Teaching

Graduate courses

ELP 390S: Social and Cultural Contexts of Education University of Texas at Austin — Spring 2023 Graduate seminar examining the social, economic, and political contexts in which schools, districts, colleges, and universities operate, and how race, immigrant status, social class, gender, and (dis)ability shape students' experiences and outcomes across the P–20 continuum.

ELP 384H: Educational Policy Implementation University of Texas at Austin — Spring 2022 Graduate course exploring theoretical frameworks and empirical approaches for studying the implementation of educational policies.

ELP 392P: Advanced Quantitative Research Design and Analysis University of Texas at Austin — Fall 2018–2023 Graduate course covering quantitative methodologies common in educational research — linear and logistic regression, multilevel modeling, and techniques for causal inference.

EOL 570: Organization in Higher Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Fall 2015 Core graduate course on American higher education as both a system and a field of study: organizational patterns, stakeholders, governance, and the purposes of higher education.

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Doctoral student advising

(UT Austin unless otherwise noted)

• Donna Wallis (Co-Chair) — Executive EdD, Higher Education Leadership, 2026 (expected)
• Tasneem Sultana — PhD, Higher Education Leadership and Policy, 2026 (expected)
• Karissa Jobman — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2026 (expected)
• Franchesca Lyra — PhD, STEM Education, 2027 (expected)
• Rashi Agarwal — PhD, STEM Education, 2027 (expected)
• Catalina Vasquez — PhD, Higher Education Leadership and Policy, 2027 (expected)
• Toufic Chahin — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2025
• Margaret Cosby — EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Houston, 2025
• Desiree Le — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2024
• Kaitlin Ogden — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2024
• Garrett Groves — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2023
• Mic Fenech — PhD, STEM Education, 2023
• Casey Brown — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2021
• Ibrahim Bicak — PhD, Program in Higher Education Leadership, 2021
• Kaitlin Bernell — PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, 2020