ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMS Office of Academic Planning & Assessment (OAPA) 232 Whitmore Administration Building University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-0736 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Sociology, 2000. Dissertation: "The Illusion of Local Aid: Extractive and Distributive Effects of the Massachusetts State Lottery on Cities and Towns" Comprehensive exam paper: "The Plan to Save Atlantic City: Consequences of Community Disarticulation for Central City Revitalization" Areas of specialization: Survey Research, Community Sociology, Political Economy M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Sociology, 1990 B.A. Connecticut College, 1987 (Cum Laude) Majors: Sociology and English PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012-Present Director of Survey and Evaluation Research, Office of Academic Planning & Assessment (OAPA), University of Massachusetts Amherst. Responsibilities include: collaborating with other University areas to coordinate and centrally organize campus-wide, school/college, and department-specific survey research activities; directing activities related to survey research to support educational effectiveness; consulting on evaluation research design and survey construction for academic departments, other units, and individual faculty members, and providing other survey research services; organizing and coordinating the dissemination of research findings throughout the campus community and more broadly by directing the production of written reports and web-postings. 2003-Present Adjunct Faculty, Higher Education Concentration, Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Responsibilities include: teaching in the Higher Education Administration graduate program, supervising independent study, advising graduate students, chairing and serving on comprehensive exam and dissertation committees. 1999-2012 Associate Director for Research, Student Assessment, Research and Evaluation Office (SAREO, formerly SARIS), Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Responsibilities include: directing a web-based survey research operation, meeting with clients to discuss their research needs, developing surveys, developing self- administered questionnaires, consulting services, statistical data analysis, drawing random samples from student data base, programming web-based survey software, utilizing optical mark reading scanner, writing technical reports, conducting focus-groups, supervising three graduate research assistants and approximately forty undergraduate student workers, managing day-to-day office operations. Elizabeth A. Williams Page 2 1991-1999 Research Associate (30 hrs per week), Student Affairs Research, Information, and Systems Office (SARIS), University of Massachusetts Amherst. Responsibilities included: directing a weekly telephone polling operation, meeting with clients to discuss their research needs, developing telephone surveys, developing self-administered questionnaires, statistical data analysis, drawing random samples from student data base, programming computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) software, utilizing optical mark reading scanner, writing technical reports, conducting focus-groups, supervising two graduate research assistants and approximately forty undergraduate student workers, managing day- to-day office operations. 1988-91 Director of Project Pulse (20 hrs per week), Student Affairs Research and Evaluation Office (SAREO), University of Massachusetts Amherst. Responsibilities included: acting as field supervisor for 20-25 undergraduate telephone interviewers, developing surveys, analyzing data, writing technical reports. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Williams, E. A., Kolek, E. A., Saunders, D. B., Remaly, A., and Wells, R. S. (2018). Mirror on the field: Gender, authorship, and research methods in higher education’s leading journals. The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 89, No. 1, 28-53. Saunders, D. B., Kolek, E. A., Williams, E. A., and Wells, R. S. (2016). Who is shaping the field? Doctoral education, knowledge creation and postsecondary education research in the United States, Higher Education Research & Development, DOI:10.1080/07294360.2016.1139552 Wells, R., Kolek, E. A., Williams, E. A. and Saunders, D. B. (2015). “How We Know What We Know”: A Systematic Comparison of Research Methods Employed in Higher Education Journals, 1996-2000 v. 2006-2010. The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, 171-198. Barnes, B. J. and Williams, E.A. (2012). Dissecting Doctoral Advising: A Comparison of Students’ Experiences Across Disciplines. Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol. 36, No.3, 309-331. Barnes, B.J., Chard, L. A., Wolfe, E. W., Stassen, M.A., and Williams, E.A. (2011.) An Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Graduate Advising Survey for Doctoral Students. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, Vol. 6, 1-17. Laguilles, J. S., Williams, E.A., and Saunders, Daniel B. (2011). Can Lottery Incentives Boost Web Survey Response Rates? Findings from Four Experiments. Research in Higher Education, Vol. 52, 537-553. Horowitz, R., Aierstuck, S., Williams, E., and Melby, B. (2010). Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in a University Health Population: Clinical Manifestations, Epidemiology and Implications, Journal of American College Health, Vol. 59, No. 2, 69-74. Barnes, B. J., Williams, E. A., and Archer, S. A. (2010). Characteristics That Matter Most: Doctoral Students’ Perceptions of Positive and Negative Advisor Attributes. NACADA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, 34-46. Elizabeth A. Williams Page 3 Zuniga, X., Williams, E. A. and Berger, J. B. (2005). Action-oriented Democratic Outcomes: The Impact of Student Involvement with Campus Diversity. Journal of College Student Development. Vol. 46, No.6, 660-678. Malaney, G. D., Williams, E. A., and Geller, W. (1997). Assessing Campus Climate for Gays, Lesbian and Bisexuals at Two Institutions. Journal of College Student Development. Vol. 38, No. 4, 365-375. Williams, E. A. and Malaney, G. D. (1996). Assessing the Political Ideology and Activism of College Students: Reactions to the Persian Gulf War. NASPA Journal. Vol. 33, No. 2, 145-160. Malaney, G. D. and Williams, E. A. (1994). Anti-Semitism on Campus. NASPA Journal. Vol. 31, No. 4, 252-262. Williams, E. A., Lam, J. A., and Shively, M. (1992). The Impact of a University Policy on the Sexual Harassment of Female Students. The Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 63, No.1, 50-64. Williams, E. A. (1991). College Students and Recycling: Their Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of College Student Development, 32, 86-88. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Williams, E.A. and Stassen, M. L. S. (2017). Context matters: Using qualitative inquiry to inform departmental effectiveness and student success, in E. Kimball and K. I. Loya (Eds.), Using Qualitative Research to Promote Organizational Intelligence. New Directions for Institutional Research, No. 174. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Williams, E. A. and Gibbons, Y. (2002). Training and Retaining IT Talent. Massachusetts Benchmarks, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 18-22. Williams, E. A. , Kolek, E. and Kluge, M. (2002). Is Being “Plugged In” Changing Campus Life? A Conversation. Student Affairs Online. Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter). Williams, E. A., and Anderson, C. (1999). Applying Useful Technologies in Student Affairs Research, in G. D. Malaney (Ed.), Student Affairs Research, Evaluation and Assessment: Structure and Practice in an Era of Change. New Directions for Student Services, No. 85. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. TEACHING EXPERIENCE GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES Instructor for EDUC 671, Survey Research Methods (S20, S19, F17, F16, F15, S14, S12, F11, S10, S09, S08, S07, S06) Instructor for EDUC 641, Student Life Research (F14, F13, F12, F11, F10, F09, F08, F07, F06, F05, F04, F03) Co-instructor for EDUC 615K, Student Life Research (F02) Instructor for EDUC 682, Doctoral Seminar II (S13, S04, S05) Instructor for EDUC 844, History of Higher Education in America (S11, S12) Elizabeth A. Williams Page 4 UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES Instructor for EDUC 115, Embracing Diversity (S97) Instructor for SOC 106, Race, Sex and Social Class (W97) Instructor for SOC 383, Sociology of Sex Roles (SM94) Instructor for SOC 110, Introduction to Sociology (W94) Grader for SOC 242, Drugs and Society (F88) Teaching Assistant for SOC 103, Social Problems (F87, S88) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION Co-presented (with Alicia Remaly) Survey Research Methods: Key Aspects and Best Practices, a one-day workshop at the Northeast Association for Institutional Research conference, Newport, RI, November, 2019. Co-presented (with Alicia Remaly) Survey Research Methods: Key Aspects and Best Practices, a one-day workshop at the Association for Institutional Research conference, Denver, CO, November, 2018. Co-presented (with Joshua Bittinger) Survey Research Methods: Key Aspects and Best Practices, a one-day workshop at the Northeast Association for Institutional Research conference, Jersey City, NJ, November, 2017. Faculty member at the NASPA Assessment and Research Institute: Tempe, AZ, February 22-24, 2001; Tempe, AZ, January 25-27, 2001. Presented a workshop on computer-assisted telephone interviewing at the NASPA Summer Applied Research Institute, Palm Springs, CA, June 15-18, 2000. GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED Stroud, A. H. (2015) Should I stay or should I go? Factors impacting