Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL)

Jeongsan Hwang

She/her/hers

Jeongsan Hwang is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership with a concentration in higher education. She was born and grew up in South Korea, where she earned a bachelor's and master's degree. Before arriving on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, Hwang worked as a research fellow at Ajou Medical School in South Korea, where she helped establish a continuous quality improvement framework for the medical curriculum. Her primary research focus is on quantitative methodology with further interests in cultivating capital for nontraditional students, particularly adult learners; connecting lifelong education with higher education from a policy perspective; and enhancing democratic values in higher education through a civic engagement perspective.

Education

• Ph.D. Student, Higher Education, Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  
• M.A., Human Resource Development & Education of Work, Education; Yonsei University, South Korea
• B.A., Children Development and Family Studies (Dual Major: Communications), Yonsei University, South Korea

Projects

• ASPIRE Regional Collaboratives
• Higher Education Future Tables

Research Areas

• Nontraditional students’ postsecondary pathways
• Adult learning and lifelong education
• Civic education in higher education
• Critical quantitative methodology

Professional Associations

• American Association of Adult and Continuing Education
• American Educational Research Association (Divisions D, L, J)
• Association for the Study of Higher Education
• Council for the Study of Community Colleges