top of page
Education 

Rutgers Law School                                                                                       (exp.)    2028

J.D. (accepted the offer to attend in Fall 2025)

Honors: Rutgers Law Scholarship

 

Northeastern University School of Law                                                                    2024 

MLS, Public Law and Policy 

Honors: MLS Scholarship Award

 

The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education                            2020 

M.S.Ed., Higher Education 

Master’s Paper: Social Cognitive Theory: Determinants on College Persistence among Chinese-American and Chinese International Students 

 

Teachers College, Columbia University                                                                    2019 

M.A., Sociology and Education (policy concentration) 

Master’s Thesis: Pathways to College: A Study on Suburban Tracking

Honors: Recipient, Teachers College Scholarship

 

Drew University                                                                                                           2017

B.A., Sociology (Elected to the Nu Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honors Society), 2016; Civic Honors, 2017), Minor: Anthropology 

Honors: Dean’s List; Recipient, Elbridge and Edna Smith Prize (outstanding achievement in sociology)

Academic Employment

Adjunct Faculty, Instructor (Sociology) - Rowan University                                 2020 - 

  • Designed and implemented curriculum                                                          

  • Published peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed articles on K-12 public/private/religious school curriculum policies & college affordability (see section on publications)

  • Faculty Mentor for Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honor Society)

  • Peer-reviewer/ad-hoc referee for Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (academic book publisher) and Educational Policy & International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (scholarly journals)

 

Lecturer (Criminal Justice) - California State University, Stanislaus                     2020 -

  • Designed and implemented curriculum                                                             

  • Peer reviewer/ad-hoc referee for Sociological Perspectives (scholarly journal) 

 

Graduate Assistantship - Weingarten Tutoring Center                                   2019 - 2020 

  • Conducted mixed methods research to determine demographical analysis      

  • Reviewed policies to meet accreditation/compliance from the College Learning and Reading Association 

  • Conducted research for benchmarking​

​

​

Copyright © 2021-2025 by Tom Chiang Jr.

bottom of page