Nathaniel J. Bray is a Professor of Higher Education Administration and Associate Director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama. Dr. Bray has an active research agenda that has covered a wide array of student and organizational issues. He has over 40 publications on various college and university functions; his work has been cited in over 800 other works and has been presented at multiple conferences nationally and internationally. He also co-edited the New Directions for Higher Education volume entitled Codes of conduct in academia. Bray has spent multiple terms on the editorial boards of journals such as the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of General Education, Journal of Higher Education Athletics and Innovation, and the advisory board of the ASHE Higher Education Report Monograph series. Dr. Bray has worked actively with the Education Policy Center, which received the 2016 ASHE CPPHE Excellence in Higher Education Policy Award for work with Pell Grants. Center work has led to multiple funded research projects on topics such as return on investment for the Higher Education Partnership of Alabama (2015), Alabama AGSC STARS transfer evaluation, and study on Alabama Pell grants, as well as an NSF Broadening Grant looking at community college faculty course revision in introductory STEM field courses. Phone: 205-348-1159
This work builds upon an analysis of regional universities that began in 2009, to build a geograp... more This work builds upon an analysis of regional universities that began in 2009, to build a geographically-based, quantifiable definition of the nation\u27s regional universities. It builds on efforts begun by Katsinas (1993) to geographically map access oriented community colleges, which resulted in the geographic coding of Associate\u27s Colleges as part of the 2005 and 2010 Basic Classification of Institutions of Higher Education published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Katsinas, Lacey, & Hardy, 2005). Key findings 1. Wide variation in salaries and fringe benefits based upon geographic region served. 2. Wide variation in salaries and fringe benefits based if collective bargaining exists. 3. Access institutions need a 21st century classification scheme to reflect mission, workloa
This article categorizes institutions under both the 2015 Carnegie Basic Classification system an... more This article categorizes institutions under both the 2015 Carnegie Basic Classification system and the mission-driven classification system, and further analyzes both by the presence of a collective bargaining agreement. The goal of this article was to use the presentation of data on revenue, employment numbers, salary outlays, and the presence or lack of collective bargaining agreements to identify any differences between the new “Mission-Driven” classification system in direct comparison with the 2015 Carnegie Basic Classification system in recognizing the results of unionization on monetary compensation for higher education employees.
Recommended Citation McCreary, Gentry; Bray, Nathaniel Ph.D.; and Thoma, Stephen Ph.D. (2016) &qu... more Recommended Citation McCreary, Gentry; Bray, Nathaniel Ph.D.; and Thoma, Stephen Ph.D. (2016) "Bad Apples or Bad Barrels? Moral Disengagement, Social Influence, and the Perpetuation of Hazing in the College Fraternity," Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors: Vol. 11 : Iss. 2 , Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25774/pvbg-9c47 Available at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/oracle/vol11/iss2/3
In this article the authors examine characterizations of faculty-administrator relationships, in ... more In this article the authors examine characterizations of faculty-administrator relationships, in particular as related to shared governance. Two primary perspectives guided the study. The first perspective focused on the fragile nature of shared governance, characterized by a lack of harmony and mistrust. The second perspective focused on the root of faculty-administrator tension as both cultural and structural in nature. The study illuminates problems associated with shared governance, attributed primarily to the conflicting cultures within which faculty and administrators work. As well, the authors articulate a three dimentional frame including holistic descriptions, participant perceptions, and participant behaviors, which characterize the dynamics of faculty-administrator relationships. Dispositional contexts associated with these relationships are further examined. Background The faculty-administrator relationship in colleges and universities is Central to the effectiveness of ...
... EJ614288 - The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Dec... more ... EJ614288 - The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Decisions. ... Title: The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Decisions. Authors: Bray, Nathaniel J.; Braxton, John M.; Sullivan, Anna Shaw. ...
This work builds upon an analysis of regional universities that began in 2009, to build a geograp... more This work builds upon an analysis of regional universities that began in 2009, to build a geographically-based, quantifiable definition of the nation\u27s regional universities. It builds on efforts begun by Katsinas (1993) to geographically map access oriented community colleges, which resulted in the geographic coding of Associate\u27s Colleges as part of the 2005 and 2010 Basic Classification of Institutions of Higher Education published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Katsinas, Lacey, & Hardy, 2005). Key findings 1. Wide variation in salaries and fringe benefits based upon geographic region served. 2. Wide variation in salaries and fringe benefits based if collective bargaining exists. 3. Access institutions need a 21st century classification scheme to reflect mission, workloa
This article categorizes institutions under both the 2015 Carnegie Basic Classification system an... more This article categorizes institutions under both the 2015 Carnegie Basic Classification system and the mission-driven classification system, and further analyzes both by the presence of a collective bargaining agreement. The goal of this article was to use the presentation of data on revenue, employment numbers, salary outlays, and the presence or lack of collective bargaining agreements to identify any differences between the new “Mission-Driven” classification system in direct comparison with the 2015 Carnegie Basic Classification system in recognizing the results of unionization on monetary compensation for higher education employees.
Recommended Citation McCreary, Gentry; Bray, Nathaniel Ph.D.; and Thoma, Stephen Ph.D. (2016) &qu... more Recommended Citation McCreary, Gentry; Bray, Nathaniel Ph.D.; and Thoma, Stephen Ph.D. (2016) "Bad Apples or Bad Barrels? Moral Disengagement, Social Influence, and the Perpetuation of Hazing in the College Fraternity," Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors: Vol. 11 : Iss. 2 , Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25774/pvbg-9c47 Available at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/oracle/vol11/iss2/3
In this article the authors examine characterizations of faculty-administrator relationships, in ... more In this article the authors examine characterizations of faculty-administrator relationships, in particular as related to shared governance. Two primary perspectives guided the study. The first perspective focused on the fragile nature of shared governance, characterized by a lack of harmony and mistrust. The second perspective focused on the root of faculty-administrator tension as both cultural and structural in nature. The study illuminates problems associated with shared governance, attributed primarily to the conflicting cultures within which faculty and administrators work. As well, the authors articulate a three dimentional frame including holistic descriptions, participant perceptions, and participant behaviors, which characterize the dynamics of faculty-administrator relationships. Dispositional contexts associated with these relationships are further examined. Background The faculty-administrator relationship in colleges and universities is Central to the effectiveness of ...
... EJ614288 - The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Dec... more ... EJ614288 - The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Decisions. ... Title: The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Decisions. Authors: Bray, Nathaniel J.; Braxton, John M.; Sullivan, Anna Shaw. ...
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