Disability & Psychoeducational Studies (DPS)
- Transition Services: Researching how to improve transition services for individuals with extensive support needs, particularly regarding equity in employment and postsecondary opportunities.
Educational Policy Studies & Practice (EPSP)
- Higher Education: Analyzing issues related to access, equity, and success in higher education, with attention to P-20 education — the policies, practices, and pathways that connect K-12 education with postsecondary education, including community college transfer pathways.
Researcher Spotlight
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Dr. Jameson D. Lopez (Educational Policy Studies & Practice) conducts research that reframes contemporary mainstream postsecondary persistence theories to better incorporate the factors that influence Native American postsecondary student persistence. As an Indigenous quantitative researcher with expertise in the limitations of collecting and applying quantitative results to Native American populations, he creates new concepts and measures that examine how governmental policies toward Native Americans have focused on the problematic goal of assimilation.