Florence A. Hamrick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Office: 515-294-9628
Email: fhamrick@iastate.edu
Homepage: http://www.elps.hs.iastate.edu/hged/hamrickhmpg.php

Education
Ph.D., Higher Education, Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.
M.A., College Student Personnel, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
B.A., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Role in the ISU ADVANCE Program
Dr. Florence Hamrick is a co-PI in the ISU system and joined the co-PI Team and ADVANCE Council in September 2006. Dr. Hamrick became the leader of the ISU ADVANCE Scholar Program (external mentoring program) in April 2008. Since that time, she has updated the Scholar Program informational materials and met with academic deans and department chairs about the Program. She maintains contact with ISU faculty members who are current or prospective ADVANCE Scholars, and she works with the ADVANCE Office and individual ADVANCE Scholars to facilitate scheduling and travel arrangements.

Additionally, she participates with other ADVANCE Council members in presentations to non-focal departments. In Year 3 she presented findings from ADVANCE research at the Women in Educational Leadership Conference (Oct 2008), Mid-American Association for Institutional Research Conference (Nov 2008) and at the University of New Mexico Mentoring Institute Conference: Fostering a Mentoring Culture in the 21st Century: Bringing Best Practices and Research to Higher Education.

In Years 1 and 2 Dr. Hamrick was a member of the Research Team and worked with focal departments engaged in the Collaborative Transformation project.

Research Focuses

• equity, access, and success in higher education
• women faculty members and academic work
• professionalism and professional ethics
• social science research methodologies and methods