Assistant Professor of Higher Education
PhD, Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California
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Expertise
Educational equity | Globalization | Institutional innovation | Qualitative methods | Sociology of education
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Michael Lanford is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of North Georgia. His research explores the social dimensions of education, with a specific focus on educational equity, globalization, institutional innovation, organizational culture, and the workforce of the twenty-first century. In recent years, Dr. Lanford’s work has appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, Higher Education, Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, Policy Reviews in Higher Education, and Qualitative Inquiry, among other publications. Additionally, he has a forthcoming book about innovation in higher education with SUNY Press. He has received funding to present his research in Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Faculty Advisor
William G. Tierney
Dissertation Title
Remediation Reforms at a Florida State College: A Relational Ethnography of Academic Discourse and Social Capital