Public Financing of STEM Education: Research Evidence and Policy Recommendations
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Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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Zahra Gholami
About
Zahra is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Higher Education program at Florida State University. Her dissertation explores the factors influencing the career decision-making processes of students in STEM fields. In addition to her doctoral work at FSU, she holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Kharazmi University, where she specialized in higher education policy and university-industry collaboration. Her expertise encompasses quantitative and mixed-methods research, large-scale national datasets (IPEDS, BPS, HSLS), and interdisciplinary approaches to higher education reform. Her scholarly interests include institutional change, STEM education and career pathways, and policy studies. As a graduate research assistant on projects such as the NSF ADVANCE Adaptation Project, she has contributed to initiatives designed to enhance women faculty recruitment and retention in STEM. Committed to bridging research and practice, she aims to lead higher education policy and research efforts that foster inclusive academic environments and broaden access to academic and career pathways in STEM.
Work
Florida State University
|Graduate Research Assistant, NSF ADVANCE Adaptation Project
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Florida State University
|Graduate Research Assistant, Emergent Literacy PLC Partnership Project and HBCU Partnership Project
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Florida State University
|Graduate Research Assistant, McKinney-Vento Homeless Program Evaluation
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Afagh Higher Education Institute
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Islamic Azad University, Karaj
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Kharazmi University
|Instructor of Record
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Education
Florida State University
United States of America
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PhD Candidate (Higher Education)
Kharazmi University
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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PhD (Educational Administration)
Shahid Beheshti University
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Master's Degree (Educational Administration)
Urmia University
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Bachelor Degree (Educational Science and Educational Administration)
Publications
A Nuanced Analysis of the Effects of Financial Aid on College Students' Postsecondary Success
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AEFP 2024 - 49th Annual Conference Engaging the Education Ecosystem to Improve Research Relevance and Use
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Individual Differences in Teacher Hopelessness: Examining the Significance of Personal and Professional Factors
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Psychology Hub
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Universities’ educational functions in developing the third generation universities: Designing a conceptual model
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Strategic Studies of Public Policy
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Designing a model for universities’ research functions with auxiliary industry orientation
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Strategic Studies of public policy
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Empowerment as a basic step in upgrading organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors: A case study on public sector in Iran
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World Applied Sciences Journal
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Mediating the role of spiritual leadership on relationship between exercise self-efficacy and professional commitment among physical education teachers
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Educational and Scholastic Studies
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