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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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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Webber Featured at AIR Knowledge Exchange Event

Karen Webber and co-editor Henry Zheng led a recent AIR Knowledge Exchange Event to share information from their book, Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education. The panel presentation aired on Tuesday, November 24 from 3-4pm. Christine Keller, executive director & CEO of the Association for Institutional Research moderated the event. Check out more opportunities to view Knowledge Exchange events at:…

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IHE at ASHE 2020

The theme of this year's ASHE virtual conference is "Advancing Full Participation," and the IHE community has responded in a big way. Check out the sessions below. More information at https://www.ashe.ws/schedule2020.  IHE is a proud ASHE 2020 breakout room sponsor. Preconference Programming The Landscape of Performance-Based Funding Policies (Paper co-written by Alex Cassell, MEd 2019, et al.) PBF Policy Design and College Access and…
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Webber Discusses Actionable Analytics at NACUBO

Karen Webber is part of the opening panel session on November 9 for NACUBO’s virtual Integrated Analytics Planning Conference. The session is titled Actionable Analytics for Changing Times and includes additional panel members Henry Zheng, and Carrie Klein. The panelists will discuss ways that higher education leaders can leverage data to meet their institutions’ goals in a constantly evolving environment charged by budget cuts and pandemic…
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New Book by Karen Webber Released

A new book on the use of data analytics, edited by Karen Webber and Henry Y. Zheng, has been released by Johns Hopkins Press. Using a series of focused discussions and case studies, Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education, helps readers understand how analytics can support major organizational functions in higher education, including admission decisions, retention and enrollment management,…

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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 (…
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