Aidana Sirgebayeva

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

• Communications and Dissemination
• Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment
  
• Program Review
• Returning Adults

Research Areas

• Higher education
• Access to higher education
• Policy issues within higher education institutions
• Student affairs
• Gender in higher education

Publications

• Experiences of International Doctoral Student Mothers at a US Research University
• Utilization, Challenges, and Best Practices of Open Educational Resources in Illinois Community Colleges

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