2021
Bell, E. & Gándara, D. (2021). Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes. American Educational Research Journal (Online First).
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2020
Gándara, D., & Li, A. (2020). Promise for Whom? “Free-College” Programs and Enrollments by Race and Gender Classifications at Public, 2-Year Colleges. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
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2020
Gándara, D., & Jones, S. (2020). Who Deserves Benefits in Higher Education? A Policy Discourse Analysis of a Process Surrounding Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. The Review of Higher Education, 44(1), 121-157.
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2020
Hu, X., Fernandez, F., Gándara, D. (2020). The New Rich: Analyzing the Impact of Matching Donations to Emerging Research Universities in Texas. American Educational Research Journal (Online First).
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2020
Gándara, D., & Rutherford, A. (2020). Completion at the Expense of Access? The Relationship Between Performance-Funding Policies and Access to Public 4-Year Universities. Educational Researcher, 49(5), 321-334.
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2020
Li, A. & Gándara, D. The Promise of “Free” Tuition and Program Design Features: Impacts on First-Time College Enrollment. In L.W. Perna & E.J. Smith (Eds.). Improving Research-Based Knowledge of College Promise Programs.
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2020
Gándara, D. (2020). How the Sausage is Made: An Examination of a State Funding Model Design Process. The Journal of Higher Education.
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2019
Gándara, D. Does Evidence Matter? An Analysis of Evidence Use in Performance-Funding Policy Designs in Two States. Review of Higher Education.
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2019
Gándara, D. & Ness, E.C. Ideological Think Tank Activity and the Politics of College Affordability in the States. The Journal of Higher Education.
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2019
Gándara, D. & Hearn, J.C. College Completion, the Texas Way: An Examination of the Development of College Completion Policy in a Distinctive Political Culture. Teachers College Record.
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2018
Li, A., Gándara, D., & Assalone, A. Do Performance-Funding Policies Disadvantage Two-Year Minority-Serving Institutions? Community College Review.
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2018
Gándara, D. & Rutherford, A. Mitigating unintended impacts? The effects of premiums for underserved populations in performance-funding policies for higher education. Research in Higher Education.
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2017
Gándara, D. & Toutkoushian, R. Updated Estimates of the Average Financial Return on Master’s Degree Programs in the United States. Journal of Education Finance.
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2017
Gándara, D., Ness, E.C., & Rippner, J. Exploring the “How” in Policy Diffusion: A National Intermediary Organization’s Role in Facilitating the Spread of College Completion Policies in the States. The Journal of Higher Education.
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2017
Jones, T., Jones, S., Owens, L., Assalone, A., Elliott, K., & Gándara, D. Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2016
Gándara, D. “College students, state policies, and undocumented status.” In Contemporary Issues for People of Color: Surviving and Thriving in the U.S. Today (5 of 5 volumes - Immigration/Migration), Eds. Alvaro Huerta, Norma Iglesias-Prieto and Donathan L. Brown. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO / Greenwood.
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2015
Ness, E.C., Deupree, M.M., & Gándara, D. Campus Responses to Outcomes-Based Funding in Tennessee: Robust, Aligned and Contested. Nashville: Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
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2014
Ness, E.C. & Gándara, D. (2014). Ideological Think Tanks in the States: An Inventory of their Prevalence, Networks, and Higher Education Policy Activity. Educational Policy, 28(2), 258- 280.
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