Higher Education Colloquium Presented by Dr. Lauren Schudde, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Lauren Schudde, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at The University of Texas at Austin, will present a colloquium titled: How Political and Ecological Contexts Shape Community College Transfer.  Dr. Schudde is also a faculty research affiliate of the UT's Population Research Center and the Charles A. Dana Center and Teachers College's Community College Research Center. Her research examines the impact of educational policies and practices on college student outcomes, with a primary interest in how higher education can be better leveraged to ameliorate socioeconomic inequality in the United States. Ongoing projects examine how community college students respond to institutional transfer policies, the influence of dev-ed math reform on student outcomes, and labor market returns to different types of postsecondary degrees.