Manuel S. González Canché

Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

  • He is the 2016 recipient of the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Promising Scholar/Early Career Award.
  • He has secured funding for research from the Spencer Foundation, the American Education Research Association/National Science Foundation, the Association for Institutional Research, and the Institute of Education Sciences.

Manuel S. González Canché holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education with cognates in Biostatistics and Economics. He joined the Higher EducationOpens in new window division as an associate professor in 2017 and serves as affiliated faculty with the  Human Development and Quantitative MethodsOpens in new window  division and the  International Educational Development ProgramOpens in new window . His research follows two interconnected paths. The first concerns issues of access, persistence, and success, with an emphasis on institution effects--such as 2-year versus 4-year college and distance from home—on students’ outcomes. The second focuses on higher education finance, with emphases on spatial modeling and competition based on spatial proximity and spillover effects. Methodologically, González Canché employs econometric, quasi-experimental, spatial statistics, and visualization methods for big and geocoded data, including geographical information systems and network modeling.