COLLEGE PARK, MD (December, 2015) Dr. Alberto Cabrera, Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education (CHSE), was honored with the Mentor of the Year award at the national conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), held in Denver this November.
ASHE offers the Mentor of the Year award annually to honor the noteworthy contributions made by a member in mentoring developing scholars in the organization. Each recipient has made extraordinary and sustained contributions to the professional and scholarly development of emerging scholars in ASHE and in the field of higher education. In 2011, fellow UMD faculty member Dr. Sharon Fries-Britt received the award, highlighting the importance of mentoring for faculty in the College of Education.
Dr. Cabrera’s research focuses on the impact of college on students, college choice, classroom experiences, minorities in higher education, and college outcomes. He has authored numerous articles, reports, and papers, and presented his research at international conferences. His work has such honors as the H. S. Warwick Award for Outstanding Published Scholarship in Alumni Relations and the ASHE Early Career Award. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, he was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (where he earned his Ph.D.), Penn State University, SUNY Albany, and Arizona State University. He has served on a number of advisory boards, the National College Access Network's board of directors, and the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education and Research in Higher Education, and Revista Complutense de Educacion.
In 2009-10, on a Fulbright award, Dr. Cabrera worked with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and the Federal University of Santa Maria (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria or UFSM) to develop performance indicators for assessing classroom teaching practices and student learning among Brazilian college students. He has conducted workshops on frameworks and methods for studying college persistence in Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. In 2012, he was inducted as an AERA Fellow in recognition of sustained achievement in education research.
Click here to learn more about Dr. Cabrera and his work.
-end-
For more information on the College of Education, visit: www.education.umd.edu
Media contact
Joshua Lavender, Communications Coordinator, at: lavender@umd.edu
