Dr. Elizabeth Piatt
Biography
Dr. Liz Piatt, Interim Dean for University College, provides leadership and supervision for the McNair Scholars Program and Student Support Services. Dr. Liz was a first-generation college student from a family with limited financial resources, and believes that earning a college degrees had a life-changing effect on her and her family. She spends most of her time ensuring that students who are first in their family to earn a bachelor's degree, have limited financial resources, and are from racial/ethnic groups historically underrepresented in higher education, have a transformative college experience.
Under Dr. Liz's leadership, Kent State was recognized as a First-Gen Forward institution by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) for our commitment to first-generation college student success.
Education
M.A.: Educational Administration-Higher Education Concentration, University of Akron
B.A.: Pan-African Studies, Kent State University
Publications
- Piatt, Liz and N.J. Akbar. 2020. "Learning and Coping: The (Mis)Education of Lip Gallagher" in Shameless Sociology: Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series, edited by Pamela Hunt Kirk and Jennifer Beggs Weber.
- Piatt, Elizabeth, David Merolla, Eboni Pringle and Richard Serpe. 2019. "The role of science identity salience in graduate school enrollment for first-generation, low-income, underrepresented undergraduates." Journal of Negro Education 88:3:269-280.