Sarayu Sundar, Ph.D.

Dr. Sarayu Sundar serves as a Higher Education Research Associate with NCWIT at the University of Colorado Boulder. In this role, Dr. Sundar focuses on leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to understand trends and patterns in student outcomes. Her charge includes the collection and analysis of quantitative longitudinal enrollment, retention, and degree completion data from Higher Ed Alliance institutions, particularly those involved in NCWIT’s programs. She also supports the higher ed team’s work with Learning Circles, the Meeting of the Minds webinar series, and the Higher Education Alliance Co-Chairs.

Prior to joining NCWIT, Dr. Sundar served as a Research Analyst for five years with UCLA’s Momentum research team. She has also held a variety of student affairs roles at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business and served as the Associate Director of Student Experience at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Sundar has presented her research at national conferences for the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the Association for Institutional Research. She has co-authored peer-reviewed papers that have been published in Research in Higher Education and Computer Science Education.

Education:

BBA: University of Houston, Accounting (2011)
M.Ed.: University of Houston, Higher Education Administration (2014)
M.A.: University of California, Los Angeles, Higher Education and Organizational Change (2018)
Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles, Higher Education and Organizational Change (2022)