Collaboration
Associated Research Projects
Higher Education Employees Research
In 2024, Dr. Krista Soria and a team of amazing doctorate students (Erin Standley, Stacey Vakanski, Leanna Dann, Francine Hoffman, Jake Connley, Elise Kokenge, Laila Cornwall, Zach Wnek, Daisy Aguilera-Gonzalez, Deanna Bakken, and Justin Braun) are conducting a study on higher education employees' experiences with burnout, turnover intentions, and engagement. We used webscraping techniques to pull employees' contact information from colleges/universities across the nation and randomly selected participants for the survey. The survey includes the following constructs:
- burnout, work-life variables, and turnover intentions
- trauma-informed practices and beliefs
- employees' mental health and experiences with basic needs insecurity
- thriving and flourishing
- emotional labor and work gratitude
In connection with the work of the AREAS Consortium, we are planning to examine differences in higher education employees' experiences based upon the location of their college/university (i.e., rural, urban, town, suburb) and location of their home/community of upbringing. We will use the Community Assets and Relative Rurality Index as one of our measures of rurality, so we are collecting location data by the latitude and longitude of employees' college/university and home/community of upbringing.
We have received University of Idaho IRB approval to conduct the research.
You can view our related research here:
Soria, K. M., Kokenge, E., Heath, C. A., Standley, E. C., Wilson, S. J. F., Connley, J. R., & Agramon, A. I. (2024). Looking inward: Academic advisors’ mental health. NACADA Journal, 44(1), 66–80.
Soria, K. M., Kokenge, E., Heath, C. A., Standley, E. C., Wilson, S. J. F., Connley, J. R., & Agramon, A. I. (2024). Factors associated with academic advisors’ burnout. NACADA Journal, 43(2), 105–120.
Soria, K. M. (2024, October). Looking inward: Academic advisors’ mental health [Conference presentation]. NACADA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
College Students with Disabilities
We have partnered with the National Center for College Students with Disabilities (NCCSD) to collect data on students' use of disability-related accommodations. The NCCSD provided guidance on measures related to disability, disability-related accommodations, and foster care experience.