Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Editorial Board:Ann Austin, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Nicholas A Bowman, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA Nicholas Hillman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA Shouping Hu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Adrianna Kezar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, USA Anne-Marie Nunez, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Christine Ogren, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Laura W. Perna (Editor-in-Chief), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Marvin Titus, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Marc VanOverbeke, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA   Laura W. Perna is Vice Provost for Faculty, GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education, and Executive Director of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Her research uses various methodological approaches to identify how social structures, educational practices, and public policies promote and limit college access and success, particularly for groups that are underrepresented in higher education. Recent publications include Improving research-based knowledge of college promise programs (with Edward Smith, 2020, AERA), Taking it to the streets: The role of scholarship in advocacy and advocacy in scholarship (2018, Johns Hopkins University Press), and The Attainment Agenda: State policy leadership for higher education (with Joni Finney, 2014, Johns Hopkins University Press). She has served as President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Vice President of the Postsecondary Division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and Chair of Penn’s Faculty Senate. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) and previously served as a member of the Gates Commission on the Value of Postsecondary Education and the Board of Directors for the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Among other honors, she has received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania, Early Career Achievement Award from ASHE, Excellence in Public Policy in Higher Education Award from ASHE’s Council on Public Policy and Higher Education, Dr. Constance Clayton Education Award from the Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable, and Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. She is also a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of AERA.  

Academic Procession: Bringing the History of Higher Education to Life.- Historical Considerations of Women and Gender in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature.- Whiteness beyond (just) white people: Exploring the interconnections among dimensions of whiteness in higher education.- Academic Freedom as a Professional, Constitutional, and Human Right:Contemporary Challenges and Directions for Research.- Getting to where we need to be: (Re)Envisioning Postsecondary Education through the Equity X Governance Paradigm.- Still striving, and for what? Centering equity in the study of prestige seeking in higher education.- Ph.D. Pathways to the Professoriate: Affordances and Constraints of Institutional Structures, Individual Agency, and Social Systems.- Reimagining Faculty Development: Activating Faculty Learning for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.- A Review of Vertical and Horizontal Transfer Student Transitions and Experiences.- Trigger Warnings: From Sword Fights to Campus Carry inHigher Education.- Bridging criminal justice scholarship into the field of higher education: Implications for research, practice, and policy.- An Evolving QuantCrit: The Quantitative Research Complex and a Theory of Racialized Quantitative Systems.