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Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Faculty:C's
Timothy Reese Cain
Assistant Professor
Tim Cain’s research examines historical issues in American higher education. He has written on the development of academic freedom and tenure, the contested rise of faculty unionization, and efforts to control student expression.more information...
Jeanne Connell
Assistant Professor
My current research interests focus philosophy of education, particularly how the American pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey influences views about knowledge, learning, and teaching. In my recent articles, I analyzed the connection between pragmatic philosophy and the literary theory of Louise Rosenblatt, who was a pioneer in developing what is known in the field of reading as reader-response-theory. I explored how these diverse disciplines inform one another in order to enhance democratic education. My current projects focus on philosophy of education, transaction-based literary theory, as well as the teaching of social foundations of education to pre-service teachers.more information...
William Cope
Research Professor
My current research interests include population and community diversity, theories and practices of pedagogy and new technologies of representation and communication, including the 'semantic web'.more information...
Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling
Professor
Dr. Cordova-Wentling’s major program of research has to do with improving human resource work performance. It focuses on expanding our knowledge base related to how organizations in the future will effectively utilize information technology and human resources to maximize work performance. Within her major program of research there are four areas. These four areas include: the career development of women in engineering and computational science, the effective management of diversity in education and the workplace, the use of information technology to enhance human performance in the workplace, and human behavior skills in engineering. Dr.more information...
Denise Crews
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Crews’ current research interests surround higher education access and community college student patterns of success. Included under this research umbrella are community college transitional programs which promote college readiness for academic core courses, and the interventions and curriculum alignment models utilized to facilitate college success.more information...