Gloria Crisp

Dr. Gloria Crisp is a Professor of Adult and Higher Education at Oregon State University and currently serves as Associate Dean in the College of Education. With 25 years of experience in community colleges and bachelor’s granting institutions, her work focuses on equity in higher education, particularly for Latinx students and other minoritized populations.

• Research Focus: Transfer pathways, mentoring frameworks, and policies reducing educational inequities
• Key Contributions: Created the College Student Mentoring Scale (CSMS), used globally to assess mentoring effectiveness
• Awards: ASHE 2020 Mentoring Award
• Leadership: Former Editor-in-Chief of New Directions for Institutional Research, President of Council for the Study of Community Colleges (2022-23)

Publications include over 60 articles in journals like American Educational Research Journal and Research in Higher Education, with citations exceeding 10,000. Her co-edited book Unlocking Opportunity through Broadly Accessible Institutions (2022) challenges deficit narratives about broad-access universities.