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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 focuses on how community college transfer can function as a mechanism for advancing 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 40 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. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Toward a Transfer-Conscious University: Fulfilling the Promise of Community College Pathways, which will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in March 2027 (currently available for preorder). |