Associate Director of Ed.D. Program

Office: 3035 Tahoe Hall
Office Phone: (916) 278-5955
Email: jezs@saclink.csus.edu

Background Information

Jez received a BA in statistics, with a minor in public policy, from UC Berkeley, and an MA in economics and a PhD in administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.

Jez serves on the Leadership Board for the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity's (SEO) San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Chapter. SEO supports underserved students in New York City through mentorship and tutoring and supports college students of color nationwide in career development. In her role on the SF Bay Area Board, Jez organizes social and philanthropic events, along with events to support students of color in their summer internships and welcome them to the alumni group upon their return.

She is currently an Associate in the National Center for Higher Education and Public Policy's Associates Program and received dissertation fellowships from the American Educational Research Association Minority Fellowship in Education Research (2007-08), the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Fellowship (2007-08), the Association for the Study of Higher Education/Lumina Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006-07), and Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant (2007).

Through her teaching, scholarship, and service Su Jin Gatlin Jez aims to strengthen student access, persistence, and success in postsecondary education, particularly for traditionally underserved students. Her work largely focuses on the role of middle and secondary schools in improving students' ability to be ready for and succeed in college. She is increasingly interested what can be learned from other countries that are grappling with similar issues.

research: Most recently, Jez's research has focused on middle and high school reform efforts targeted to improve college readiness, access, and success. She works with schools, universities, governmental agencies, nonprofits, and foundations to improve programs and policies that create and support pathways for all students to achieve their postsecondary educational goals.

Jez performs a variety of econometric analyses, including time-series analysis, multi-level modeling, and advanced regression modeling, all widely used in scientifically based research. She also performs qualitative analyses, from interviews and focus groups to the analysis of primary documents.

Prior to joining Sac State in 2009, Jez was a Research Associate at WestEd where a significant amount of her research and technical assistance work was focused on supporting early college schools and community colleges.

Previously, Jez worked on several research projects designed to improve educational outcomes for marginalized students. Being interested in youth who never fully connect with society, Jez designed and led a mixed-methods research project studying a school focused on reconnecting dropouts.

Publications

She coauthored a paper with Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond examining the role of teacher credentialing on student academic achievement and worked on projects studying the effects of the elimination of affirmative action at the University of California (UC) with UC Berkeley Professor Jerome Karabel. Jez researched and drafted summaries to support Karabel's writing of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which won numerous book awards, including the American Sociological Association's 2007 Distinguished Book Award. Prior to this work, Jez served as an investment banking analyst at JPMorgan.