Denisa Gandara

Denisa Gandara

Southern Methodist University

H-index: 15

North America-United States

About Denisa Gandara

Denisa Gandara, With an exceptional h-index of 15 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Southern Methodist University, specializes in the field of higher education, educational policy, higher education finance.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Fair Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines for Ensuring Equity and Transparency

Assessing Disparities in Predictive Modeling Outcomes for College Student Success: The Impact of Imputation Techniques on Model Performance and Fairness

What motivates state policymakers’ decisions to fund public higher education during economic downturns?

Policy Diffusion in US Higher Education

ERIK C. NESS

“One of the Weakest Budget Players in the State”: State Funding of Higher Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Advancing a framework of racialized administrative burdens in higher education policy

Financing promise programs: Where the money comes from and where the money goes

Denisa Gandara Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

809

Citations(since 2020)

731

Cited By

291

hIndex(all)

15

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

18

i10Index(since 2020)

17

Email

University Profile Page

Southern Methodist University

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Denisa Gandara Skills & Research Interests

higher education

educational policy

higher education finance

Top articles of Denisa Gandara

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Fair Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines for Ensuring Equity and Transparency

AAAI 2024

Parian Haghighat

Denisa G'andara

Lulu Kang

Hadis Anahideh

2024

Assessing Disparities in Predictive Modeling Outcomes for College Student Success: The Impact of Imputation Techniques on Model Performance and Fairness

Education Sciences

Nazanin Nezami

Parian Haghighat

Denisa Gándara

Hadis Anahideh

2024/1/29

What motivates state policymakers’ decisions to fund public higher education during economic downturns?

Denisa Gándara

Meredith S Billings

Paul G Rubin

Lindsey Hammond

2024

Policy Diffusion in US Higher Education

Denisa Gándara

Cameron Woolley

2023/5/13

ERIK C. NESS

Volatility in State Spending for Higher Education

PAUL G RUBIN

DENISA GÁNDARA

JAMES C HEARN

2023/10/30

“One of the Weakest Budget Players in the State”: State Funding of Higher Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Denisa Gándara

Meredith S Billings

Paul G Rubin

Lindsey Hammond

2023/5/8

Advancing a framework of racialized administrative burdens in higher education policy

The Journal of Higher Education

Denisa Gándara

Rosa Maria Acevedo

Diana Cervantes

Marco Antonio Quiroz

2023/9/3

Financing promise programs: Where the money comes from and where the money goes

New Directions for Community Colleges

Meredith S Billings

Amy Y Li

Denisa Gándara

Rosa Acevedo

Diana Cervantes

...

2023/9

Inside the Black Box: Detecting and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias across Racialized Groups in College Student-Success Prediction

arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03784

Denisa Gándara

Hadis Anahideh

Matthew P Ison

Anuja Tayal

2023/1/10

Intermediary public policy organizations and the discursive evasion of systemic racism and racialized violence

Educational policy

Casey McCoy-Simmons

Cecilia M Orphan

Denisa Gándara

2023/9

Supporting Public Policy Engagement for Tenure-Stream Faculty of Color

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

Victoria Kim

Denisa Gándara

Catherine Ramirez

Navdeep Kaur

Michaela Jones

2023/7/4

State higher education funding during COVID-19: Exploring state-level characteristics influencing financing decisions

American Behavioral Scientist

Paul G Rubin

Meredith S Billings

Lindsey Hammond

Denisa Gándara

2023/11

The Free College Handbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Promise Research

Meredith S Billings

Celeste K Carruthers

Gresham D Collum

Denisa Gándara

Douglas N Harris

...

2022

Accountability or equity: Combining topic models and qualitative analysis to examine public rhetoric about performance-based funding

Educational evaluation and policy analysis

Denisa Gándara

Stijn Daenekindt

2022/12

“All Students Matter”: The Place of Race in Discourse on Student Debt in a Federal Higher Education Policymaking Process

Teachers College Record

Eric R Felix

Denisa Gándara

Sosanya Jones

2022

Tuition‐free promise programs: Implications and lessons learned

New Directions for Community Colleges

Meredith S Billings

Denisa Gándara

Amy Y Li

2021/12

Can free community college close racial disparities in postsecondary attainment? How Tulsa Achieves affects racially minoritized student outcomes

American Educational Research Journal

Elizabeth Bell

Denisa Gándara

2021/12

Auditing the Imputation Effect on Fairness of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07908

Hadis Anahideh

Parian Haghighat

Nazanin Nezami

Denisa Gandara

2021/9/13

Are donations bigger in Texas? Analyzing the impact of a policy to match donations to Texas’ emerging research universities

American Educational Research Journal

Xiaodan Hu

Frank Fernandez

Denisa Gándara

2021/8

Promise for whom?“Free-college” programs and enrollments by race and gender classifications at public, 2-year colleges

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Denisa Gándara

Amy Li

2020/12

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Co-Authors

H-index: 43
James C Hearn

James C Hearn

University of Georgia

H-index: 36
Rob Toutkoushian

Rob Toutkoushian

University of Georgia

H-index: 19
Amanda Rutherford

Amanda Rutherford

Indiana University Bloomington

H-index: 18
Erik Ness

Erik Ness

University of Georgia

H-index: 16
Amy Y. Li

Amy Y. Li

Florida International University

H-index: 16
Sosanya Jones

Sosanya Jones

Howard University

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