Jihye Kwon

Jihye Kwon, Ph. D. is an Associate Director for Survey Research at the USC Race and Equity Center where she develops The National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates (NACCC) which are quantitative surveys on campus racial climate on student, staff, and faculty administered annually at colleges and universities across the United States. She has been leading the developments of faculty survey as well as surveys for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).

Dr. Kwon also holds an Adjunct Professor position in the Rossier School of Education, where she teaches quantitative and qualitative research methods and higher education courses at the Organizational Change and Leadership (OCL), the Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs (PASA), and the Enrollment Management programs. Dr. Kwon’s research focuses on survey research, institutional research, assessment, and financial issues in higher education. Her research has been published in Educational Researcher, Journal of Higher Education, Educational Research, Journal of Student Financial Aid, and Community College Journal of Research and Practice.

Prior to Joining USC. Dr. Kwon worked as an Analyst for Co-curricular Assessment and Research at Northern Kentucky University. In this role, she provided methodological consultations to university leaders as well as conducted various assessments for the division of student affairs.

EDUC 536 Inquiry Methods II

EDUC 652 Inquiry Methods III

EDUC 689 Fiscal Support and Expenditure in Higher Education

EDUC 690 Framing and Enrollment Management

• Johnson, R. M., Kwon, J., & Trinidad, A. (2025). Campus Racial Climate and Faculty Interactions Among Students of Color at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1–15. https://doi-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/10.1080/10668926.2025.2510283
• Gong, H. J., Kwon, J., & Brock, M. (2022). Experiential learning through a peer learning assistant model in STEM. Educational Research, 64(3), 317-333.
• Chan, M., Kwon, J., Nguyen, D. J., Saunders, K. M., Shah, N., & Smith, K. N. (2020). National Trends in Federal Student Loan Borrowing by Income Group and First-Generation Status. Association for Institutional Research Professional File Series.
• Chan, M., Kwon, J., Nguyen, D. J., Saunders, K. M., Shah, N., & Smith, K. N. (2019). Indebted Over Time: Racial Differences in Student Borrowing. Educational Researcher, 48(8), 558–563.
• Hossler, D., Chung, E., Kwon, J., Lucido, J., Bowman, N., & Bastedo, M. (2019). A Study of the Use of Nonacademic Factors in Holistic Undergraduate Admissions Reviews. The Journal of Higher Education, 90(6), 833-859.