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  • Mission & History
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  • Leadership
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  • Faculty and Staff Directory
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< Academics

  • Majors & Degree-Granting Programs
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Five Spartans pose for a photo in a row during an awards ceremony; three are holding paper awards and wearing medallions around their neck with a turquiose ribbon.

Record-setting KIN Spartans

Alums make history with national KIN honors

< Certifications

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  • School Psychologist Certification
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Detroit youth learn about movement at MSU

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Celebrating: Kristen Bieda

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Research and/or Advocacy Organizations
  • Policy Researcher, Rand Corporation
  • Education Trust-Midwest
  • Associate Director of the Education Research Alliance of New Orleans
  • Research Associate, Basis Policy Research
  • Labor Economist, Michigan Education Association
  • Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences
International Roles
  • Vice-coordinator of international relations at the Council of Higher Education of Turkey
  • Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and Policy at University of Macau, China
  • Korean Educational Development Institute
  • International Peace Cooperation, Program Advisor, Government of Japan
  • Education Manager, UNICEF
Higher Education Roles
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Educational Administration, Northern Illinois University
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Administration, Northern Illinois University
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Associate, Annenberg Institute, Brown University
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California (Irvine)
  • Visiting Professor, Grinnell College (Iowa)
  • Visiting Professor, Colby College (Maine)
  • Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
  • Assistant Professor, Wayne State University (Michigan)
  • Assistant Professor, Seton Hall (New Jersey)
  • Assistant Professor, Boston University
  • Assistant Professor, University of Washington
  • Assistant Professor, North Carolina State
  • Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment, University of Nevada
  • Assistant Professor, University of Colorado (Colorado Springs)
Alum Awards & Achievements
  • Spencer/NAEd Dissertation Fellowship
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Awards
  • Jackson Scholars
  • David L. Clark Award
  • American Educational Research Association
    • Dissertation Grant
    • Outstanding Dissertation Award (Division L)
    • Outstanding Dissertation Award (Politics & Education SIG; School Finance SIG; District Research and Reform SIG)
  • Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship
  • Emerging Scholar Award, AEFP