Recent Publications

Dr. Rodney Hughes, Senior Scholar

Cheslock, J., Hughes, R., Frick-Cardelle, R., & Heller, D. (2018) Filling the gap: The use of intentional and incidental need-meeting financial aid in higher education. Review of Higher Education 41(4) 577-605.

Koricich, A., Chen, X., & Hughes, R. (2018) Understanding the effects of rurality and socioeconomic status on college attendance and institutional choice in the United States. Review of Higher Education 41(2) 281-305.

Lozano, J., & Hughes, R. (2017) Modes of representation among students on higher education governing boards. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 39(6), 607-624.

Cheslock, J., Hughes, R., & Umbricht, M. (2014). The opportunities, challenges, and strategies associated with the use of operations-oriented (big) data to support decision making within universities. In J. Lane (Ed.), Building a smarter university: Big data, innovation, and analytics (pp. 211-237). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Dr. Erin McHenry-Sorber, Senior Scholar

McHenry-Sorber, E., & Hall, D. (Eds.) (2018). Diversity in Rural Educational Leadership. Special Issue, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 34 (Introduction, 1-5).

Moffa, E., & McHenry-Sorber, E. (2018). Learning to be rural: Lessons about being rural in a teacher preparation program. The Rural Educator, 39(1), 26-40.

McHenry-Sorber, E., & Budge, K. (2018) Revisiting the rural superintendency: Rethinking guiding theories for contemporary practice. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 33(3), 1-15.

Schafft, K.A., McHenry-Sorber, E., Hall. D., & Burfoot-Rochford, I. (2017). Busted amidst the Boom: The Creation of New Insecurities and Inequalities within Pennsylvania's Shale Gas Boomtowns. Rural Sociology, Online first publication, 1-29.

Hall, D., & McHenry-Sorber, E. (2017). Politics First: Examining the Practice of the Multi-District Superintendent. Educational Policy Analysis Archives, 25(82), 1-29.

Dr. Nathan M. Sorber, Senior Scholar 

Nathan M. Sorber (2020). Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations. Perspectives on the History of Higher Education. New York, NY: Routledge.. 

Nathan M. Sorber. (2019). History of the American Land-Grant Universities and Regional Development. In Erdős Katalin & Attila Varga (Ed.) Handbook of Universities and Regional Development.

Nathan M. Sorber (2018). Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Geiger, R. L, Sorber, N. M. & Christian K. A., (Eds.). (2018). “American Higher Education in the Postwar Era, 1945-1970.” Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, Volume 32. New York, NY: Routledge.

Nathan M. Sorber (2018) “Early Land-Grant Colleges and Students in the Northeastern United States: A History of Regional Access and Mobility Patterns in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, 1862-1878,” Agricultural History.

Nathan M. Sorber (2017). “The University Tradition in the United States,” in Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Shin, Jung Cheol, Teixeira, Pedro, editors.