Articles & Book Chapters
2012
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M., & Malcom, L. E. (2012). Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Dowd, A. C., Bishop, R., Bensimon, E. M., & Witham, K. (2012). Accountability for equity in postsecondary education. In K. S. Gallagher, R. Goodyear, D. J. Brewer & R. Rueda (Eds.), Urban education: a model for leadership and policy. New York: Routledge.
Dowd, A. C., Malcom, L. E., Nakamoto, J., & Bensimon, E. M. (2012). Institutional researchers as teachers and equity advocates: Facilitating organizational learning and change. In E. M. Bensimon & L. E. Malcolm (Eds.), Confronting Equity Issues on Campus. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Witham, K. A., & Bensimon, E. M. (2012). Creating a culture of inquiry around equity and student success. In S. D. Museus & U. M. Jayakumar (Eds.), Creating campus cultures: Fostering success among racially diverse student populations (pp. 46-67). New York: Routledge.
HSIs and STEM
Dowd, A. C., Sawatzky, M., Rall, R. M., & Bensimon, E. M. (in press). Action research: An essential practice for Twenty-First Century assessment. In R. T. Palmer, D. C. Maramba & M. Gasman (Eds.), Fostering success of ethnic and racial minorities in STEM: The role of Minority Serving Institutions. New York: Routledge.
Malcom, L. E., & Dowd, A. C. (2012). The Impact of undergraduate debt on the graduate school enrollment of STEM baccalaureates. The Review of Higher Education, 35(2).
2011
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bustillos, L.T., Rueda, R., & Bensimon, E.M. (2011). Faculty views of underrepresented students in community college settings: Cultural models and cultural practices. In P.R. Portes & S. Salas (Eds.), Vygotsky in 21st century society: Advances in cultural historical theory and praxis with non-dominant communities (pp.199-213). New York: Peter Lang.
Baldwin, C., Bensimon, E.M., Dowd, A.C., & Kleiman, L. (2011). Measuring student success. In R. Head (Ed.), New Directions for Community Colleges: Vol. 153, Spring 2011. Institutional Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Dowd, A. C., Sawatzky, M., & Korn, R. (2011). Theoretical Foundations and a Research Agenda to Validate Measures of Intercultural Effort. The Review of Higher Education, 53(1).
Transfer
Dowd, A.C. (2011). Improving Transfer Access for Low-Income Community College Students. In A. Kezar (Ed.), Recognizing and serving low-income students in higher education: An examination of institutional policies, practices and culture (pp. 217-231). New York: Routledge.
2010
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M., Dowd, A. C., Daniels III, J. E., & Walden, D. (2010). Long-term partners for serving Los Angeles' African American and Latino students: USC's Center for Urban Education and Los Angeles Southwest College. College bound: Strategies for access and success for low-income students (pp. 34-45). Los Angeles: USC Office of Government and Civic Engagement.
Harris III, F., Bensimon, E. M., & Bishop, R. (2010). The Equity Scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color. In C. Edley, Jr. & J. Ruiz de Velasco (Eds.), Changing places: How communities will improve the health of boys of color (pp. 277-308). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Stanton-Salazar, R. D. (2010). A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents and their role in the empowerment of low-status youth. Youth and Society, 42(2), 1-44.
2009
Transfer
Melguizo, T., & Dowd, A.C. (2009). Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four year college juniors. Teachers College Record, 111(1), 55-89.
2008
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Dowd, A. C. (2008). The community college as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access “saga” to outcome equity. Harvard Educational Review, 77(4), 407-419.
Harris III, F., III, & Bensimon, E.M. (2008). The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assessing and responding to racial/ethnic disparities in student outcomes. In S. R. Harper & L. D. Patton (Eds.), New directions for student services: Responding to the Realities of Race on Campus. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Financial Aid/Debt & Higher Education Finance
Dowd, A. C. (2008). Dynamic interactions and intersubjectivity: Challenges to causal modeling in studies of college student debt. Review of Educational Research, 78(2), 232-259.
HSIs
Contreras, F. E., Malcom, L. E., & Bensimon, E. M. (2008). Hispanic Serving Institutions: Closeted identity and the production of equitable outcomes for Latino/a students. In M. Gasman, B. Baez & C. Turner (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Minority Serving Institutions. SUNY Press.
Transfer
Dowd, A. C., Cheslock J., & Melguizo, T. (2008). Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education. Journal of Higher Education, 79(4): 1-31.
Dowd, A. C., & Melguizo, T. (2008). Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s. Review of Higher Education, 31(4), 377-400.
2007
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M. (2007). The underestimated significance of practitioner knowledge in the scholarship of student success. The Review of Higher Education, 30(4), 441-469.
Bensimon, E. M., Harris III, F., & Rueda, R. (2007). The mediational means of enacting equity-mindedness among community college practitioners. Diversity Research, 7(12), 14-15.
Bensimon, E. M., Rueda, R., Dowd, A. C., & Harris III, F. (2007). Accountability, equity, and practitioner learning and change. Metropolitan, 18(3), 28-45.
Dowd, A. C., & Tong, V. P. (2007). Accountability, assessment, and the scholarship of "best practice". In J. C. Smart (Ed.), Handbook of Higher Education (Vol. 22, pp. 57-119): Springer Publishing.
Financial Aid/Debt & Higher Education Finance
Dowd, A. C., & Grant, J. L. (2007). Equity effects of entrepreneurial community college revenues. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 31(3), 231-244.
2006
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M. (2006). Learning equity-mindedness: Equality in educational outcomes. The Academic Workplace, 1(17), 2-21.
Bensimon, E. M., Hao, L., & Bustillos, L. T. (2006).Measuring the state of equity in higher education. In P. Gándara, G. Orfield & C. Horn (Eds.), Leveraging promise and expanding opportunity in higher education. Albany: SUNY Press.
Pena, E. V., Bensimon, E. M., & Colyar, J. (2006). Contextual problem defining: Learning to think and act. Liberal Education, 92(2), 48-55.
Financial Aid/Debt & Higher Education Finance
Dowd, A. C., & Coury, T. (2006). The effect of loans on the persistence and attainment of community college students. Research in Higher Education, 47(1), 33-62.
Dowd, A. C., & Grant, J. L. (2006). Equity and efficiency of community college appropriations: The role of local financing. Review of Higher Education, 29(2), 167-194.
2005
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bauman, G. L. (2005). Promoting organizational learning in higher education to achieve equity in educational outcomes. In A. Kezar (Ed.), Organizational learning in higher education (Vol. 131). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Bensimon, E. M. (2005). Closing the achievement gap in higher education: An organizational learning perspective. In A. Kezar (Ed.), Organizational learning in higher education (Vol. 131). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
2004
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M. (2004). The diversity scorecard: A learning approach to institutional change. Change, 36, 45-52.
Bensimon, E. M., Polkinghorne, D. E., Bauman, G. L., & Vallejo, E. (2004).Doing research that makes a difference. Journal of Higher Education, 75(1), 104-126.
Financial Aid/Debt & Higher Education Finance
Dowd, A. C. (2004). Community college revenue disparities: What accounts for an urban college deficit? Urban Review, 36(4), 251-270.
Dowd, A. C. (2004).Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(21), 1-33.
2003
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M., Polkinghorne, D. E., & Bauman, G. (2003). The accountability side of diversity. Diversity Digest, 7(1,2), 14-15.
Dowd, A. C. (2003). From access to outcome equity: Revitalizing the democratic mission of the community college. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 586(March), 92-119.
Prior to 2003
Equity, Inquiry, Organizational Learning and Leadership
Bensimon, E. M., & Neumann, A. (1993). Redesigning collegiate leadership: Teams and teamwork in higher education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.