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Whatley and Stich
Whatley and Stich Test Network Analysis in Meta-Study

Melissa Whatley (PhD 2019) and Amy Stich collaborated on a recent article published in Journal of Mixed Methods Research, "Pushing the Integration Envelope: A Network Analysis of Study Abroad Website Content." Using previous research on study abroad programs, Whatley & Stich employed network analysis "as a strategy for integrating data through analysis and as a way of validating earlier findings." They identify specific…

Stich, Grandstaff, Ndika & Cumbass
Researchers Explore Team Dynamics in ICQI Presentation

Amy Stich, Elizabeth Ndika, Kanler Cumbass, and Collin Case recently presented their paper, Negotiating Ourselves: Navigating Paradigmatic Conflict and Diverse Identities in Collaborative Qualitative Research at the 2021 ICQI Conference. Within higher education, large-scale, externally funded qualitative research often requires multiple researchers engaged in the collection, management, and analysis of data. Numerous scholars have examined…

Justin Jeffery
GAISA Will Release Briefs on International Education in Post-Covid World

With the onset of the pandemic, higher education was forced to adapt to online and hybrid education, and international students were significantly affected by these changes. The Global Alliance for International Student Advancement (GAISA) recently partnered with Hanover Research to investigate and release a series of research briefs focused on international students. The theme of this partnership is Reimagining International…
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George Spencer and AERA Journal
Helping All Students Preserve Transfer Credits

The number of credit hours that transfer students can carry with them to their new institution can be an important factor in student momentum and degree completion.  In a paper in American Educational Research Journal, George Spencer takes a look at the paths less studied, but increasingly taken, and reviews credit hour loss among lateral and reverse transfers. Since most of the state-wide policies were written for a…

Webber and Zheng at Summit
Summit on Big Data in Higher Education Highlights Data-Informed Decision Making

Big data is getting big attention. Karen Webber and Henry Zheng (The Ohio State University) presented at the EdgeEvents virtual summit, Big Data on Campus: Becoming a Data Informed Institution. Webber and Zheng offered an overview of data analytics in higher education with terms, applications, trends, common barriers, and major issues, such as privacy and ethics. They drew on research and examples collected for…
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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…
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