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Allan Adams
is the state director of the Georgia Small Business Development Center Network, a business extension program of the University of Georgia. From its eighteen locations, the SBDC program provides training and technical assistance to business owners and prospective entrepreneurs. His experience includes positions as an Associate Director at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government and as a staff member in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member of the Georgia Economic Developers Association, the Georgia Cities Foundation Advisory Board, and the National Association of Small Business Development Centers. His current research activity concerns implementation of the federal desegregation order for the University System of Georgia.
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Phil Allen
directs the Georgia LEADS (Lifelong Education and Economic Development Services) program in the University System of Georgia's Office of Economic Development. The program supports the System's efforts to broaden educational access, promote job growth, and coordinates System resources to support state and local workforce and professional development programs. Phil has more than 25 years experience in public service and outreach, community engagement and continuing education. His interests in the IHE program lie in the history of higher education, economic development, and organization and governance.
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Lauren Collier
served as the first executive director of South Carolina Campus Compact. She started the Office of Service-Learning at the College of Charleston where she supported faculty, facilitated campus/community partnerships, developed co-curricular service programs, and taught in Women's Studies and the First Year Experience. She earned an MSW from the University of Alabama, a BS from Birmingham-Southern College, worked in the nonprofit sector, and taught English in a college in Hungary. Scholarly interests include community impacts of student civic engagement and service-learning.
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John Cooper's
professional interests include transformational themes in higher education, management and strategy, business/organizational intelligence and organizational change. He received his B.A. in Psychology from University of South Carolina, and his M.S. in Student Affairs/Higher Education from Florida State University. John also serves on the Georgia Commission on Service and Volunteerism.
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Patrick Crane
earned his bachelor's degree in anthropology from Wesleyan University and his master's degree in higher education from the University of Oslo before coming to UGA in the Fall of 2006. His research interests revolve around the areas of internationalization, student mobility, regional development, organizational change and the history of higher education.
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David Dial
earned bachelor's degrees from Duke University in both Public Policy Studies and Classical Studies. He also earned an M.A. in Higher Education Student Affairs from Louisiana State University. Before joining the Institute, David worked in the Office of Student Integrity at Georgia Tech. He currently serves as an Academic Coach for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association. David's reasearch interests lie primarily with the role college athletics plays within modern higher education.
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Wes Fugate
earned his B.A. in economics and dramatic arts from Centre College and his M.Ed. in higher education administration from the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Currently, he serves as the advisor to the Interfraternity Council at UGA and serves as a national board member and dean of various leadership programs for the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Prior to moving to Georgia, Wes served as the deputy chief of staff for planning and education policy to the governor of Kentucky. Wes' research interests include public policy and the organization, governance, strategy and behaviors of higher education institutions, particularly as it relates to communication strategy.
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Stephanie Hazel
earned an MA in Higher Education from the University of Arizona, and MAT and BS degrees from Oregon State University. Her previous work in universities includes program development and evaluation, community service learning, grant writing, curriculum development, professional education, and academic advising. Scholarly interests include the political economy of higher education, including faculty and administrative labor and issues of gender, race, and class in higher education; post-secondary curriculum and assessment; and qualitative research methods.
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Anthony Jones
comes to UGA by way of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC, where he has been working as a policy analyst for the student financial aid programs in the Office of Postsecondary Education. Previously, he worked for NASFAA and in the financial aid offices of three different colleges and universities. He earned a B.A. in Speech Communication Studies from UNC Greensboro and an M.A. in Adult Education from Tusculum College. His research interests include student financial aid policy and curriculum development.
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Morgan Jones
earned a B.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M University and a M.A. in Counseling from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to coming to the Institute, Morgan worked as the assistant director of University Advising at the University of Texas at Arlington. She currently works as a graduate assistant with the Governor's Teaching Fellows Program.
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Dennis A. Kramer II
earned a B.A. in social and clinical psychology at San Diego State University (SDSU) and an M.Ed. in postsecondary administration and student affairs at the University of Southern California (USC). His scholarly interests center on: (1) the impact sport and popular culture have on educational policy, pedagogy and organization; (2) higher education finance and economics; and (3) the intersection between university governance and the commercialization of higher education. Dennis currently works as a graduate assistant/staff consultant for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics along with tutoring student-athletes at UGA.
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Kangjoo Lee
came from South Korea. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Education, both from the Seoul National University. Prior to attending UGA, Kangjoo had ten years research experience in education policy and program evaluation projects at the Seoul National University . Currently, he is a graduate assistant to analyze college graduation rate and student engagement survey for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. His dissertation is exploring disciplinary and institutional effects on productivity and workload of faculty by using multilevel multivariate modeling.
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Heidi Leming
earned an MA Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Virginia Tech and a BS degree from Minnesota State University — Moorhead. Her professional career has been in student affairs in the administration of student programming, student organizations, Greek Life, leadership programs, recreational sports, community service, and residence life. Currently, Heidi is a graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at UGA. Her research interests include: transition issues of first year students, university governance and organizational change, civic engagement, service-learning and other pedagogical practices.
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Christine Miller
is Assistant Dean and Director for Information Technology at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA. She earned her MA in instructional technology and her BA in English from UGA.
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Lisette Montoto
is a third year doctoral student at the Institute of Higher Education and holds a Master's degree in Spanish from Florida State University. She works as a Graduate Assistant in The Office of International Public Service and Outreach, focusing on projects related to Latin America and Latino initiatives. Her research interests focus on issues of cross-border higher education and economic development.
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Jaynefrances W. Nabawanuka
is a second-year Ph.D student at the Institute of Higher Education. She hails from Uganda where she earned her LL.B at Makerere University in 1995. Jayne also holds an LL.M in commercial law from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In 1996 she earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and was enrolled as an advocate to practice law in Uganda. After several years of practicing law, she joined Makerere University in 1999 as general legal counsel, a position she held until 2007 when she joined the Institute. Her interests are in policy and governance in higher education as well as higher education and the law.
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Isaiah O'Rear's
research interest is in higher education access for rural, low-income students springs from living in small towns in over ten states. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Wesleyan University and his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Georgia. As an M.A. student, Isaiah presented at national conferences arguing for a policy analysis framework which bridges the gap between normatively-sophisticated post-Rawlsian political philosophy and the empirically-sophisticated economics-based Public Policy field. He employs this framework in examining issues of access.
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Yarbrah T. Peeples
earned an MS in Higher Education from Florida State University and a BS and MBA from Florida A&M University. Prior to attending UGA Yarbrah was an academic program specialist with the TRIO Student Support Services Program at Florida State University. Her professional interests included examining organizational theory and behavior related to historically black colleges and universities and higher education access and success issues related to first generation, low-income, and minority students. Currently, Yarbrah is a research assistant for Dr. Libby Morris in the Institute for Higher Education.
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Scott Rizzo
earned his B.A. in History from the University of Florida and an M.Ed. in Higher Education Leadership from Florida Atlantic University. Prior to his arrival at UGA, Scott served as Coordinator of Testing & Evaluation at Florida Atlantic. His research interests are focused on issues in intercollegiate athletics as well as how the history of higher education impacts colleges today.
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Maurice Saavedra
is from Ecuador. He earned a Masters of Science in Higher Education Administration from the University of Kansas. Prior to that, he worked in Ecuador for seven years teaching, coordinating, and directing various ESL courses in different private and public universities. Maurice is interested in measurement and research methods, as well strategic planning and institutional research. His assistantship is in the Office of Institutional Research at UGA.
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Welch Suggs
is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on gender issues in student populations. A senior editor for The Chronicle of Higher Education from 2002 to 2005, he also served as associate director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics from 2005-2007. He is author of one book, A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX (Princeton University Press, 2005) and co-author of another, Medallion of the Black Hound (Harper & Row, 1998). As assistant to University President Adams, Suggs works with facilities and construction projects and liaises with the Athletic Association.
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Khoi Dinh To's
professional interests are in dducational finance, management, and academic evaluation. He earned an MBA in corporate finance and worked for the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Vietnam before coming to UGA.
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Kyle Tschepikow
is currently the assistant director of Assessment in the Division of Student Affairs at UGA. He received a B.A. in English Literature from Henderson State University in Arkansas and an M.A. in the same subject from the University of Wales, Bangor in Great Britain. Kyle's research interests include assessment and institutional research.
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Leasa Weimer
earned her Master's degree in the European Erasmus Mundus joint degree program where she studied at a different European institution each semester: University of Oslo, Norway, University of Tampere, Finland, and the University of Aveiro, Portugal. During the summer months she worked at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Prior to her international sojourns, Leasa worked at the University of Colorado at Boulder for 10 years in student activities, alumni relations, and parent relations. Besides traveling the world and perfecting her telemark skiing turns, her research interests include: the foreign student market, European regional HE efforts, U.S. federal educational exchange efforts, and international comparative HE reform efforts.
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Adam Wyatt
earned his B.A. in French and M.Ed. in Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs, both from the University of Southern California. He has three primary areas of interest: 1) strategy, management, and organizational change, 2) institutional identities, and 3) the effects of globalization and internationalization on higher education. He uses comparative approaches to study these issues in universities in the U.S., Europe, and Northern Africa. Adam's current research focuses on the rhetoric of internationalization and the proliferation of professional graduate degree programs.
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Yang Yang
is from China. She earned her B.A. in English from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and her M.Ed. in TESOL from Boston University. She was an English instructor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law before she came to U.S.. Her research interests include management of higher education institutions, institutional research, and issues in policy and finance in higher education. Currently, she is working on her dissertation on institutional management in response to economic crisis.
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