Kaitlin N. S. Newhouse, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Research and Evaluation
Bio
Kaitlin Newhouse, Ph.D, manages a wide variety of research projects aimed at improving community college campus climate and student outcomes. At the Belk Center, Kaitlin leads the PACE Climate Survey team and other research and evaluation efforts. In 2021, she earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA. Prior to this, she received her bachelor’s degree in gender studies from Tulane University and subsequently worked for four years in higher education administration. Her research interests focus on using quantitative and mixed methods approaches to address long-standing educational inequalities in a variety of higher education environments, with a specific interest in improving experiences and outcomes for poor and working-class students.
Publications
- Doing and Defining Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Computing , ACM Transactions on Computing Education (2024)
- Inclusion at the Center: Teaching and Learning in the Community College Context , Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (2024)
- Updating Our Understanding of Doctoral Student Persistence: Revising Models Using Structural Equation Modeling to Examine Consideration of Departure in Computing Disciplines , Research in Higher Education (2024)
- Nevertheless, They Persisted: Factors that Promote Persistence for Women and Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Students in Undergraduate Computing , Computer Science Education (2023)
- Can Computing Be Diversified on "Principles" Alone? Exploring the Role of AP Computer Science Courses in Students' Major and Career Intentions , ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING EDUCATION (2022)
- Better Late Than Never , Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2020)
- Does AP CS Principles Broaden Participation in Computing? , Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2020)
- Disciplinary Field Specificity and Variation in the STEM Gender Gap , New Directions for Institutional Research (2018)