Felice Billups

Professor

JWU Faculty Since 2000

Felice D. Billups

Contact Info

Email
felice.billups@jwu.edu
Phone
401-598-1924
Campus
Providence

Felice Billups joined Johnson & Wales University after working for nearly 30 years as a college administrator, specializing in educational research, strategic planning, institutional accreditation and program review/assessment.

Dr. Billups teaches courses in research methods, in organizational theory/behavior and in higher education as a field of practice. Her research focuses on collegiate culture/subcultures, qualitative and mixed methods research approaches, organizational effectiveness, and the doctoral student experience.

Education

  • Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration, George Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University
  • M.A.,Higher Education Administration, Rhode Island College
  • B.A., Fine Arts History, Tufts University

I teach courses in research methods and in organizational theory/behavior. My research focuses on collegiate culture/subcultures, qualitative and mixed methods research approaches, organizational effectiveness, and the doctoral student experience

Courses

  • EDUC 7006: Research I: Educational Research for Higher Education Leaders
  • EDUC 7031: Organizational Theory & Behavior in Higher Education
  • EDUC 7021: Nature of Higher Education
  • EDUC 9005: The Field Research Project
  • EDUC 9010: Doctoral Dissertation
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Professional Affiliations

Board of Directors for Rhode Island State Representative, New England Educational Research Organization
Board of Directors, Northeastern Educational Research Association
Strategic Planning Committee, NEAIR
Editorial Board, International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Editorial Board, Planning for Higher Education Journal
Reviewer, Impacting Education Journal (CPED)
Textbook Reviewer, Sage Publishing
American Educational Research Association
Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics: Data Science and Institutional Research Subgroup
International Institute for Qualitative Methodology
Mixed Methods International Research Association
New England Educational Research Organization
Northeast Association for Institutional Research
Society for College and University Planning

Certificate, Human Subjects Research Training (CITI Program), #29476648
Protecting Human Research Participants (PHRP) Certification, #1328332 National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Extramural Research Certification
Certificate, Management of Nonprofit/Arts Organizations, URI