09am
by Jewel Caruso
Research by Michael Tidwell, first-year PhD student, and Ellis S. Logan recently appeared in their article, "Differences in support within the social science graduate admissions pipeline," published in Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.
The authors sought to better understand the impediments experienced by prospective graduate students in the social sciences as they went through the admissions process. Tidwell and…
Fri, 08/11/2023 - 1:57pm
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…
Mon, 08/07/2023 - 11:09am
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…
Tue, 08/01/2023 - 12:20pm
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…
Thu, 07/13/2023 - 11:00am
by Jewel Caruso
Gregory Wolniak, associate professor, and Emily Chen-Bendle, doctoral student, published a new article investigating gender differences in leadership aspirations among college students with Jennifer Tackett from Northwestern University. Titled “Exploring Gender Differences in Leadership Aspirations: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study of College Students from Adverse Backgrounds,” their research appears in AERA Open, 9.
Their…
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 11:18am
by Jewel Caruso
Associate professor, Amy Stich, and McBee Institute graduate Andrew Crain joined forces to publish new research on social class and students’ college-going and future aspirations. The article, “Structuring middle-class aspirations: the role of place-based habitus and higher education,” appears in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Their qualitative case study seeks to provide “an analysis of the structuring of…
Mon, 06/05/2023 - 8:36am
AIR Forum, May 29-June 2, 2023
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Several current students and graduates joined Professor Karen Webber, AIR President, at the recent AIR Forum in Cleveland, Ohio. Members of the McBee Institute community presented or presided over more than 15 sessions during the four-day conference.
Tuesday, May 30
12:00-12:45
First Time at Forum (Networking Session)
Meet other newcomers and learn from volunteer leaders who will share tips…
Thu, 06/01/2023 - 11:50am
by Jewel Caruso
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) recently released the book, Volatility in State Spending for Higher Education edited by Jennifer A. Delaney.
Two McBee faculty members, James C. Hearn and Erik Ness, collaborated with two alumni, Denisa Gándara and Paul Rubin, to write a chapter in this new book, titled “Political Volatility in State Commitment to College Completion Efforts.” This project was a product of the…