SENATE FACULTY

Deborah Lowe Vandel, PhD
Professor and Founding Dean​

Interests: Identifying short-term and long-term effects of afterschool and summer programs; Identifying short-term and long-term effects of self-care and other unsupervised settings; Developing observational and survey measures to assess & improve program quality; Working with OST programs to develop and assess effective professional development for staff

​Jacquelyn Sue Eccles, PhD
Distinguished Professor

Interests: Academic Motivation and Achievement, School and Family Influences on Adolescent Development, Gender and Ethnicity in STEM Fields

George Farkas, PhD
Professor

Interests: Paraprofessional tutoring interventions for disadvantaged students.

Hosun Kang, PhD
Assistant Professor

​​Interests: Early career science teacher learning, secondary science, under-represented youth’s identity development in STEM, connecting out-of-school experiences to school sciences, teacher preparation

Sandra Simpkins, PhD
Professor, Co-Director of CASE

​Interests: How families, friendships, and social position factors (such as, ethnicity and culture) shape adolescents’ organized after-school activities and motivation.