Claire Boeck
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership
PhD, University of Michigan (higher and postsecondary education)
MA, University of Chicago (humanities)
BA, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (art history)
Biography
Claire Boeck joined the Warner School’s higher education program as a faculty member in Fall 2025. Her research interests are broadly about teaching and learning in higher education, with a focus on broad access institutions. Specifically, her primary area of research investigates the discourse of being a “good student” across disciplinary areas, and how that discourse has implications for students’ experiences and equitable outcomes. She is also interested in how internal institutional research influences decision-making at different institutional types.
Her work has been published in multiple journals, including the Journal of College Student Development, Research in Higher Education, Journal of the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, and Community College Journal of Research and Practice. She has also co-authored two book chapters about belonging for transfer students and a chapter supporting adult students in community colleges in the Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Papers based on her dissertation work were selected for Presidential Sessions at the 2022 ASHE.
Boeck has over a decade of experience in a variety of roles in higher education. She was an institutional researcher at the University of Michigan for two years. Prior to completing her PhD, she taught humanities courses and worked as a writing tutor, academic advisor, and program director at Wilbur Wright College. In 2017, she was awarded the Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award from Wilbur Wright College in recognition of her teaching and commitment to serving students.