Awards and Recognition

Below is a partial list of publications by the faculty in the last three years. Faculty names are in bold, while student/alumni names are underline.

• Ortagus, J., Tanner, M., & McFarlin, I. (2021). Can Re-Enrollment Campaigns Help Dropouts Return to College? Evidence from Florida Community Colleges. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
• Skinner, B. T., & Doyle, W. R. (2021). “Do civic returns to higher education differ across subpopulations? An analysis using propensity forests”. Journal of Education Finance.
• Mobley, S., Smith, T.C., Lee-Johnson, J. (2021) HBCUs are rising: The myths, the legends, the realties. In: R. Taylor & A. Kuntz (Eds) Equity, Freedom, and Inclusion in Higher Education.
• Sriram, R., Weintraub, S. D., Murray, J. L., Cheatle, J., Haynes, C., & Marquart, C. P. (2020). The influence of students’ academic, social, and deeper life interactions on their psychological sense of community. Journal of College Student Development, 61(5). 593-608. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766014
• Kramer II, D., & Ortagus, J., & Donovan, J. (2020). Competing for Bachelor’s Degrees: Are Community Colleges Cutting into the Market Share of Four-Year Institutions? American Educational Research Journal.
• Ortagus, J., Kelchen, R., Rosinger, K., & Voorhees, N. (2020). Performance-Based Funding in American Higher Education: A Systematic Synthesis of the Intended and Unintended Consequences. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
• Smith, T. C., (2020). A doctoral odyssey: Navigating family, culture, and community in a foreign land. In J. Van Galen, J. and J. Sablan (Eds.) Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power. Brill/Sense Publishers.
• Bowers, L., Harrington, K., Phelps-Ward, R., Smith, T. C., Allen, C., & Dosouza, N. (2020). #Mytruthmatters: Narratives of graduate students of color at a predominately white institution. Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research 14, 233-248.
• Sriram, R., Haynes, C., Cheatle, J., Marquart, C. P., Murray, J. L., & Weintraub, S. D. (2020). The development and validation of an instrument measuring academic, social, and deeper life interactions. Journal of College Student Development, 61(2), 240-245. 10.1353/csd.2020.0020
• Sriram, R., Haynes, C., Weintraub, S. D., Cheatle, J., Marquart, C. P., & Murray, J. L. (2020). Student demographics and experiences of deeper life interactions within residential learning communities. Learning Communities Research and Practice [Special issue on residential learning communities], 8(1), Article 8. https://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol8/iss1/8
• Baker, D. J., Skinner, B. T., & Redding, C. (2019). “Affirmative intervention to reduce stereotype threat bias: Experimental evidence from a community college.” The Journal of Higher Education.
• Haynes, C. (2019). Creating new metaphors for women engineering students through qualitative methods. The Qualitative Report, 24(7), 1805-1825.
  https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol24/iss7/20

Below is a partial list of grants by the faculty in the last three years. Faculty names are in bold, while student/alumni names are underline.

• Justin Ortagus, Principal Investigator, Lindsay Lynch Co-Principal Investigator, iConnect: Improving Access and Success in Information Technology Programs Through Education-Industry Connections, 2020-2023, National Science Foundation ($600,000).
• Travis Smith, Lead-PI 2020 Advancing Racial Justice Through Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access at the University of Florida $60,000
• Justin Ortagus, Principal Investigator, The Role and Influence of Online Degree Programs in Higher Education, 2021-2022, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, $87,458.
• Justin Ortagus, Co-Principal Investigator, Equity and Effectiveness of State Higher Education Funding Policies, 2020 – 2022, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $549,946.
• Justin Ortagus, Principal Investigator, An Examination of the Enrollment and Persistence Outcomes of the Florida College Student Re-Enrollment Demonstration, 2020 – 2021, Helios Education Foundation, $115,000.
• Justin Ortagus, Principal Investigator, National Evidence of Enrollment Shifts and Labor Market
  Outcomes Following the Great Recession, 2020, Laura and John Arnold Foundation,
  $36,968.
• Justin Ortagus, Co-Principal Investigator, Building New Evidence for Designing Performance-Based Funding Policies to Reduce Inequality, 2020 – 2021, William T. Grant Foundation,
  $25,000.
• Justin Ortagus, Principal Investigator, The Effects of Variations in Performance-Based Funding Policies on Student Access, Success, and Labor Market Outcomes, 2019 – 2021, Laura and John
  Arnold Foundation/Joyce Foundation, $373,590.
• Justin Ortagus, Principal Investigator, Examining the Impact of Variations in Performance-Based Funding Policies on Reducing Inequality in Student Outcomes, 2019 – 2020, William T. Grant Foundation, $204,528.

Below is a partial list of award received by the faculty in the last three years.

• Travis Smith was awarded the 2021 COE Faculty Diversity & Inclusion Award.
• Lindsay Lynch was awarded the 2021 Provost Travel & Development Funding Award.
• Cliff Haynes was awarded the 2020-2021 Rosser Educator Excellence Award.
• Cliff Haynes was awarded the 2020 Provost Travel & Development Funding Award
• Travis Smith was selected as a UF Black History Month Trailblazer, Black Graduate Student Organization.
• Travis Smith was selected 30 under 40 in Research and Scholarship Pan African Network, ACPA (2021).
• Cliff Haynes was awarded 2019 Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the UF Graduate Student Council for support in service of Graduate Students.
• Cliff Haynes was awarded the NASPA-FL 2019 Research Award from NASPA’s Florida state association.
• Justin Ortagus was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award (“40 Under 40”), University of Florida (2019)
• Justin Ortagus was awarded the Excellence Award for Assistant Professors from the University of Florida (2018).
• Cliff Haynes was awarded the Inaugural Blue Ribbon Online Course Designation from the University of Florida College of Education (2018).

Below is a partial list of dissertations by students in the last three years.

• Tres Loch (Spring 2021) Ed.D., A comparative case study of the experience and satisfaction of business management majors at a small, private liberal arts college and a large, public research institution.
• Rachael Elrod (Summer 2020). Ed.D., ”You feel like you’re walking blindly into it”: The experiences of library leaders and academic library
  renovations.
• Alexandra Bitton-Bailey (Fall 2020). Ph.D., A phenomenological study of new and early career faculty in an accelerated faculty learning
  community.
• Eric Coley (Fall 2020). Ed.D., Building interprofessional bridges: A qualitative study of what interprofessional education means to
  student physical therapists.
• Murielle Gammons (Fall 2020). Ph.D., Them in STEM: The persistence journey of surviving vast waters at predominantly White institutions
  for first-generation African American engineering students.
• Shayne Cade (Fall 2020). D.,  Persistence as a manifestation of motivation: A phenomenological exploration of motivation for first-generation college students who completed online baccalaureate degree programs.
• Brittany Matthews-Mijatovic. (Spring 2020). Ed.D., A phenomenological study on the enrollment decisions of high-achieving, low-income students enrolled in a community college.
• LB Hannahs. (Spring 2020). Ph.D., From the top down: An exploratory study of a diversity mandate.
• Tina Lamb. (Fall 2019). Ph.D., Three essays on postsecondary financial aid.
• Shari Crandall (Fall 2019). Ph.D., Life taught me to be independent: Former foster youth’s perceptions of adapting to college.
• Joseph Pickering. (Spring 2019). Ed.D., The impact of concealed carry legislation on Texas universities and colleges: Campus leaders’ and law enforcement perspectives.
• Ansa Reams-Johnson (Fall 2018). Ed.D., Building personal equity: A social capital analysis of African American administrators and mentorship practices
• Bhuvaneswari Gudapati. (Fall 2018). Ed.D., A phenomenological examination of the blended learning experiences of Caribbean community college students: An interpretation through the community of inquiry framework.

Below is a partial list of publications by the students in the last three years.

• Katherine Broom, Danica Mandarano, and Karmen Tovar (SPHE on campus) won 1st place in NASPA’s Annual Case Study Competition. The “Stormin’ Norman” team was advised by Travis Smith.
• Lauren Hughes (team leader), Elaine Rivera, Karley Taylor, Amy Wyer (SPHE on campus) won 2nd place in 20th Annual studentaffairs.com Virtual Case Study Competition.
• Danielle Shu, a master’s student in the online SPHE program, was awarded the William Leftwich Award for Outstanding New Professional in NASPA Region III (2021).
• Ikiah Young, a master’s student in the online SPHE program, was awarded the College of PHHP superior accomplishment award in 2020.

Below is a partial list of updates by alumni in the last three years.

• Dr. Monique Perry-Graves (Ed.D. 2013)  is the new statewide Executive Director for
  Teach for America (TFA), North Carolina, as of June 2021.
• Dr. Xiaodan Hu (Ph.D. 2017) won the 2018 Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) Dissertation of the Year.