Department Achievements
Higher Education Students and Faculty to Present at ASHE Conference
Several students and faculty members in the higher education program will present their work at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. The conference will be held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada in November. Be sure not to miss the following presentations:
- Audrey J. Jaeger, KerryAnn O’Meara, Penny Pasque & Elaine Ward. Simposia: Civic action and the classroom: How and what contexts classroom experiences enhance civic behavior.
- Corbin Campbell & KerryAnn O’Meara. Roundtable. Institutional research and Higher Education Programs: Collaborating on research, teaching, and service.
- John J. Cheslock, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Brian McCall, Scott Thomas, Marvin A. Titus, & Liang Zhang. Symposia. Multilevel Models in Higher Education Research: A Promising but still Underutilized Approach.
- KerryAnn O’Meara, Audrey J. Jaeger & Dwight E. Giles. Civic action and the classroom: How and what contexts classroom experiences enhance civic behavior.
- Marvin Titus, Sean Simone, Anubha Gupta, and Paulina Pérez Mejías. Investigating State Appropriations and Net Tuition Revenue for Public Higher Education: A Vector Error Correction Modeling Approach.
- Noah Drezner. Black College Endowments & the Financial Crisis: Historic Neglect, Contemporary Complications.
- Shaquana Anderson. Understanding the Mystery Behind the Magic: College Culture within an Urban High School.
- Sharon Fries-Britt, Toyia Younger & Khadish O. Franklin. What faculty say and convey matters: Interactions with minority students and faculty in science.
- Wendell Hall, Alberto Cabrera & Jeffrey Milem. A Tale of two Groups: Differences between Minorities and Non-Minorities in their Predispositions to and Engagement with Diverse Peers at a Predominantly White Institution
Helene Cohen is Awarded Two Technology Grants
Visiting Assistant Professor Helene Cohen has been awarded two grants for her work on using technology in education:
1. EXPANDING THE TOOLKIT: Innovative Teaching with Technology, from the Center for Teaching Excellence
2. NO TEACHER LEFT ALONE: Supporting and Sustaining Professional Learning Communities in PDSs, from the University System of Maryland
Two CASE Awards Received
Assistant Professor Noah D. Drezner (EDHI - Higher Education) was recently awarded the coveted 2009 H.S. Warwick Award for Outstanding Research in Alumni Relations for Educational Advancement for his dissertation, Cultivating a Culture of Giving: An Exploration of Institutional Strategies to Enhance African American Young Alumni Giving, by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Additionally, Noah is an associate editor of an ASHE reader on Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Volunteerism in Higher Education which was named the 2009 CASE John Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Educational Advancement.
Steven Klees Named Endowed Professor
of International and Comparative Education
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COLLEGE PARK, MD (April 2009) – The College of Education is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Steven Klees (Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education) as the Harold R.W. Benjamin Professor of International and Comparative Education. Reserved for an eminent scholar whose work substantially advances the discipline, an endowed professorship is one of the highest honors a college can bestow.
"Professor Klees' national recognition in international education, his career contribution to the knowledge base of comparative education, and his strong reputation for providing mentorship and guidance to students are indicative of the high standards he brings to the professorship," said Donna Wiseman, dean of the College.
Currently the director of his department's International Education Policy program, Klees was a two-time Fulbright Scholar at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. Before joining the University of Maryland, he taught at Cornell University, Stanford University, Florida State University, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. In addition, he worked extensively for such organizations as UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and USAID. He also collaborated with a variety of state governments and non-governmental organizations concerning education in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
"I am very honored to be named the inaugural holder of the Benjamin Professorship," said Klees. "It is a mark of the importance of international education to the College and University that this position exists. Education around the world is in difficult, and often dire, straits. The Benjamin Professorship will support and facilitate my research about the need to improve education policy and the ways in which we might do so."
Klees' research interests cover education policy and practice in the United States, as well as that in other countries. His scholarship has focused on the political economy of educational policy and social change, particularly on the nature of educational and social inequalities and what is needed to overcome them. He has published extensively on a variety of related topics, including the situation of disadvantaged children and the policies of international institutions like the World Bank.
The Benjamin Professorship is supported by the Harold R.W. Benjamin National Memorial Fund–an endowed fund created in 1969 with gifts from individuals who were "educated, loved and inspired" by the late Harold Benjamin, who served two terms as dean of the College.
"It is appropriate that this professorship is named in honor of Dr. Benjamin, who understood the importance of an international perspective for educators, and I am extremely grateful for the donors' vision," said Dean Wiseman. "Professor Klees' appointment serves as yet another indication of the College's strong commitment to international and comparative education, which is an essential aspect of a 21st century educational approach and a key development in the College's strategic initiatives."
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