Body Capital Research team
Claire Wladis, Ph.D.
Claire Wladis, Ph.D., is the Director of the City University of New York (CUNY) Excellence Through Education Research Group, Professor of Mathematics at BMCC/CUNY and of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. Their research focuses on a wide range of subfields in mathematics education and higher education, with a unifying focus on understanding how educational institutions may better center and adapt to the needs of the students who attend them. This includes research on how students think about core algebra concepts, how we can accurately measure this thinking, and how we can use this information to improve instruction; how our particular conceptualization and implementation of developmental and “college-level” mathematics courses may improve or worsen access to college and STEM degrees; how the availability of online courses may help or hinder degree progress for students; how time and energy as resources for college may impact academic and non-academic outcomes in college; how students successfully navigate existing higher education structures; and how culture, policies, and practices may enable or disable students from obtaining a college or STEM degree.
Contact: cwladis@bmcc.cuny.edu
Alyse C. Hachey, Ph.D.
Alyse C. Hachey, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Teacher Education Department, Director of the Division of BELSS [Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies], and Lead Early Childhood Faculty in the College ofEducation at The University of Texas at El Paso. She is Co-PI on NSF grants related to access and retention in post-secondary education and other grants related to teacher preparation at HSIs. Her teaching and research interests focus on early childhood STEM cognition and curriculum development and post-secondary STEM learning and retention, particularly for populations often designated at high-risk of dropout.
Catherine A. Manly, Ph.D.
Dr. Manly has a Ph.D. in Higher Education from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an assistant professor of Higher Education-Data Analytics at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her research focuses on how the flexibility of educational design and delivery can address the under-acknowledged needs of students traditionally underserved by higher education, as well as what administrative and academic supports lead to optimal educational pathways that minimize time to degree given varied student needs.
