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Dr. Deil-Amen is currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education, which includes the Higher Education program, awarding master’s and doctoral graduate degrees in Higher Education. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University and has expertise in qualitative research methods with experience in partnering on mixed methods projects. She has engaged in major studies of:
a) how community college occupational programs and comparable private career/technical colleges prepare students for sub-baccalaureate careers,
b) Latinx and African-American, low-SES students’ transition from high school to two- and four- year colleges,
c) college planning strategies and trajectories of socio-economically and racial/ethnically diverse university students, with particular attention to low-income student challenges, social networks, and major/post-graduate/career decision-making,
d) the use of social media technology to connect and engage community college students in ways that improve success outcomes.
With funds from an NSF S-STEM grant, her recent project supports (with scholarships and programming) and researches the experience and outcomes of Pima Community College students as they transition into and through university STEM majors. Regina’s areas of expertise are sociology of education/higher education, qualitative methods, transitions into and through college, community college students’ aspirations and persistence, educational stratification, inequality, and opportunities in two-year and four-year colleges.
Dr. Deil-Amen's prior 2011-2014 research project, "Getting Connected: Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Enhance Community College Student Success," was funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Show Less
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Courses
- CASCollege Access and Success
- FLFoundations of Leadership
- STIOCStudent Transitions Into and Out of College
- QMHEQualitative Methods in Higher Education
- SCCSociology of Community Colleges
- QDAPFQualitative Data Analysis with a P-20 Focus
- QMEQualitative Methods in Education
Grants
- STEM Ed PRF: Research on Educational Equity and Diversity in STEM (REEDS)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$1.3M
Active - Bridging Faculty and Student Cultures: Culturally Responsive Support for STEM Students Transferring between Two and Four Year Hispanic Serving Institutions
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$4.8M
Active - Supporting Success of Science Transfer Students
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$999.6K
Active - More than a Number? Understanding the Impact of Data-Driven Tools on Advising Practice and Student support
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$4.5K
- Improving the Financial Aid Process Through Text Messaging
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$10.2K
- PLANNING: Research on Social Media's Potential to Support Student Success
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$735.4K
News
- Building a Bridge to STEM Degrees for Transfer Students
2019
- Project Diversifies Voices in the National Public Sphere
2014
- Thought Leaders Learn the Ways of Idea Promotion
2014
- Grant Funds Study of Social Media in Community Colleges
2011
- Exploring the Diversity Around Us
2011
Publications (25)
Recent
- Understanding the Impact of Data-Driven Tools on Advising Practice and Student Support
2023
- p Cultivating hope through creative resistance: Puerto Rican undergraduates surviving the disasters of climate and colonization /p
2022
- p Race Without Gender? Trends and Limitations in the Higher Education Scholarship Regarding Men of Color /p
2021
- p Mindset Messaging: Fostering Student Support and Confidence through Micro-Messaging in Advisor Communication. /p
2020
- p The ldquo;Geography of Opportunity rdquo; in Community Colleges: The Role of the Local Labor Market in Students rsquo; Decisions to Persist and Succeed /p
2019
- p Community (in) Colleges: The Relationship Between Online Network Involvement and Academic Outcomes at a Community College /p
2016
- p College for All Latinos? The Role of High School Messages in Facing College Challenges /p
2015
- p Do Financial Aid Policies Unintentionally Punish the Poor, and What Can We Do about It?. /p
2015
- p Changing the Context of Student Engagement: Using Facebook to Increase Community College Student Persistence and Success. /p
2015
- p How Much Economic Value Does My Credential Have? : Reformulating Tinto s Model to Study Students Persistence in Community Colleges /p
2014
- Beyond Getting In and Fitting In: An Examination of Social Networks and Professionally Relevant Social Capital Among Latina/o University Students
2012
- p Beyond remedial dichotomies: Are lsquo;underprepared rsquo; college students a marginalized marjority? /p
2011
- The underserved third: How our educational structures populate an educational underclass
2010
- Circumscribed agency: The relevance of standardized college entrance exams for low SES high school students
2009
- A review of the transition to college literature in sociology
2007
- p The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession: Faculty Culture at For-Profit Colleges and Universities (review) /p
2007
- Student planning and information problems in different college structures
2006
- p Increasing the College Preparedness of At-Risk Students /p
2006
- To teach or not to teach social skills: Comparing community colleges and private occupational colleges
2006
- p Colleges, Careers, and the Institutional Structuring of the Transition to Adulthood /p
2005
- Colleges, Careers, and the Institutional Structuring of the Transition to Adulthood
2004
- Charter building and labor market contacts in two-year colleges
2004
- The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how?
2003
- The unintended consequences of stigma-free remediation
2002