Faculty

Frances Stage

Professor of Higher Education

Frances Stage

Phone: 998-5520
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Frances King Stage is Professor of Administration, Leadership, and Technology at New York University. She earned her B.S. at the University of Miami and her M.S. at Drexel University, both in Mathematics. Her Ph.D. is from Arizona State University in Higher Education. Her research specialization includes college student learning, especially for STEM disciplines and student participation in math and science majors. Recent work has focused on characteristics of undergraduate institutions that produce unexpected levels of students who go on to earn STEM doctorates. Stage is author or co-author of books, articles, and book chapters focusing on college students and the methods used to study them. Recent books include Answering Critical Questions Using Quantitative Data (2007); Theoretical Perspectives on College Students (2004), Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods with K. Manning (2003) Stage is past Vice President for the Postsecondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association and has won awards for research and scholarship including the 2006 Research Achievement Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). She spent 1999-2000 as a Senior Fellow at the National Science Foundation and 2005-2006 as Visiting Scholar and the summer of 2008 as a Fulbright Specialist in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica. She was Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington from 1986-2000.

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/profiles/faculty/frances_stage


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Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. Arizona State University
    Higher Education
  • M.S. Drexel University
    Mathematics
  • B.S. University of Miami
    Mathematics

Courses Taught

  • HPSE-GE 3120 - Theoretical Perspectives on Higher Education
  • AMLT-GE 3400 - Dissertation Proposal Seminar
  • HPSE-GE 2088 - Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Higher Education
  • HPSE-GE 2087 - Building and Maintaining Institutional Quality
  • HPSE-GE 2122 - Learning in Postsecondary Education
  • HPSE-GE 2101 - Internship in College Teaching

Research Interests

  • College student learning and participation in STEM majors.
  • Assessment of Learning.
  • Pedagogy and theory at the college level.
  • Student Preparation and Access to College

Grants & Contracts

National Fulbright Senior Specialist, Dept Educ.Studies, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica 2008. $$15,000.

National Center for Education Statistics Restricted use Data Sets. $0. 9/2009 - 1/2012 Access Includes restricted use of national data sets for NSOPF: 93 & 99, NELS:88, and B&B:93-97. NSOPF, ELS..

"Developing Minority Scientists." Awarded . $8,000. New York University, UCF competition, 2003-3004.

"Curricular change in Undergraduate SMET Education" $100,000. Awarded, Indiana University sabbatical proposal, 8/2000-5/2001.

"Reform Efforts in Undergraduate Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education." $100,000. National Science Foundation. 3/99-3/2001.

"Research on the Mathematics/Science Pipeline." $93,047. American Educational Research Association/National Science Foundation Leigh Burstein Fellowship. 8/99-5/2000.

Selected Publications

  • Stage, F.K. & Kinzie, J. (2009). Reform in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: The Classroom Context. The Journal of General Education, 58(2), 85-105.
  • Hubbard, S.M. & Stage, F.K. (2009) Attitudes, Perceptions, and Preferences of Faculty at Hispanic Serving and Predominantly Black Institutions. Journal of Higher Education, v80(3),270-289.
  • Stage, F.K. & Hubbard, S.M. (2009). Undergraduate Institutions that Foster Women and Minority Scientists. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, v15,77-91.
  • Stage, F.K. & Cook, L. (2008). Critical Quantitative Inquiry in the Caribbean Context: Questions and Interpretations. The Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean 10(1), pp 81-102.
  • Frances K. Stage (ed.) 2007. Using quantitative Data to Answer critical Questions. New Directions for Institutional Research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Schreiber, J, Nora, A., Stage, F.K.,.& Barlow, L. (2006). Confirmatory Factor Analyses and Structural Equations Modeling: An Introduction and Reveiw. Journal of Educational Research, 99(6).
  • Stage, F.K., Carter, H. & Nora, A. (2004). Path Analysis: An Introduction and Analysis of a Decade of Research. Journal of Educational Research, 98(1), 5-12.
  • Stage, F.K., & Manning, K.M. (eds.) (2003). Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods. New York: Bruner Routledge.
  • Frances K. Stage, Carter, D.F., Hossler, D.& St. John, E. (eds., 2003) Theoretical Perspectives on College Student Research. Pearson Publishing.
  • Muller, P., Kinzie, J. & Frances K. Stage (2001). Science Achievement Growth Trajectories: Factors Influencing Racial -Ethnic Differences. American Educational Research Journal. 38, 981-1012.
  • Frances K. Stage & Dannells, M. (2000). Theory to Practice: New Case Studies for Working with College Students. Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis.
  • Frances K. Stage & Hossler, G. (2000). Where is the Student? Linking Student Behaviors, College Choice and College Persistence. In J. Braxton (ed.) Rethinking the Departure Puzzle : New Theory and Research on College Student Retention. Vanderbilt University.
  • Frances K. Stage Muller, P. Kinzie, J. & Simmons, A. (1998). Creating Learning Centered Classrooms: What Does Learning Theory Have to Say?. Washington, D.C.: ASHE/ERIC. Frances K. Stage, L. Watson & M. Terrell (eds.) (1999). Enhancing Student Learning:

Awards

  • 1999 : Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award 1999-2000.
  • 2004 : Board of Senior Scholars, American College Personnel Association 1998-2004.
  • 1999 : National Science Foundation/American Educational Research Association Leigh Burstein Fellowship 1999/2000.
  • 2006 : Association for the Study of Higher Education, Research Achievement Award.
  • 2008 : Fulbright Specialist, Dept Educ.Studies, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
  • 1995 : American College Personnel Association, Annuit Coeptis Award, 1995.
  • 1991 : Indiana University Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 1991-1992.
  • 1990 : Association for the Study of Higher Education, Promising Scholar Award, 1990.

Afficiations and Editorial Boards

  • Review of Higher Education, Consulting Editor
  • Journal of Higher Education, Consulting Editor
  • Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Consulting Editor
  • Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Consulting Editor
  • The Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean, Editorial Board.
  • Fulbright Specialist, Dept Educ.Studies, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica 2008.
  • Association for the Study of Higher Education, Research Achievement Award, 2006.
  • National Science Foundation/American Educational Research Association, Sr. Fellow in Residence, 1999/2000.
  • Vice President, American Educational Research Association, Postsecondary Education Div, 1998-2000.
  • ASHE Higher Education Colloquium, 2000-present.
  • Board of Senior Scholars, American College Personnel Association, 1998-present.