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Rebecca Perdomo
Toolkit Calls for Changes in Faculty Hiring Processes

by Mary Harrison Marybeth Gasman and Rebecca Perdomo (PhD, 2019) authored a report, Achieving Equity: A Toolkit for Racially Inclusive Faculty Hiring, aimed at improving hiring processes within higher education institutions. In the report, published by the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, Gasman and Perdomo cite the persistent lack of proportional representation and…

Caring or Capitalizing
Perdomo and Guajardo Investigate the Use of Title V Funds Within HSIs

by Mary Harrison Rebecca Perdomo (PhD, 2019) and Rodrigo Guajardo (PhD student) released a report titled, "Caring or Capitalizing: How HSIs Leverage Title V Funds" through the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Perdomo and Guajardo explored Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) prioritization of funds and programs towards Latinx students by investigating two questions…

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Gong and Toutkoushian Research Degree Expectations among High School Students

by Jewel Caruso An article by Hee Jung Gong (PhD 2021) and Robert Toutkoushian, McBee associate director, appears in the Educational Policy January 2024 issue. Their article, titled "High School Students' Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences," explores the factors that influence high school students' educational aspirations and expectations and the impact on student enrollment in postsecondary institutions.…

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Hearn Receives ASHE Distinguished Career Award

James C. Hearn, professor of higher education and interim director of the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education, received the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education. The Bowen Award is given in recognition of a professional life “devoted to the study of higher education and a career that advanced the field through scholarship, leadership, and service,” according to the association’s…

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Hearn Tribute Establishes New Lectureship Series

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…

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…

Tidwell Research
Tidwell Finds Varying Levels of Applicant Support in Graduate Admissions Pipeline

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…

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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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