Faculty and Staff

 

E-mail: lindah@iastate.edu
Office: 515-294-5746

 

Linda Serra Hagedorn was appointed Director of Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE) in August 2008. She is also a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

Professor Hagedorn’s research focuses on community college student success, retention, and transfer. She is especially interested in issues pertaining to underrepresented student groups, and equity. Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa State University, she directed the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida. She was also the Director of the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students Project (TRUCCS); a longitudinal study of over 5,000 students enrolled in the Los Angeles Community College District. Although Dr. Hagedorn performs both quantitative and qualitative research, she is especially known for developing techniques to analyze enrollment and other college fi les. She has written extensively and presented her work on transcript analysis. Her most recent published works include An investigation of critical mass: The role of Latino representation in the success of urban community college students and Hispanic Community College Students and the Transfer Game: Strikes, Misses, and Grand Experiences.

Dr. Hagedorn teaches courses in higher education administration, grantwriting, community college issues, as well as research methods and design.

She serves on the editorial boards of various scholarly journals, and is the founding editor of the Florida Journal of Educational Administration and Policy. Dr. Hagedorn holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis-Higher Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.