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National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Affiliate Scholars

The purpose of the Affiliate Scholars Program is to advance the Center’s research on student success in key transition points in higher education and engage national and international scholars in targeted activities. Affiliate Scholars are integral to the Center’s high-quality research on postsecondary student success, assisting in the continued expansion our research capacity.

Current Affiliate Scholars

 

Bryce Bunting

Email: bryce_bunting@byu.edu
Phone: 801-422-2723
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Dr. Bryce D. Bunting is an associate clinical professor, the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education, and Director of the First-Year Experience at Brigham Young University (BYU). Bryce frequently presents at national and international conferences including the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA); NODA; International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL); NASPA; Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE); and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).   Bryce also serves as an affiliate scholar and national advisory board member for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition; as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition; and is the former editor of the Journal of Peer Learning.  His research agenda is focused on practical strategies for helping students adopt productive learning mindsets; using instructional design to inform the development of high-impact and transformative learning experiences in college; the impact of peer leadership on those who serve as peer leaders; and the application of learning theory to rethinking and redesigning college transitions. He was a peer leader as an undergraduate student and cites it as the most transformative thing that happened to him during college.

Project: International Survey of Peer Leaders

Catherine Hartman

Email: cehartm2@ncsu.edu 

Catherine Hartman, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor, ELPHD, and Faculty Scholar for the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University.

Prior to her work at NC State University, Catherine served as a post-doctoral research associate at the National Resource Center. She also served as a graduate research assistant at the Center for Community College Student Engagement and at the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin and as a graduate assistant in the Dean of Students Office and the Office of Academic Advising at the College of William & Mary.

Catherine’s research focuses on community college student persistence and engagement, student transfer from community colleges to four-year schools, undergraduate transfer student identity development, and linguistically diverse students’ experiences in postsecondary contexts.   

Project: National Survey of Transfer Student Initiatives

Dallin George Young

Email: dallin@uga@.edu
Office: 413E Aderhold Hall, Athens, GA 30602
Resources: Curriculum Vitae (PDF), Google Scholar Profile, Research Gate Profile

Dallin George Young, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the College Student Affairs Administration and Student Affairs Leadership graduate programs at the University of Georgia.  His research focuses on a line of inquiry that investigates how novices are trained, socialized, and educated as they move from the periphery to full participation in academic communities of practice. His research and practice includes: theoretical perspectives to interrogate student transitions into the academy; how graduate and professional students learn the rules, knowledge, and culture of their fields; the transformative potential for students engaged in peer leadership; and the (differential) impacts of educational structures on the success of students in transition.

Projects: Advising Success Network and International Survey of Peer Leaders

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