Ph.D. Program in Higher Education (GSE)

Ph.D. Program in Higher Education

Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director: Ebelia Hernández (848-932-0844; Email: ebelia.hernandez@gse.rutgers.edu)

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For a complete list of program faculty, please visit Higher Education Faculty in this catalog.

The Ph.D. in higher education at Rutgers University offers focused study of the complexities of colleges and universities, their missions, contexts, challenges, and successes. This interdisciplinary degree program brings together distinguished higher education scholars representing the Graduate School of Education (GSE), the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (BSPPP), the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), the School of Communication and Information (SC&I), the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), and the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). Affiliated faculty members are higher education experts in the fields of, for example: education, law, communication, organizational studies, public policy, and economics.

Introduction

The Ph.D. in higher education program prepares higher education researchers who will take their scholarship, knowledge, and research skills into a range of higher education settings such as universities and colleges, state governing and coordinating boards, federal government, independent higher education organizations, consulting groups, not-for-profit organizations, and foundations.

Faculty

Stephanie Brescia, B.A., Villanova; Ed.M., Ph.D., Rutgers

Clark Chinn, Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

Joan Collier, Ph.D., Georgia

Cara Cuite, Ph.D., Rutgers

Monica Devanas, Ph.D., Rutgers

Adrienne Eaton, Ph.D., Wisconsin

Richard Edwards, Ph.D., SUNY, Albany

Nichole Garcia, Ph.D., California

Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., Indiana

Gary Gigliotti, Ph.D., Columbia

Ralph Gigliotti, Ph.D., Rutgers

Robert Heffernan, Ph.D., New York University

Ebelia Hernandez, Ph.D., Indiana

Benjamin Justice, Ph.D., Stanford

Michael Klein, Ph.D., New York

Jerome Kukor, Ph.D., Michigan

Susan Lawrence, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Barbara Lee, Ph.D., Ohio; J.D., Georgetown

Beth Leech, Ph.D., Texas A&M

Melinda Mangin, Ph.D., Rutgers

Richard McCormick, Ph.D., Yale

Lawrence Nespoli, Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Angela O'Donnell, Ph.D., Texas Christian

Brent Ruben, Ph.D., Iowa

Sharon Ryan, Ph.D., Columbia

Jorge Schement, Ph.D., Stanford

Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Susan Schurman, Ph.D., Michigan

Hana Shepherd, Ph.D., Princeton

Linda Stamato, New York University

Karen Stubaus, Ph.D., Rutgers

Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke, Ph.D., Florida

Carl Van Horn, Ph.D., Ohio State

Michelle Van Noy, Ph.D., Columbia

Dayna Weintraub, Ph.D., California

Melissa Wooten, Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)