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Linda Sax

Faculty Director
Masters in Student Affairs
Associate Professor
Higher Education and Organizational Change

3335 Moore Hall

(310) 206 5875

lsax@ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1994
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1990

Research Interests

Gender differences in college student development, specifically how institutional characteristics, peer and faculty environments, and forms of student involvement may differentially affect male and female college students. Women in higher education, student development, undergraduate science education, single-sex education, higher education assessment.

Current Academic Year Courses

ED 419, Introduction to Research in Student Affairs, Winter 2008
ED 209C, Problems in Research and Evaluation of Higher Education; Winter 2008
ED 221, Computer Analysis of Empirical Data in Education; Spring 2008

Recent Publications

Sax, L. J. & Arms, E. (In press, March 2008).  Gender Difference Over the Span of College: Challenges to Achieving Equity.  Journal About Women in Higher Education.

Sax, L. J. (2007).  College Women Still Face Many Obstacles in Reaching their Full Potential.  The Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (5): B46.

Sax, L. J. & Harper, C.  (2007).  Origins of the Gender Gap: Pre-College and College Influences on the Differences between Men and Women. Research in Higher Education, 48 (6): 669-694.

Sax, L. J. & Bryant, A. N.  (2006).  The Impact of College on Sex-Atypical Career Choices of Men and Women. The Journal of Vocational Behavior, 68: 52-63.

Sax, L. J., Bryant, A. N., & Harper, C.  (2005).  The Differential Effects of Student-Faculty Interaction on College Outcomes for Women and Men.  The Journal of College Student Development, 46 (6): 642-659.

Sax, L. J., Bryant, A. N., & Gilmartin, S. K.  (2004). A Longitudinal Investigation of Emotional Health Among Male and Female First-year College Students. Journal of the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, 16(2): 39-65.



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