Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida
About
Brittany's diverse experience working in higher education includes academic administration, admissions, advising, counseling, teaching, and supervising student workers. Brittany is positive, resourceful, and solution-oriented.
Professionally, Brittany excels at problem-solving, program development for student success, time management, and efficiency. She succeeds in advising a diverse student body, faculty, and staff at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Brittany is passionate about graduate student success, diversity issues in STEM graduate education, doctoral education, and research design in higher education. She is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the University of South Florida in the higher education program.
Current Work:
Brittany's dissertation focuses on the science doctoral education. Specifically, the research explores the relationship between the doctoral student and the dissertation advisor. Using Astin's I-E-O Model, Brittany's dissertation project will examine the relationship between the admission variables students in the sciences enter the doctoral with, the environment of the research group in which the dissertation leads, and the output varirables (doctoral student outcomes) the the doctoral students graduate with including time-to-degree and publications. Brittany is also working on a research paper exploring the best practices in graduate education used by the science discipline.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Doctoral Education, Graduate Student Success, Minorities in STEM doctoral programs, Diversity
