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Garrett D. Hoffman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Higher Education
University of Southern Mississippi
Education/Degree:
1 Organizational leadership, policy, & development (University of Minnesota)
About
Garrett D. Hoffman is a visiting assistant professor of higher education at the University of Southern Mississippi. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in organizational leadership, policy, and development; an MA from the University of Missouri in student affairs leadership; and a BA from Carleton College in women's and gender studies. Working from a poststructural perspective, his research explores the neoliberalization of higher education, particularly how it influences diversity programming and cultural centers.
Current Work
Dr. Hoffman's research agenda and extant scholarship focus on the impact of neoliberalism on diversity, equity, and minoritized student success in higher education. Broadly, his work is situated within scholarship on college student success and the efficacy of support services for minoritized students. His current research interrogates a central goal of higher education, student success, and examines how leaving this concept undelineated and undefined has implications for equity. Dr. Hoffman situates this inquiry within cultural centers and diversity programming on college campuses to show how the very structures and programming meant to facilitate minoritized student success operate to uphold existing hierarchies of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation and constrain ways of being for minoritized students.