Kaitlin Newhouse
Asst Director
she/her
Associate Director of Research and Evaluation
Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research
706 Hillsborough St 1000
Bio
Kaitlin Newhouse is an Associate Director of Research and Evaluation at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research. In this role, she oversees the PACE Climate Survey and provides support for a variety of other research and evaluation projects aimed at improving student access and outcomes at North Carolina community colleges. 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.
Education
Ph.D. Higher Education University of California-Los Angeles 2021
Master of Arts Higher Education University of California-Los Angeles 2017
Bachelor of Arts Gender Studies Tulane University 2012
Area(s) of Expertise
Community college, college access, college impact, low-income college students, first-generation college students, STEM education, quantitative research
Publications
- 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)