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Wolniak + Chen-Bendle Award
Wolniak and Chen-Bendle Find Students’ Leadership Aspirations Begin before College and Persist into Careers

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…

Stich + Crain
Stich + Crain New Publication on Social Class and Students’ College-Going + Future Aspirations

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…

Angela Bell and Nyasha Hamilton
McBee Institute at AIR Forum 2023

AIR Forum, May 29-June 2, 2023 View conference program 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…

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McBee Researchers Collaborate for Chapter in New Book

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…

McBee research
Scholars with McBee Ties Study COVID-19’s Impact on State Funding of Higher Education

by Jewel Caruso 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…

Williams HBCU STEM Research
Williams Co-authors Research on STEM Success among Black Students

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…

Ahmad Research Grant
Ahmad Receives AIPS Short-Term Research Grant

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…

Cain Wins Award
Cain Receives Article of the Year Award from AERA SIG

The American Educational Research Association’s Queer Studies Special Interest Group recognized the scholarship of Professor Timothy R. Cain and coauthor Michael S. Hevel (associate dean for research, strategy, and outreach at the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions) with the SIS’s 2023 article of the year award. The winning article, “The queer student affairs career of Stephen Lenton, 1970-1980,” reflects…

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McBee Professors Collaborate to Show Inequities in Transfer Practices

by Jewel Caruso 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…

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Whatley and Stich Research Cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education

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…
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