Bio

Kaitlin Newhouse is an Associate Director of Research and Evaluation at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University. She leads and supports applied research and evaluation projects that help community college leaders strengthen student experiences, engagement, and outcomes. Her current work includes the NC Community Colleges Boost Program evaluation, which examines strategies to improve the community college-to-workforce pipeline, and the PACE Climate Survey, which provides insights into faculty and staff perceptions of institutional culture. 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.

Area(s) of Expertise

Community college, college access, college impact, low-income college students, first-generation college students, STEM education, quantitative research

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 (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)
• 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)
• Nevertheless, They Persisted: Factors that Promote Persistence for Women and Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Students in Undergraduate Computing , Computer Science 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)

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