Kristin Corkhill was selected for the 15-member inaugural cohort of the Postsecondary State Career Technical Education (CTE) Leaders Fellowship at Advance CTE– Sponsored by ECMC Foundation. The 15-month national Fellowship strives to advance diversity state postsecondary Career Technical Education leadership through an intensive experience of workshops, coaching and a real-world project dedicated to build the knowledge and social capital to be a skilled, equity-minded leader. Corkhill has over a decade of program support and partnership experience in secondary and postsecondary education, and currently serves as Director of High School Initiatives at Georgia Piedmont Technical College. A dual-enrollment graduate, she earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in History from the University of Florida and a doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations from Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Kristin J. Corkhill
The Impact of State Funding on Dual Enrollment Participation in Career, Technical and Agricultural Education Programs
This project is aimed at analyzing the state funding models that place caps on student level funding and the impact on CTAE dual enrollment courses and developing a report with recommendations for the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). This will be a mixed-methods study utilizing existing institutional data from one sample college and enrollment trends to predict student participation and persistence.
Advance CTE Fellows are gaining the skills and connections to pursue state leadership positions and advance high-quality, equitable state postsecondary CTE systems.
