Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine’s School of Education.

My research has one main aim: to increase access, persistence, and success in higher education for traditionally underserved groups. I approach this broad goal through three related lines of research: (a) understanding how various policies affect how community college students make decisions about majors and transfer, (b) describing patterns of college enrollment by race and socio-economic status over time, and (c) measuring, and then intervening to enhance, students’ self-regulatory skills using interaction data from online classes.