Rate My Professor Jason Tayor

Jason L. Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah, where he also serves as Assistant Dean for Transfer Student Success in Undergraduate Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a specialization in evaluation methods and a concentration in public policy. Prior to academia, Taylor worked as an academic advisor at Illinois State University advising new freshmen and transfer students, served as Registrar at Chaparral College in Tucson, Arizona, and interned in institutional research offices at Parkland College and the College of Lake County, both in Illinois. He further participated in a research internship at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and was selected as a research intern for the Higher Learning Commission. As a first-generation college graduate, Taylor's personal and professional experiences inform his commitment to equity in higher education.

Taylor's scholarship examines how higher education and community college policies and practices shape educational opportunity structures for marginalized and underrepresented students, encompassing college access, transition, identity and success, and affordability. He has led quantitative and mixed-methods studies on college readiness, developmental education, adult pathways to college, dual credit and early college experiences, transfer policy and reverse transfer, LGBTQ students, career and technical education, and access and equity. Taylor has secured over one million dollars in external research grants, published 28 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, two edited books, and 37 policy and evaluation reports. His work appears in journals including American Behavioral Scientist, Community College Review, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, New Directions for Community Colleges, and The Review of Higher Education, as well as reports for the Institute for Higher Education Policy, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Michigan Center for Student Success, and others. Select publications include Research Priorities for Advancing Equitable Dual Enrollment Policy and Practice (2022), Unpacking Implementation Capacity and Contexts for Degree Reclamation Strategies (2021, Education Policy Analysis Archives), Examining the Educational and Employment Outcomes of Reverse Credit Transfer (2021, AERA Open), Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Context (2020, edited book), and Modeling the Effect of the Reverse Credit Transfer Associate’s Degree (2019, Review of Higher Education).