Gloria Crisp

Gloria Crisp's scholarship seeks to identify practices and policies that can reduce inequities in transfer and college outcomes for students enrolled at community colleges and bachelor's granting accessible institutions. To date her research has focused on developing a mentoring framework to explain how students experience and receive various forms of mentoring support. She is particularly interested in conducting research that supports and uplifts Latinx students and other minoritized students who attend accessible institutions. Gloria served as Editor-in-Chief of New Directions for Institutional Research from 2013-2018 and Associate Editor of The Review of Higher Education from 2009-2015. Her survey instrument, the College Student Mentoring Scale (CSMS), is currently being used at institutions around the country and abroad to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring relationships. Gloria has published over 60 articles, book chapters, and policy reports and her research has been cited over 6,000 times. Her scholarship has been published in leading education journals including The American Educational Research Journal, The Journal of Higher Education, Review of Educational Research, Teachers College Record, Research in Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and The Journal of College Student Development. Her work has been supported by The National Science Foundation (NSF), The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).​