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SHEEO President Gives EPS

On Friday, March 6, President of SHEEO Rob Anderson spoke at IHE on the role and strategic directions of SHEEO.  SHEEO partners with chief higher-education executives of state-wide governing and coordinating boards, acts as a liaison between state and federal governments, and provides information and analysis on higher education policy issues. He noted that the executives and staffs served by SHEEO represent a variety of higher education…
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Jens Jungblut
To Join or Not to Join? The Case of the International Association of Universities

On Friday, January 17, Jens Jungblut of the University of Oslo presented an EPS entitled, To Join or Not to Join? The Case of the International Association of Universities. The talk focused on his recent research into membership characteristics of the International Association of Universities (IAU) among the word’s institutions of higher education. Jungblut started his inquiry wondering why the low rate of membership in this meta-…
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Maurice Shirley
Shirley Examines Impact of Working through College

Maurice Shirley visited with faculty and students at the Institute on Tuesday, June 11. In addition to a roundtable discussion with students, Dr. Shirley presented a lecture outlining his professional background and research on the effects of employment on college student outcomes. While the percentage of high school students employed is lower and shows a downward trend, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates a dramatic shift occurs…
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George Spencer Presentation
Spencer Compares Statewide Policies that Encourage Associate Degree Completion

On March 20, George Spencer of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University shared his AERA-funded research project looking at the impact of statewide articulation agreements on associate degree completion rates in his presentation “College Student Mobility and the Role of Statewide Articulation Policies.” Dr. Spencer selected five states of the thirty-one with legislation specifically credentialing…
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Burt Explores Factors Influencing Persistence and Success among Black Engineering Students

Brian Burt, assistant professor of higher education at Iowa State University, shared the research underpinning his article in American Educational Research Journal, "It Takes a Village: The Role of Emic and Etic Adaptive Strengths in the Persistence of Black Men in Engineering Graduate Programs” that was released in the fall 2018. Dr. Burt spoke at the Institute on March 8 to an audience the included colleagues from across the university, who…
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Allen Discusses IDEAS Concept with IHE Community

Drew Allen, the executive director of the Initiative for Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEAS) for Higher Education at Princeton University, visited Meigs Hall on March 4. Dr. Allen discussed the emerging role of the IDEAS program and how it complements the work performed by other units on campus, Institutional Research and IT, which also have robust data analytics portfolios. IDEAS is situated in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and…
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Roksa Shares Research on Role of Family on Student Outcomes

Josipa Roksa, professor of Sociology & Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, gave a seminar entitled "Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students: The Role of Family Support," at IHE on February 25. She spoke on the ways family support effect student outcomes. Dr. Roksa's current research focuses on understanding the experiences and outcomes of…
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Marvin Titus Presents EPS: 12:00 in Room 101

The title of his presentation is "Degree Production and Cost Efficiency: An Application of Stochastic Frontier and Spatial Analysis." Dr. Marvin Titus will present the first Education Policy Seminar for the 2015-16 academic year. He is associate professor of higher education at the University of Maryland. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and history from York College of the City University of New York, masters in economics at the…
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