Paul Umbach

Nov 13, 2024

College of Education Launches Fourth Interdisciplinary Research Hub with Focus on Civic Engagement

In line with its Strategic Plan: 2023-2030, the NC State College of Education has launched a fourth Interdisciplinary Research Hub. This hub, entitled “North Carolina Advancing Civic Engagement (NC-ACE),” will join three other hubs approved in 2023 in finding innovative solutions to pressing educational problems by bringing together individuals from different units and disciplines.

Nov 10, 2017

NBC News: When College Classrooms Become Ideologically Segregated, Everyone Suffers

NBC News features a report Stephen R. Porter and Paul D. Umbach, experts in education policy and professors at the NC State College of Education, led a decade ago that assessed factors that predict undergraduate major choice by surveying undergraduates at an unnamed elite liberal arts college. The researchers found, after controlling for many variables, that politics were a powerful predictor of major, rivaled only by personality.