Kelly Rosinger

Kelly Rosinger is an associate professor at Penn State University and Co-Director at the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative. Her research examines the barriers students face going to and through college and how postsecondary policies and practices, shape educational outcomes. Her current work considers how various aspects of postsecondary policies reduce (or exacerbate) racial and economic disparities in educational outcomes and how policies can be designed with equity in mind. 

Kelly has published research in Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, AERA Open, Education Finance and Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Review of Higher Education, The Journal of Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education, among others. Her work has been highlighted by The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed, among others.

Kelly was an Institute of Education Sciences’ postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia. She earned a PhD in higher education and master’s degree in public administration, both from the University of Georgia, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously worked as an assistant director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Georgia.