Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Faculty

Valerie Lundy-Wagner

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow

Valerie Lundy-Wagner


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Dr. Valerie Lundy-Wagner is primarily interested in bachelor's degree completion, and what colleges and universities can do to better conceptualize and enact programs and policies that help students persist. Her work includes theoretical, historical, as well as more traditionally qualitative and quantitative research. Dr. Lundy-Wagner's research interests relate to the postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pipeline, minority-serving institutions (especially, historically Black colleges and universities), and academic advising. She is a Co-PI on an NSF-funded project to characterize socioeconomic status among engineering undergraduates with colleagues at Purdue University in Engineering Education. In all of her work, Dr. Lundy-Wagner tries to consider variability of experiences in terms of ethncity/race, gender, and socioeconomic class.


Degrees Held

  • PhD - Higher Education - University of Pennsylvania
  • MA - Social Sciences in Education - Stanford University
  • BS - Civil & Environmental Engineering - University of California, Los Angeles

Selected Publications

  • Lundy-Wagner, V. (in press). Is it really a man's world? Reconsidering Black men in STEM at HBCUs. Journal of Negro Education.
  • Lundy-Wagner, V. (accepted for publication with revision). “Class”ifying ethnicity/race and gender: A critical race feminist critique of bachelor’s degree completion research. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education & Information Studies.
  • Ohland, M., Orr, M.K., Lundy-Wagner, V., Veenstra, C., & Long, R.A. (2012). “Viewing engineering student retention through a socioeconomic lens,” In C. Baillie, A. L. Pawley, and D. Riley (Eds.) Engineering and Social Justice: In the university and beyond. Indiana: Purdue University Press.
  • Lundy-Wagner, V. & Turner, H. (2012). “Do Charter Schools Work for African-American Children? Separating Opinion from Evidence,” In D. Slaughter-Defoe, H. Stevenson, E. Arrington, & D.J. Johnson (Eds.) Black Educational Choice in a Climate of School Reform: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K-12 Public School. California: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
  • Lundy-Wagner, V.C. & Gasman, M. (2011). When gender issues are not just about women: Reconsidering Black men at historically Black colleges and universities. Teachers College Record, 113(5), 934-968.
  • Gasman, M., Lundy-Wagner, V.C., Ransom, T., & Bowman, N. (2010). Unearthing Promise and Potential: Our Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers
  • Perna, L.W., Lundy-Wagner, V., Yee, A., Brikk, L., & Tedal, T. (2010). “Showing Them the Money: The Role of Institutional Financial Aid Policies and Communication Strategies in Attracting Low-income Students,” In. Adrianna Kezar (Ed.) Improving College Opportunity for Low-Income Students. New York: Routledge.
  • Perna, L.W., Lundy-Wagner, V.C., Drezner, N.D., Gasman, M., Yoon, S., Bose, E., & Gary, S. (2009). The contribution of HBCUs to the preparation of African American women for STEM careers: A case study,” Research in Higher Education, 50(1), 1-23.
  • Perna, L.W., Gasman, M., Gary, S., Lundy-Wagner, V., & Drezner, N.D., (2009). “Identifying Strategies for Increasing Attainment of Underrepresented Groups in STEM Fields: Lessons from a Study of one HBCU,” In S. Harper, C. Newman, and S. Gary (Eds.) Students of Color and STEM: Constructing a New Research Agenda. California: Jossey-Bass.
  • Gasman, M., Perna, L., Yoon, S., Drezner, N.D., Lundy-Wagner, V.C., Bose, E., & Gary, S. (2009). “The Path to Graduate School in Science and Engineering for Underrepresented Students of Color,” In M. Howard-Hamilton, C.L. Morelon-Quianoo, S.D. Johnson, R. Winkle Wagner, and L. Santiague (Eds.) Standing on the Outside Looking In: Underrepresented Students’ Experiences in Advanced Degree Programs. Virginia: Stylus Publishers.

Selected Presentations

  • The stealthy attribute in retention: Adviser perspectives on students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds
    To be co-presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academic Advising Association, Nashville, TN, October 2012.
  • Using high school and district economic variables to predict engineering persistence
    To be co-presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, San Antonio, TX, June 2012
  • A New Approach?: Academic Advising as Cultural Capital Intervention
    Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, February 2012.
  • Is is a man's world? Reconsidering Black men in STEM at HBCUs
    Presented at the Critical Race Studies in Education Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 2011.
  • Bachelor's degree completion and intersectionality: Considering qualitatively generated theories for quantitative modeling
    Presented at the Critical Race Studies in Education Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 2011.
  • Aligning qualitative and quantitative notions of intersectionality: Consideration of bachelor's degree completion
    Presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2010
  • A harassing climate: The implications of sexual harassment for campus climate
    Co-presented with Dr. Winkle-Wagner at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 2009
  • Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
    Co-presented with Dr. Laura Perna and colleagues at the College Board Forum 2009, New York, New York, October 2009.
  • Preparing underrepresented students of color for doctoral success: The role of undergraduate institutions
    Co-presented with Dr. Marybeth Gasman and J. Vultaggio at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2009.
  • When gender issues are not just about women: Reconsidering Black men at historically Black colleges and universities
    Co-presented with Dr. Marybeth Gasman at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2009.
  • The impact of middle school certification tests on the teaching pool
    Co-presented with Dr. Drew Gitomer at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2009
  • The contribution of HBCUs to the preparation of African American women for STEM careers: A case study
    Co-presented with Dr. Laura Perna and colleagues at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2007

Courses

Co-Instructor, Administration, Leadership and Technology Department, New York University

E98.2088: Research Approaches & Techniques in Postsecondary Education (Spring 2011)

Instructor, Administration, Leadership and Technology Department, New York University

E98.2099: Minority-serving institutions in Higher Education (Fall 2011, Fall 2012)

Awards

  • 2011 : AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy, AERA Grants Program
  • 2010 : NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity Fellowship
  • 2009 : Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2008 : Graduate Internship Program at ETS
  • 2006 : Dr. William Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2006 : Dean’s Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania