Stacey Brockman

Stacey L. Brockman, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Wayne State University. Dr. Brockman spent a significant portion of her career as a high school teacher, teacher educator, and intervention specialist. Through that work, she developed an understanding of how educational policies and environments shape students' college and career readiness and pathways.

Dr. Brockman's research focuses on understanding and addressing the policies, institutional practices, and structural barriers that shape students' postsecondary pathways and success. She conducts partner-engaged research with school systems, colleges, community organizations, and state agencies to generate evidence that informs policy and practice. Her recent work examines community college student persistence and completion, transfer and developmental education reforms, college affordability and basic needs supports, and the role of mentoring and coaching in promoting educational success. Much of her research is conducted in partnership with organizations in Detroit and across Michigan and seeks to advance more equitable pathways to college completion and economic opportunity.

Dr. Brockman earned a Ph.D. in educational studies from the University of Michigan in 2021 where she was a fellow in the causal inference in education policy research IES predoctoral training program. She earned both a bachelor of science and master of science in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, and a master of arts in education from Stanford University. For seven years prior to graduate school Dr. Brockman taught social studies and mentored student teachers as a history teacher, and led academic interventions as an Intervention Specialist at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.