Dr Denisa Gandara, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, will present a Higher Education Colloquium titled: "Access & Accountability: Examining the Origins and Effects of Performance-Based Funding Policies for Higher Education."

Dr. Denisa Gandara, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, will present a Higher Education Colloquium titled:  "Access & Accountability: Examining the Origins and Effects of Performance-Based Funding Policies for Higher Education." Dr. Gandara earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education at the University of Georgia. Her research agenda broadly explores higher education policy formulation processes and impacts, especially on populations traditionally underserved in higher education. Her work appears in The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, and Review of Higher Education, and she is a co-author of the book Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education: Can Equity be Bought? Dr. Gándara is the recipient of an AERA Research Grant and a dissertation fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences.