Chris Broadhurst

Chris Broadhurst is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education and holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from North Carolina State University. He joined the University of New Orleans in 2013 and brings nearly 20 years of teaching experience at a variety of institutional types, including an early college, a community college, a 4-year liberal arts college, and 3 different research universities. His teaching expertise focuses on organizational structures, cultures, and change in higher education. His research utilizes historical, quantitative, and qualitative methods to examine the impact of campus activism on organizational change. His most recent research has examined how administrators and staff engage in grassroots activism to foster inclusive campuses for students from marginalized groups. He regularly presents at national conferences and, besides his multiple research studies published in academic journals, he has also edited a monograph titled Radical academia?: Understanding the climates for campus activists.