Dougherty, Kevin J. (kd109)

• B.A., Washington University, Political Science.
• M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University, Sociology.

Higher education policy and reform.  K-12 educational policy and reform. The community college. College students. Sociology of education.

Prof. Dougherty's current research is focused on class and race inequalties in information about higher education and the role of those inequalities in the production of class and race gaps in college access and success.  Professor Dougherty has a co-authored a 2016 book from Johns Hopkins University Press on the implementation and impacts of performance funding for higher education.  In the past, Professor Dougherty has done extensive research and writing on state policies affecting access to, and success in, community colleges by minority and low-income students; policies affecting immigrant student access to higher education; the historical origins and impact on students of community colleges; the role of higher education in economic and workforce development; and reform movements in elementary and secondary education (especially school choice, charter schools, and school standards).

Reforming the American Community College: Promising Prospects and their Challenges (with Hana Lahr and Vanessa S. Morest).  New York, NY: Teachers College, Community College Research Center, November 2017.  https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications/reforming-american-community-college-promising-changes-challenges.html

English and American Higher Education Access and Completion Policy Regimes: Similarities, Differences, and Possible Lessons (with Claire Callender).  Working Paper #24.  London, UK: Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, August 2017.  Available from: http://www.researchcghe.org/publications/english-and-american-higher-education-access-and-completion-policy-regimes-similarities-differences-and-possible-lessons

Performance Funding for Higher Education (with Sosanya Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca S. Natow, Lara Pheatt, & Vikash Reddy), Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2016.

The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations (with Rebecca S. Natow), Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2015.

“Looking Inside the Black Box of Performance Funding for Higher Education:  Policy Instruments, Outcomes, Obstacles, and Unintended Impacts” (with Sosanya Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca S. Natow, Lara Pheatt, & Vikash Reddy). Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(1) (2016). http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.07

Performance Funding for Higher Education: What Are the Mechanisms? What Are the Impacts? (with Vikash Reddy).  ASHE Higher Education Report: Vol. 39, Number 2 (June 2013), pp. 1-133.

“Undocumented Immigrants and State Higher Education Policy: The Contrasting Politics of In-State Tuition Eligibility in Texas and Arizona” (with H. Kenny Nienhusser and Blanca E. Vega). Review of Higher Education 34 (1) (Fall 2010), pp. 123-173. 

“It’s Not Enough to Get Through the Open Door: Inequalities by Social Background in Transfer from Community Colleges to Four-Year Colleges” (with Greg Kienzl). Teachers College Record 108 (March 2006): 452-487.

“Community Colleges and Contract Training: Content, Origins, and Impacts” (with Marianne Bakia). Teachers College Record 102 (1) (Feb. 2000): 197-243.

"Opportunity to Learn Standards: A Sociological Critique." Sociology of Education 68 (May 1996): 40-65.

The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.  Winner of the Willard Waller Award for the Outstanding Book in the Sociology of Education in the years 1994-1996.