Revised with updated links to job post for IHE faculty position
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IHE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2021
Dear IHE graduates and friends,
We lost a great champion earlier this month with the passing of Dr. Louise McBee. Dr. McBee served as a senior administrator at UGA for many years before her election to the Georgia General Assembly. In addition to the professorship created in her honor, we benefited from her support of the Governor's Teaching Fellows program. I invite each of you to read the UGA Today article on her career in and support of higher education in Georgia.
As we send this out, the Institute community also mourns the passing of former director Del Dunn and Marcel Fincher, daughter of long-time IHE director Cameron Fincher. We truly have benefited from inspirational leadership throughout our history.
As we build on this legacy, we invite your assistance in recruiting candidates for our new assistant professor position and for a talented and diverse cadre of GCAC advisers. Please forward this email or specific links below to your colleagues.
Libby V. Morris
Director,
Institute of Higher Education
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Join Our Online Forums
March 24 @ 7:00PM - Between the Pages Virtual Book Club: In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (ABJ '63)
Meet and learn from Hunter-Gault herself through the UGA community reading program. Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist, lecturer and one of the first two Black students to enroll at the University of Georgia. Sponsored by the UGA Alumni Association.
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l-r: Ed Lee III, Dominique Quarles, and Tiffanie Spencer
April 22 @ noon - Toward More Racially Equitable Campus Communities: A Panel Discussion with DEI Leaders
IHE welcomes back three graduates engaged in diversity, equity, and inclusion on their campuses to share their experiences and strategies for all in higher education spaces.
Webinar moderated by Dr. George C. Spencer, Jr. and featuring:
- Dr. Ed Lee III
- Dr. Dominique Quarles
- Dr. Tiffanie Spencer
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April 30 @ 1:00 - Strategic Change in Private Colleges
Zoomtable with Dr. Hearn
Our Zoomtables are forums for our graduates and students to meet and discuss a current challenges in higher education. Our faculty moderators frame the topic with a short overview of research and practices before opening the floor to all participants to ask questions and offer responses.
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March 19-
Dr. Jeffrey Harding "The Vastly Under-valued Importance of Being a Good Data Janitor"
(offered by the Research Roundtable)
March 12-
Dr. Karen Webber "Data Analytics for Decision Making in Higher Education" at the Edge Summit
February 26-
Dr. Juanita Hicks "Graduate Education through the Decades: The Impact of Mary Frances Early"(offered by UGA Graduate School)
February 8-
Dr. Eddie Cole "The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom"
(offered as part of the IHE Critical Issues on Race series)
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GCAC Advisers Continue to Give
GCAC advisers share their reasons for serving.
Our GCAC program is recruiting 2021/22 advisers! We seek service-minded recent college graduates to work in high schools across Georgia to lead low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students to college. We are looking for individuals from diverse backgrounds who are friendly, self-motivated, and passionate about our mission to join our team.
Please forward the flyer below and help us find more amazing advisers.
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Trailblazers at the Institute
Dr. Roy Jones was IHE's first Black graduate. His 1981 dissertation was a foundational study researching important minority issues, and the Institute of Higher Education continues today to research areas of diversity, equity, access, and student outcomes.
As a Clemson faculty member since 2003 and lifelong educator, Jones has been a nationally recognized scholar and advocate for minority teachers at all levels of education and for underrepresented and underserved students, families and communities in South Carolina and across the nation.
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Faculty Contributions Recognized
l-r: Greg Wolniak, Amy Stich, Karen Webber, George C. Spencer, Rob Toutkoushian, and Libby V. Morris
Please circulate our advertisement for an assistant professor to join our outstanding faculty.
Since December, several faculty members have posted major news.
- Associate Professor Greg Wolniak and Assistant Professor Amy Stich earned tenure this year. Dr. Stich also was promoted to associate professor, effective August 1, 2021.
- Dr. Karen Webber retired at the end of 2020, but she remains actively engaged through her recent NSF-funded grant (with Dr. Stich), dissertation committees, guiding master's capstones, and presentations.
- Dr. Rob Toutkoushain stepped down as editor of Research in Higher Education after 10 years at the helm. During his tenure, he reviewed more than 5,000 submissions, and the journal saw substantial growth in the number of submissions and improvements in acceptance rates.
- Dr. George Spencer received a Russell Sage-Gates Pipeline Grant to study the extent to which losing financial aid affects student mobility and degree completion and the potential consequences of retention requirements for merit-based grant programs.
- Dr. Libby Morris received the 2021 Faculty Service Award from the UGA Alumni Association.
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