Welcome! I'm Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Ph.D. (she/hers). I'm a qualitative scholar of higher education focusing on higher education staff, financial aid, community colleges, and gender. 

Recent CV

"The Numbers are There, but the Attention is Elsewhere": An Analysis of The Boyer Report

Money Matters: How Social Class Shapes Students’  Understandings of Financing Their Education

Complex Pathways to Transfer: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Transition from Community College to 4-Year University

The Consequence of a COVID-19 Campus: Student and Staff Views of Financial Aid Practice During the Pandemic. 

(D)riven by Neoliberalism: Exploring Alternative Purposes for Higher Education

Absolution and Participation in Privilege: The False Fronts of Men Student Affairs Professionals

How to Win Dissertation Arguments and Influence Readers: Reflections on Conducting Focused Ethnographic Research Online

What Makes "Good" Engineering Pedagogy? Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study of Engineering Faculty. ASEE Work-in-Progress Publication

"Ask God First:" Spirituality and Transfer-Intending Community College Students

Leadership in Higher Education to Increase Student Retention: The College Dropout Scandal by David Kirp 

A Public or Private Good? Financing Higher Education in England and Germany

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