Denisa Gandara

Experience

• 2015–present
  Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University

Education

• 2016 
  University of Georgia, Ph.D.
• 2011 
  The University of Texas at Austin, B.A.

Publications

• 2019
  The Journal of Higher Education, How the Sausage is Made: An Examination of a State Funding Model Design Process.
• 2019
  Teachers College Record, College Completion, the Texas Way: An Examination of the Development of College Completion Policy in a Distinctive Political Culture.
• 2019
  The Journal of Higher Education, Ideological Think Tank Activity and the Politics of College Affordability in the States.
• 2019
  The Review of Higher Education, Does Evidence Matter? An Analysis of Evidence Use in Performance-Funding Policy Designs in Two States.
• 2018
  Research in Higher Education, Mitigating Unintended Impacts? The Effects of Premiums for Underserved Populations in Performance-Funding Policies for Higher Education. Research in Higher Education, 59(6), 681-703.
• 2018
  Community College Review, Do Performance-Funding Policies Disadvantage Two-Year Minority-Serving Institutions?
• 2017
  , Outcomes- Based Funding and Race in Higher Education. Can Equity Be Bought?
• 2017
  The Journal of Higher Education, Exploring the “How” in Policy Diffusion: A National Intermediary Organization’s Role in Facilitating the Spread of Performance Funding Policies in the States.
• 2017
  Journal of Education Finance, Updated Estimates of the Average Financial Return on Master’s Degree Programs in the United States.
• 2014
  Educational Policy, Ideological Think Tanks in the States: An Inventory of their Prevalence, Networks, and Higher Education Policy Activity.