Karen McClafferty Jarsky

Karen McClafferty Jarsky

Karen McClafferty Jarsky

Associate Director, Executive Writing Center, ELP

Karen Jarsky teaches in the Educational Leadership Program (ELP) and the Social Research Methodology division. She also leads the ELP Executive Writing Center, where she works closely with students to develop their writing skills and increase their confidence as academic writers.

Dr. Jarsky has worked as an academic editor for nearly two decades, providing substantive editing and writing development services to authors and publishers for scholarly and trade articles, books, and monographs covering a range of topics in the social sciences and humanities. Her own research interests focus on the connections between higher education and society, including the transition from K–12 to postsecondary opportunities and the relationship between universities and the local and broader community.

Departments

Programs

Education

  • Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A., Education, University of California, Los Angeles
  • B.A., Sociology, Wesleyan University

Select Publications

  • McDonough, Patricia M., R. Evely Gildersleeve, & Karen M. Jarsky. (2010). The golden cage of rural college access: How higher education can respond to the rural life. In K. A. Schafft & A. Y. Jackson (Eds.), Rural education for the twenty-first century (pp. 191–209). Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Jarsky, Karen M., Patricia M. McDonough & Anne-Marie Nuñez. (2009). Establishing a college culture in secondary schools through P–20 collaboration: A reflective case study. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 8(2), 357–373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538192709347846
  • Rose, Mike, & Karen A. McClafferty. (2001). A call for the teaching of writing in graduate education. Educational Researcher, 30(2), 27–33. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X030002027
  • McClafferty, Karen A., Carlos A. Torres, & Theodore R. Mitchell. (Eds.) (2000). Challenges of urban education: Sociological perspectives for the next century. State University of New York Press.
  • McClafferty, Karen A. (1999). Academic freedom and academic constraint: A comparative case study of faculty perceptions. Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance Monograph 99-12. Houston: University of Houston Law Center.