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Columbia University
Organization & Leadership Department

Higher and Postsecondary Education
Room 206 MH, 525 W 120th Street , Box 101
New York, New York 10027
Phone: 212-678-3750
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Welcome to the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program

Program Information: Student Presentations

2008

 MILAGROS CASTILLO

  • The Power of Gestures: Interpretations of the Black and Latino Doctoral Experience (with Pamela Felder-Thompson). Presenter, The Multiple Experiences of Doctoral Students Across Disciplines.  American Educational Research Association, March 28, 2008.

ANDREW LEGRAND

  • “From Sunrise to Sunset: Supreme Constitutional Interpretation Leading to the Dissolution of Race Conscious Decision-Making”. Presenter, 30 Years After Bakke, 10 Years After The Shape of the River and 5 Years After Grutter and Gratz: The Reshaping of Affirmative Action. American Educational Research Association, March 26, 2008.

REBECCA NATOW

  • Performance Funding Through Theoretical Lenses: Examining the Applicability of the Advocacy Coalition Framework. (with Kevin Dougherty) ASHE, Nov. 8, 2008
  • The Politics of Performance Funding: The Relevance of State Relative Autonomy and Institutionalist Theories (with Kevin Dougherty). Presenter, External Influences of Institutional Expenditure, Revenue, and Organization in Higher Education. American Educational Research Association, March 27, 2008.

 KENNY NIENHUSSER

  • Undocumented Immigrants and College Access: The Origin and Consequences of In-State Tuition Policy, (with Kevin Dougherty and Blanca Vega), ASHE, Nov. 5, 2008

MONICA REID

  • Building a Culture of Evidence in Community Colleges: A Study of Data Use for Program Improvement (with Davis Jenkins).  ASHE.  Nov. 8, 2008.
  • Findings from Survey Research. Presenter, Building a Culture of Evidence in Community Colleges: Lessons from Recent Research. American Educational Research Association, March 25, 2008.

BLANCA VEGA

  • Undocumented Immigrants and College Access: The Origin and Consequences of In-State Tuition Policy, (with Kevin Dougherty and H. Kenny Nienhusser), ASHE, Nov. 5, 2008.

2007

SOSANYA JONES

  • Visible Leaders:  Multicultural administrators in the Literature of Higher Education, (with Leslie Williams). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November, 2007.
  • Critical Approaches to Promote Black Youth Development. Discussant, American Educational Research Association, April 10, 2007.
  • Educational Access: Factors and Issues that Impact African Americans and Other Students of Color. Chair, American Educational Research Association, April 11, 2007.
  • The Effect of School Racial Composition on College Student Volunteerism & Civic Engagement. American Educational Research Association, April 13, 2007.

ANDREW LEGRAND

  • “Do as I say…” - Parental Involvement and Black Educational Achievement. American Educational Research Association, April 13, 2007.

FRANCES MAGEE

  • Joint Conference, American College Personnel Association and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, March 2007.

REBECCA NATOW

  • The Politics of Performance Funding: Its Origins and Sometimes Demise in Three States (with Kevin Dougherty). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2007.

TAMSYN PHIFER

  • Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research Universities (with Anna Neumann and Aimee LaPointe Terosky). American Educational Research Association, April 2007.
  • Joint Conference, American College Personnel Association and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Orlando, Florida. March 2007.

MONICA REID

  • Data Demands: Lessons from Community Colleges. American Educational Research Association, April 10, 2007.

JULIE SCHELL

  • Coming out in College. The Julliard School in New York City, Women’s History Month Panels, April 2007.

LESLIE WILLIAMS

  • Invisible Leaders:  Multicultural administrators in the Literature of Higher Education, (with Sosanya Jones). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November, 2007.
  • The Impact of High School After-school Supplementary Education Programs on the Bachelors Degree Completion of Urban Students of Color. American Educational Research Association, April 13, 2007.

 2006

 JENNIFER HONG

  • Learning in the borderlands:  Korean-American Women undergraduates’ experiences between campus and home. Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2006.  

 SOSANYA JONES

  • When the State Isn't There: A Glimpse at One Minority Program's Innovative Survival After State Budget Cuts. American Educational Research Association, April 7, 2006.
  • Associated Effects of Home Institution Type on Undergraduate Minority Students’ Perceptions of a Summer Research Program with Henry T. Frierson (The University of North Carolina) and Nicole Lewis (The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.
  • Developing African-American Scientists: Elementary School to Postsecondary Successes.  Chair. American Educational Research Association, April 9, 2006

RIVA KADAR

  • Outstanding Dissertation Award, Division J Post Secondary Education Paper Presentation: Peer Mentoring Relationships:  Toward a Non-Hierarchical Mentoring Approach for Women Faculty. American Educational Research Association, April 2006.

FRANCES MAGEE

  • Qualitative Research Analysis: An In-Out process (with Anabella Martinez). Ways of Knowing in Educational Research Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, March 2006.

ANABELLA MARTINEZ

  • Qualitative Research Analysis: An In-Out process (with Frances Magee). Ways of Knowing in Educational Research Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, March 2006. 

KENNY NIENHUSSER

  • States of Community College Policymaking: Explaining State Differences in Extent and Foci of Policymaking (with Kevin Dougherty and Monica Reid). American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.
  • The Racial Politics of Higher Education Policymaking (with Kevin Dougherty and Monica Reid). American Educational Research Association, April 11, 2006.
  • States of Community College Policymaking: Explaining State Differences in Extent and Foci of Policymaking (with Kevin Dougherty and Monica Reid). American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.

TAMSYN PHIFER

  • Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research Universities (with Anna Neumann and Aimee LaPointe Terosky). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2006.

MONICA REID

  • Institutional Research in Community Colleges (with Vanessa Smith Morest, Andrea Soonachan, Tim Leinbach, and Peter Crosta). American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.
  • States of Community College Policymaking: Explaining State Differences in Extent and Foci of Policymaking (with Kevin Dougherty and Kenny Nienhusser). American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.
  • The Racial Politics of Higher Education Policymaking (with Kevin Dougherty and Kenny Nienhusser). American Educational Research Association, April 11, 2006.

JULIE SCHELL

  • The Transgendered Professoriate: A New Frontier in Education Research in the Public Interest. Paper awarded the Scholarship-Activist Award for Graduate Student Travel. American Educational Research Association, April 2006.
  • It is Nonsense: FAP Barnard and Male Medical Opinions of Women’s Higher Education in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York State Historical Society Conference, June 2006.
  • Perils of the Pioneer in Education Research (with Andrea Soonachan). Ways of Knowing in Educational Research Conference, Sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, March 2006.

ANDREA SOONACHAN

  • Institutional Research in Community Colleges (with Vanessa Smith Morest, Monica Reid, Tim Leinbach, and Peter Crosta). American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.

LESLIE WILLIAMS

  • Cultures of Reflection and Reflection in Culture: Cross-Cultural Study of Teachers' Reflective Actions in Russian and American Dewey Schools (with Elina Lampert-Shepel).  American Educational Research Association, April 8, 2006.

2005

KERRY CHARRON

  • Taking It Personally: Rethinking the Personal-Professional Divide in Academic Work, Insights from a Study of the Early Post-Tenure Career (with Anna Neumann and Julie Schell). American Educational Research Association, April 2005.

RIVA KADAR

  •  Peer-Mentoring Relationships:  Toward a Non-Hierarchical Mentoring Approach for Women Faculty. Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.

FRANCES MAGEE

  • Concentric Learning:  What University Professors learn, from within Their Work with Students, about Students‚ Learning (with Anna Neumann and Anabella Martinez). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • When the Student is the Teacher: How Professors Engage with Students to Improve Practices. Symposium, (with Anna Neumann, Anabella Martinez, and Aimee LaPointe Terosky). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • Opportunities to Even Out the Odds:  University Professors Constructing Research as Pedagogical Settings (with Anna Neumann and Anabella Martinez). American Educational Research Association, April 2005.

ANABELLA MARTINEZ

  • Concentric Learning:  What University Professors learn, from within Their Work with Students, about Students‚ Learning (with Anna Neumann and Anabella Martinez). Association for the Study of Higher Education, Philadelphia, November 2005.
  • When the Student is the Teacher: How Professors Engage with Students to Improve Practices. Symposium, (with Anna Neumann, Anabella Martinez, and Aimee LaPointe Terosky). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • Opportunities to Even Out the Odds:  University Professors Constructing Research as Pedagogical Settings (with Anna Neumann and Anabella Martinez). American Educational Research Association, April 2005.

KIMBERLY BOULANGER PEREIRA

  • Strategic Learning: University Professors Activating Agency in the Early Post-Tenure Career (with Anna Neumann). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • Managing the Doing and the “Learning to Do”: Agency Activation in the Early Post-Tenure Career (with Anna Neumann). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.

JULIE SCHELL

  • Taking It Personally: Rethinking the Personal-Professional Divide in Academic Work, Insights from a Study of the Early Post-Tenure Career (with Anna Neumann and Kerry Charron). American Educational Research Association, April 2005.

SUNNY PARK SUH

  • New Perspectives on Academic Administration. Chair, Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • Characteristics of Asian Pacific American Student Affairs Administrators: Implications for Practice in Higher Education. Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.

AIMEE LAPOINTE TEROSKY

  • Taking teaching seriously: A study of university professors and their undergraduate teaching.  Paper presented at the Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award session at Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • When the Student is the Teacher: How Professors Engage with Students to Improve Practices. Symposium (with Anna Neumann, Anabella Martinez, and Frances Magee). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • The Good and the Bad: University Professors’ Perceptions on What Helps and Hinders Taking Teaching Seriously. Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2005.
  • A framework for all professors: Lessons learned from university professors who take teaching seriously. American Educational Research Association, April 2005.
  • Four habits of highly successful teacher-researchers. Meeting of the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center, April 2005.

2004

KERRY CHARRON

  • Images of Inclusivity at American Community Colleges (with Julie Schell).American Educational Research Association, April 2004.
  • Enhancing the Visibility and Credibility of Research on GLBT Issues and American Community Colleges (with Julie Schell). American Educational Research Association April 2004.

JENNIFER HONG

  • Professing to teach and learn: University professors’ learning in teaching in the early post-tenure career (with Anna Neumann and Aimee LaPoint Teroksy). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2004.

 RIVA KADAR

  • Peer-Mentoring Relationships:  Toward a Non-Hierarchical Mentoring Approach for Women Faculty. American Educational Research Association, April 2004.
  • “I get by with a little help from my friends”: Exploring recently tenured university professors’ experiences of colleagueship (with Anna Neumann and Aimee LaPointe Terosky). American Educational Research Association, April 2004.
  • Creating Careers: The Inter-Personal Construction of Recently Tenured University Professors’ Careers, Co-author with Aimee LaPointe Terosky. American Educational Research Association, April 2004.

JULIE SCHELL

  • The Creations of the Intellectual Life Course: Research, Teaching, and Scholarly Philanthropy. Ways of Knowing in Educational Research Conference, Sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, March 2004.
  • Enhancing the Visibility and Credibility of Research on GLBT Issues and American Community Colleges (with Frances Mage). American Educational Research Association, April 2004.
  • Images of Inclusivity at American Community Colleges (with Kerry Charron). American Educational Research Association, April 2004.

AIMEE LAPOINTE TEROSKY

  • Taking teaching seriously: A study of university professors and their undergraduate teaching. Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2004.
  • Professing to teach and learn: University professors’ learning in teaching in the early post-tenure career (with Anna Neumann and Jennifer Hong). Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 2004.
  • Creating Careers: The Inter-Personal Construction of Recently Tenured University Professors’ Careers, Co-author with Riva Kadar. American Educational Research Association, April 2004.
Updated 11-17-08