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Hee Jung Gong
Gong Finds Peer-Learning Develops Both Student and Mentor

Hee Jung Gong, doctoral candidate at IHE, recently published her article “Peer learning in STEM: a qualitative study of a student-oriented active learning intervention program” to the Interactive Learning Environments (IF=2.530) journal. The other co-authors are Hyeri Park (UGA, Ph.D. candidate at the College of Education) and Dr. Thomas Chase Hagood (UGA, the Direct of the Division of Academic Enhancement). This article…

Greg Wolniak
First-Gen Students May Find Positive Satisfaction by Undermatching

Greg Wolniak and Marjolein Muskens find that attending an undermatched institution “appears to have a positive influence, or no influence, but never a negative influence” on attributes, such as motivation, satisfaction, and self-efficacy. The researchers studied over 14,500 incoming post-secondary students in the Netherlands to see if undermatching is associated with development of an individual’s affective-psychology. The study…

Greg Wolniak
Grant Extension Adds Fourth Year to College Experience Project

The Horatio Alger Association awarded Greg Wolniak a nearly $100,000 extension to capture changes in students over four years of higher education. The project focuses on the 2017 entering freshman class of Horatio Alger Scholars through the end of their spring semester of their fourth year of college (or four years after starting college) in 2021.  The project builds on the team's prior research on the 2017 Scholars conducted…
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Ness, Rubin & Hammond
IHE Team Gleans Lessons for Higher Ed Policy Organizations

Not all higher education intermediary organizations experience the sustained growth and effectiveness of Complete College America (CCA). In "Becoming a “game changer”: Complete College America’s role in U.S. higher education policy fields," Erik C. Ness, Paul G. Rubin and Lindsey Hammond unpack some noteworthy characteristics that have contributed to CCA's decade of success and influence. The researchers delved into…

Hearn & Burns
Hearn and Burns Find No Financial Benefit to Contingency Hiring

In a broad survey of master’s and doctoral institutions spanning the decade around the 2008 financial crisis, Jim Hearn and Rachel Burns (PhD 2018) found no evidence that the tenure structure leads to inefficiencies in budget. Current research studies on contingency effects lack a holistic view of organizational costs and financial goals, and they tend to narrowly consider only short-term analyses. The authors address these limits in their…

Wolniak
Wolniak Takes International Look at Undermatching

Associate professor Greg Wolniak co-authored a chapter for Responsibility of Higher Education Systems: What, How, Why? (Brill, 2020). Along with Marjolein Muskens and Lex Borghans, Woliank expands on his work on career and personal well-being outcomes associated with "undermatching" in the United States. Undermatching occurs when students attend higher education institutions that are less selective…

Tim Cain
Cain Adds Depth to Scholarship on Activism in the Deep South

Associate Professor Timothy Reese Cain examines two sit-ins at the University of Georgia in a paper published in the November 2020 issue of History of Education Quarterly. Cain co-authored the piece with UGA Honors College graduate Rachael Dier. They focus on tactics and reactions to internally-focused activism at the University of Georgia to uncover work of women's rights activists between 1968 and 1972. In "Protests and…

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IHE Team Reviews Years that Matter Most

Sarah Burman, Matthew Gregory and Greg Wolniak assessed Paul Tough's The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us (2019) in a review published in Teacher's College Record. While acknowledging the power of the vignettes and personal experiences woven through the book, the authors invite Tough to lean more into the scholar research to support his anecdotes and to recognize more of the promising programs around the country.…

Cover of Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education
Wolniak Dissects "Female Advantage" Literature in New Chapter

Greg Wolniak is co-author of a chapter assessing current research on the growth of female student success in higher education. In “Unpacking the ‘Female Advantage’ in the Career and Economic Impacts of College,” part of The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education​ (2021), Tiffani M. Williams and Wolniak seek to uncover why the gender gap persist sin the labor market given the female advantage in higher education. The…

Power of Potential
Grant Research Finds Each College Graduate Adds $2M to Georgia’s GDP

An eighteen-month study of the economic impact of advanced degrees led by Charles Knapp, Greg Wolniak, and Jeff Humphreys estimates the actual value to the economic health of the state of higher education degrees among the population.  The Selig Center of Economic Development, part of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, released a paper based on the grant-funded study. Humphreys, co-PI and the director…
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