Aidana is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization & Leadership at Illinois with a concentration in higher education. As a former higher education administrator, her research focuses on higher education, access to higher education, policy issues within higher education institutions, student affairs, and gender in higher education.
Education
- Ph.D. student, Higher Education, Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- MSc., Educational Leadership, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
- BSc., Education, Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan
Projects
Research Areas
- Higher education
- Access to higher education
- Policy issues within higher education institutions
- Student affairs
- Gender in higher education
Professional Associations
- American Educational Research Association
- Association for the Study of Higher Education
- Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment
- Comparative and International Education Society
- The Council for the Study of Community Colleges