Dr. Julie Edmunds is Director of the
Early College Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she leads a team doing research on the early college model, dual enrollment, career pathways, and efforts to increase postsecondary access and success. She has been studying early college and dual enrollment for over two decades; her research includes a 20-year experimental study of the impact of early colleges and evaluations of multiple large-scale efforts across the country to apply early college principles to traditional high schools. She is currently leading an in-depth evaluation of the impact, implementation and cost of North Carolina’s statewide dual enrollment program as well as a study examining the transferability of college credits earned in high school. She is also co-Principal Investigator of the Rural Higher Education Research Center. Dr. Edmunds has published multiple award-winning articles and has written, with colleagues, a book on
Early Colleges as a Model for Schooling. Contact:
[email protected]; 336-315-7415Online: earlycollegresearch.uncg.edu; www.linkedin.com/in/julie-edmunds-8835095