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Dominque
IHE Ph.D. Student Writes Successful Grant Proposal for Georgia Southern

Dominique Quarles, a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Higher Education, wrote Georgia Southern University’s successful grant proposal for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, a U.S. Department of Education Federal TRIO Program. With a perfect score of 110/110, he secured $1.1 million in funding over the next five years for first-generation and low-income undergraduate students at Georgia Southern University who wish to…

Award recipients 2017
IHE Students Receive Special Awards

Three doctoral students in the Institute of Higher Education were honored at a special awards luncheon hosted by IHE on October 6, 2017. Melissa Whatley and Karley Riffe were the recipients of awards honoring the memories of IHE faculty members Thomas G. Dyer and J. Douglas Toma. Lori Hagood was named the 12th recipient of the Zell and Shirley Miller Fellowship, established in 2005 to honor the former Georgia governor and his wife. Dyer,…


Ph.D. Student and Faculty Member Co-PIs for Project Funded by New UGA Seed Grant Program

David Tanner and Karen Webber have been selected to receive an award through the President’s Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program. David Tanner, associate director and assistant public service faculty in UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government and a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Higher Education, is the principal investigator on a research project that has been selected to receive an award through the President’s Interdisciplinary Seed…

Lucia's Dissertation Award
Brajkovic Receives Honorable Mention in Best Dissertation Award Competition

IHE alumna Lucia Brajkovic has received Honorable Mention in the 2017 Best Dissertation Award competition established by the Comparative and International Education Society’s Higher Education Special Interest Group. She was presented with the award in March at the CIES HESIG business meeting in Atlanta. CIES is a scholarly association dedicated to increasing the understanding of educational issues, trends and policies through comparative, cross-…


Webber and González Canché Are SAIR Best Paper Winners

A paper co-authored by IHE faculty members Karen Webber and Manuel González Canché has been selected by the board of the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) as the Best Paper winner for 2016. The paper, entitled “Is There a Gendered Path to Tenure?: Examining the Academic Trajectories of US Doctoral Recipients,” is automatically accepted for presentation at the 2017 Association for Institutional Research Forum to be held May…

Manuel Gonzalez Canche
González Canché Receives Promising Scholar/Early Career Award from ASHE

Assistant Professor Manuel González Canché was named the recipient of the 2016 Promising Scholar/Early Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He was honored at an awards luncheon on Nov. 11 during the 2016 national ASHE conference in Columbus, Ohio. Manuel González Canché, an assistant professor in the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education, has been named the recipient of the 2016 Promising Scholar/…

Emmanuel Little
Little Plays Key Role in $75,000 Grant for GCSU Program

IHE doctoral student Emmanuel Little receives grant for Call Me MISTER program from the Betty and David Fitzgerald Foundation. Emmanuel Little, director of Georgia College and State University’s Call Me MISTER program, was instrumental in the receipt of a $75,000 grant award from the Betty and David Fitzgerald Foundation for the program. Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role models), founded at Clemson University in…

Ashley Clayton
IHE Welcomes New Postdoctoral Fellow Ashley Clayton

Ashley Clayton joined the IHE in August after earning her Ph.D. in educational research and policy analysis at North Carolina State University, where she gained research and teaching experience, in addition to rigorous methodological training. She was the recipient of an Association for Institutional Research dissertation grant for her dissertation “Assisting students in the College Choice Process: Three Essays on the Role and Effectiveness of…


Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement’s issue 20(2), June 2016, has been published. This is the first issue in the journal's 20th anniversary year and can be viewed online. The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement is the oldest peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication on engagement between higher education and communities. IHE partners with the University of Georgia's Office of…

Jarrett Warshaw
Ph.D. Graduates Gándara and Warshaw Move on to Faculty Positions

Two students who recently earned degrees from the Ph.D. program in the Institute of Higher Education are moving on to faculty positions. Denisa Gándara and Jarrett Warshaw, who participated in the Graduate Commencement ceremony held May 13 in Stegeman Coliseum, are now headed to Southern Methodist University and Florida Atlantic University, respectively. Gándara was one of 33 students nationally awarded a 2015 Ford Foundation Dissertation…
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