Jasmine B. Ulmer (Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, University of Florida) is an associate professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. She coordinates the Educational Evaluation and Research program, which recently co-designed and launched a new online master's degree in program evaluation. This interdisciplinary degree emphasizes community development; organizational communications; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Prior to entering postsecondary education, Ulmer taught 6 subjects across 9 grade levels in 6 years while leading faculty professional development and curriculum design. During this time, she earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a Middle Childhood Generalist; worked for the U.S. Department of Education as a Teaching Ambassador Fellow; and served on multiple committees for the Florida Department of Education, including as a member of the State Education Commissioner’s Teacher Advisory Task Force and as co-chair of the Teacher and Leader Preparation and Implementation Committee. Across these endeavors, she focused on how educators could exercise leadership beyond the traditional four walls of the classroom in policy and shared media, contributing to many communities along the way.
Her roles with the Florida Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education — in tandem with her experiences as an instructional leader at the school and district levels — led her back to the University of Florida for a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership (with a 32-hour concentration in research and evaluation methodologies). Much of her focus over the next four years was on supporting and preparing future educational leaders, central administrators, and leadership scholars. In face-to-face and online settings, she taught and co-taught graduate courses in data-driven decision-making, social justice leadership, and organizational theory. This work was recognized with an award from the Educational Change special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for the ways she brought classroom teaching together with educational leadership, policy, practice, and research. Throughout, this work gravitated toward the question: How are educators leading beyond the classroom in P-12 education?
Since coming to Wayne State University as a research methodologist, this question has shifted. Now, she asks: How can educators reimagine teaching beyond the classroom in higher education? And how can community-based approaches to education, research, and methodology be inclusive and engaged in this work? For her, teaching beyond the classroom begins with three initial dimensions: curriculum, collaboration, and community. The curriculum provides foundations for what we co-create and why; collaboration offers generative, relational paths for getting there; and community is what, in the process, we can shape and support together.
In her time as a research methodologist, Ulmer's efforts have included building, developing, and sustaining local and international methodological communities. Large-scale editorial collaborations, for example, have involved edited collections, special issues, book series, handbooks, handbook series, encyclopedia projects, and more. Her own single-authored work, moreover, consistently offers ways in which we might approach methodology as a shared and collaborative practice that can contribute to the many communities in which we live. This work has, and continues to be, transdisciplinary in scope. Ulmer's methodological contributions have been recognized by the Measurement & Research Methodologies division of AERA with an early career award that rotates to the field of qualitative research once every four years. In addition, Ulmer has been honored to serve as a WSU Humanities Center Faculty Fellow and a visiting scholar at Appalachian State University and Ghent University in Belgium.
Ulmer locates her most recent writings at the intersection of research methodology, ethics, and community. Through this work — and through multiple publishing, communications, and technology-based initiatives — she hopes to contribute to a more equitable, inclusive, and peaceful world.
Prior to entering postsecondary education, Ulmer taught 6 subjects across 9 grade levels in 6 years while leading faculty professional development and curriculum design. During this time, she earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a Middle Childhood Generalist; worked for the U.S. Department of Education as a Teaching Ambassador Fellow; and served on multiple committees for the Florida Department of Education, including as a member of the State Education Commissioner’s Teacher Advisory Task Force and as co-chair of the Teacher and Leader Preparation and Implementation Committee. Across these endeavors, she focused on how educators could exercise leadership beyond the traditional four walls of the classroom in policy and shared media, contributing to many communities along the way.
Her roles with the Florida Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education — in tandem with her experiences as an instructional leader at the school and district levels — led her back to the University of Florida for a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership (with a 32-hour concentration in research and evaluation methodologies). Much of her focus over the next four years was on supporting and preparing future educational leaders, central administrators, and leadership scholars. In face-to-face and online settings, she taught and co-taught graduate courses in data-driven decision-making, social justice leadership, and organizational theory. This work was recognized with an award from the Educational Change special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for the ways she brought classroom teaching together with educational leadership, policy, practice, and research. Throughout, this work gravitated toward the question: How are educators leading beyond the classroom in P-12 education?
Since coming to Wayne State University as a research methodologist, this question has shifted. Now, she asks: How can educators reimagine teaching beyond the classroom in higher education? And how can community-based approaches to education, research, and methodology be inclusive and engaged in this work? For her, teaching beyond the classroom begins with three initial dimensions: curriculum, collaboration, and community. The curriculum provides foundations for what we co-create and why; collaboration offers generative, relational paths for getting there; and community is what, in the process, we can shape and support together.
In her time as a research methodologist, Ulmer's efforts have included building, developing, and sustaining local and international methodological communities. Large-scale editorial collaborations, for example, have involved edited collections, special issues, book series, handbooks, handbook series, encyclopedia projects, and more. Her own single-authored work, moreover, consistently offers ways in which we might approach methodology as a shared and collaborative practice that can contribute to the many communities in which we live. This work has, and continues to be, transdisciplinary in scope. Ulmer's methodological contributions have been recognized by the Measurement & Research Methodologies division of AERA with an early career award that rotates to the field of qualitative research once every four years. In addition, Ulmer has been honored to serve as a WSU Humanities Center Faculty Fellow and a visiting scholar at Appalachian State University and Ghent University in Belgium.
Ulmer locates her most recent writings at the intersection of research methodology, ethics, and community. Through this work — and through multiple publishing, communications, and technology-based initiatives — she hopes to contribute to a more equitable, inclusive, and peaceful world.
Jasmine B. Ulmer
Associate Professor, Educational Evaluation and Research
Division of Administrative and Organizational Studies
College of Education Building #321, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
jasmine.ulmer@wayne.edu
Associate Professor, Educational Evaluation and Research
Division of Administrative and Organizational Studies
College of Education Building #321, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
jasmine.ulmer@wayne.edu