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Dannielle Joy Davis

Assistant Professor



EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 10/2005
M.A., Higher Education Administration , University of Missouri at Kansas City, 01/2001
M.P.A., Public Administration, Area of Emphasis: Comparative Educational Policy Analysis (Individualized Program of Study) , University of Missouri at Kansas City, 01/2001

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Higher Education Access; Faculty Recruitment and Retention; Campus Climate; Mentoring; Qualitative and Mixed Methods

AFFILIATIONS:

  • American Educational Research Association
  • Association for Institutional Research
  • National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
  • American College Personnel Association

PERSONAL PROSE:

Dr. Dannielle Joy Davis is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies with an emphasis in policy analysis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include access and retention of underrepresented students and faculty in higher education, campus climate, as well as social stratification. The research of Dr. Davis is complemented by her comparative study of and work within the higher education systems of Ghana and South Africa. Graduate courses she has instructed include Educational Policy; Organizational Power, Politics, and Policy Formation; Educational Administration; and Race and Culture. She is recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the American College Personnel Association’s Roberta Christie Paper Award given to exceptional work on diversity (published in College and University, 2007). Dr. Davis is happily married and thanks her husband for his encouragement and support of her career.



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