Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
PhD, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa
Expertise
College impact | Teaching and learning in higher education | Equity | Academic and cognitive development | STEM education | Faculty | Education policy | Quantitative methods | Mixed methods
KC Culver is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama and co-PI on the Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments (FACE) Project. KC spent three years as a senior postdoctoral scholar at Pullias, working on the PASS project and the Delphi Project. She earned her PhD from the University of Iowa, where she was a Presidential Graduate Research Fellow affiliated with the Center for Research on Higher Education. Prior to her doctoral studies, she taught undergraduate courses in rhetoric and writing for more than a decade.
KC’s research focuses on policies and practices related to faculty, curriculum, and learning environments. She employs quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods to study the impact of educational policy and practice on the development and success of diverse students. Her work appears in Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, and Academic Leader, among other publications. She also serves as Associate Editor for Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.
Projects
Promoting At-Promise Student Success (PASS) Project
The Promoting At-Promise Student Success Project aims to explore, document, and better understand whether the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities (TSLC) program experiences translate into greater student success.
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success
The Delphi Project is dedicated to enhancing awareness about the changing faculty trends using research and data to better support faculty off the tenure track and to help create new faculty models to support higher education institutions in the future.