Education
Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara, 1994
Biography
Dr. Scott L. Thomas is professor of education at the School of Educational Studies. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1994 and has held academic positions at the University of Georgia, the University of Arizona, and the University of Hawaii. At the University of Hawaii, Thomas served as the founding director of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center.
Thomas’ substantive work bridges K-12 and higher education and focuses on issues related to the stratification of educational experiences and opportunities. Topics revolving around college access and success are central themes in his research and teaching. This work can be found in a range of refereed journals, monographs, reports, and book chapters.
In addition to his substantive work, Thomas has devoted a considerable amount of effort to research on methodological issues. As much of his substantive work concerns the structural influences on individual behavior and opportunity, the development and explication of statistical methods capable of modeling such phenomena have also attracted his interest. His work in this area can be found in books, An Introduction to Multilevel Modeling (with Ron Heck) or Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with PASW (SPSS) (with Ron Heck and Lynn Tabata), and related articles in a number of refereed journals and book chapters.
A regular reviewer for several discipline specific journals, Thomas currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Research in Higher Education, the annual Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, the Reading on Equal Education advisory panel, and has served as guest editor for the American Education Research Journal. He is a co-editor of the International Studies in Higher Education series.
He teaches a range of courses in education including Federal Higher Education Policy (EDUC 650), State Higher Education Policy (EDUC 653), Stratification in Higher Education (EDUC 651), and The University & Society (EDUC 652).
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