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The Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies<\/a> is excited to announce that Karly Ball Isaacson is joining our department this Fall! She is joining the ELPS team following a successful faculty search earlier this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isaacson is joining ELPS as an Assistant Professor of Higher Education beginning in the Fall 2026 term! Her research centers on disability in higher education and her work has primarily focused on chronically ill college students, though she has also become more involved in research on autistic students through her postdoctoral role. Additionally, she is particularly interested in how the high costs associated with some disabilities shape students\u2019 college-going decisions and how financial aid policies often fail to account for those disability-related expenses! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For the past two years before joining the ELPS Department in Knoxville, Isaacson worked as a postdoctoral research associate on a national mixed-methods project focused on autistic college student success. Prior to that, she earned an interdisciplinary PhD and worked on projects at the intersection of special education and higher education for students with disabilities. She also holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree, which has shaped how she thinks about disability equity in higher education through a policy-oriented perspective!
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“I am incredibly honored to be joining such a stellar group of scholars and students. The academic job market has been hard, which makes this opportunity feel all the more meaningful,” said Isaacson. “I feel lucky to be landing in a place that is so well aligned with my work, and it sure does not hurt to know that I will be closer to family and friends who I have missed dearly these past few years. I could not have gotten here without the love and support of a whole lot of folks who have guided and cheered me on along the way. I can\u2019t wait to get started. Go Vols!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies is excited to welcome our new faculty member to the department as we continue our work to enrich the knowledge, skills, and values requisite to effective leadership, teaching, and research in educational settings. ELPS prepares administrators for schools and colleges, faculty for colleges and universities, and policy scholars for service in state, regional and national agencies associated with educational and human service enterprises. For more information on our programs, please visit this page<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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