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Denisa Gandara
Gándara Sheds Light on Importance of Markup Process

Denisa Gándara (PhD 2016) and Sosanya Jones investigate how policymakers use discursive strategies in advocating higher education policy in "Who Deserves Benefits in Higher Education?: A Policy Discourse Analysis of a Process Surrounding Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act." The paper appears in the fall 2020 issue of Review of Higher Education. Using the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (…

Tim Cain
Cain Releases Study of AAUP Reports

A research paper by Tim Cain appears in the fall 2020 issue of Review of Higher Education. In "Collective Bargaining and Committee A: Five Decades of Unionism and Academic Freedom," Cain uses 50 years of reports by the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure to unravel the complicated relationship between unionization and academic freedom on college campuses.…

Hearn TIAA headline
Hearn Expands Higher Ed Metaphors

In an essay, "Reframing Decision Making in the Current Crisis," published by the TIAA Institute, Jim Hearn challenges industrial production rubrics and labels often applied to gage the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education institutions. Instead, he advises his students (current and future higher education leaders) to think more broadly about the role of our colleges and universities, "not…

George Spencer
Spencer Quoted in EducationDive

George Spencer is quoted in "How 2- and 4-year colleges can boost spring enrollment" in EducationDive. Spencer's research of articulation agreements that define how credits transfer between schools (particularly between two-year and four-year higher education institutions) indicates an important part of convincing students to re-engage with higher education during the pandemic. "While colleges have been more flexible for students coming directly…

Webber and Burns
Webber & Burns Research Grad Student Debt

Karen Webber and Rachel Burns (PhD 2018) appear in Research in Higher Education. Noting the upward trend in borrowing among graduate and professional students, Webber and Burns investigate the implications on students and institutions and on policy development.  Using data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data (IPEDS), their study examines educational debt…
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Amy Stich
Stich Publishes Tracking Research

Research on tracking systems in post-secondary education by Amy Stich appears in the Journal of Higher Education. Her paper, "Beneath the White Noise of Postsecondary Sorting: A Case Study of the 'Low' Track in Higher Education," tackles the seemingly benign language used to perpetuate "organizational foundations, hierarchies, and processes that are constituting and constituted by race." Stich collected data during the 2016–2017 academic year at…
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Hearn & Ahmad
Ahmad and Hearn Present Paper at European Conference

PhD student Ijaz Ahmad presented a paper with Jim Hearn at the 36th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium on July 2, 2020. Their quantitative comparison of 21 European higher education systems is titled A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Adoption and Diffusion of Performance-based Funding in European Higher Education.  The study addresses conceptual and methodological limitations in previous studies. To better…
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Tim Cain
Cain Quoted in NASFAA Report

Tim Cain provides expert commentary on college student activism in "Graduate Student Unions Push Back against Institutions' COVID-19 Policies, Perceived Unfair Treatment on Campus." The article chronicles higher education student strikes at the University of Michigan and University of Kansas in response to COVID-19 concerns. In relation to the pandemic, he noted, “Some of the ways decisions have been made and some of the lack of…

Webber and Stich
Webber & Stich Project Awarded NSF Grant

Researchers in the UGA Institute of Higher Education were awarded $690,027 by the National Science Foundation to study how students’ access to experiential learning opportunities is affected by their proximity to areas with major economic and workforce activity. Karen Webber, professor of higher education, is PI, and Amy Stich, assistant professor of higher education, is co-PI on the project, “The Effect of Geographic Locale on Access to Work-…
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Hammond, Baser & Cassell
IHE Team Examines Community College Funding Patterns

"The Relationships Between State Community College Governance Centralization and Local Appropriations" appears in the latest issue of Higher Education Politics & Economics. The research by Lindsey Hammond (PhD 2020), Sean Baser (PhD student) and Alexander Cassell (MEd 2019) explores relationship between community college independence and local appropriations outcomes. The team compared local funding trends among…
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