Deborah Faye Carter

Deborah Faye Carter is an associate professor of Higher Education at the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Deborah received her bachelor’s in Sociology and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her master’s and PhD in Higher Education from the University of Michigan.

From 1997 to 2004, Carter worked as an assistant professor of higher education at Indiana University, where she also served as program chair for the Higher Education and Student Affairs program.

After she left Indiana University, she was an associate professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE). Carter served as director of CSHPE from 2006 to 2009.

Carter has won multiple awards pertaining to higher education, including ​​the Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in 1998 and the Harold Johnson Diversity Award from the University of Michigan in 2011. She focuses on higher education, the transition into college, access to college, and equity and inclusion, specifically in the STEM fields.