Rashné Jehangir, associate professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, has been awarded the Horace T. Morse – University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. Jehangir has dedicated her career to improving the academic programs and classroom experiences of undergraduates in the university and across the country through her educational leadership, exemplary teaching, and research. Her emphasis on first generation and bypassed student populations, the most difficult to retain, is exemplary work that has made a measurable difference in retention. She will be honored at the Distinguished Teaching Awards Ceremony on campus April 8.

In a recent interview by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), Jehangir’s work is highlighted as part of a series featuring the work on social class scholars. The Socioeconomic and Class Issues in Higher Education Knowledge Community within NAPSA is sponsoring this year long series to showcase scholars whose work informs how SES and issues of class impact and alter the college and university landscape. Access Jehangir’s interview here.