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Jennifer M. Blaney, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. She completed her PhD in higher education from UCLA and previously served on the faculty at Northern Arizona University and Idaho State University. Dr. Blaney's research primarily focuses on how community college transfer can function as a mechanism for advancing gender equity in computing and other STEM fields. Her recent studies of transfer pathways in computer science have been supported by multiple grants from the Spencer Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Blaney has authored more than 30 peer reviewed publications, and her scholarship has been recognized through multiple awards, including the 2024 Townsend Emerging Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges, a 2023 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a recent NSF CAREER award to further her research on equity and transfer degree trajectories in computing. You can read more about her recent grant-funded research projects here. |
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