Kaitlin N. S. Newhouse

Passionate about designing and executing rigorous higher education research projects that can help faculty and administrators address longstanding inequalities and improve student experiences and outcomes. I am currently working as an Associate Director of Research and Evaluation at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State, where I primarily manage the PACE Climate Survey for Community Colleges which is designed to assess employee perceptions and satisfaction with various aspects of the campus climate. I completed my PhD in Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA, where my dissertation research explored poor and working-class college students' interactions with faculty and whether such interactions improved academic outcomes, with a special focus on racial/ethnic differences among poor and working-class students. While at UCLA, I also worked as a research analyst on the BRAID Research project that explored the efforts of 15 universities to diversify their computing courses and majors. In my previous experience at the Newcomb College Institute I had the unique opportunity to use my B.A. in Gender and Sexuality Studies to manage the Newcomb Scholars Program, a competitive, four-year, co-curricular program for undergraduate women, focused on developing their leadership, research, and writing skills.