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Annie Wofford, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Higher Education | Research: equity in #STEM, #mentoring, & #gradschool | Coffee connoisseur | Views my own | She/her | www.anniewofford.com
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The semester started yesterday, and my first day of teaching is today! Here’s to Year 4 on the tenure track at the FSU Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and to creating more joy every day.

#FacultyLife #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky
A white woman with medium length brown hair and brown eyes standing in front of a bookcase and a poster that says, “Joy is a form of resistance.” She has a big smile that emulates this phrase.
August 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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New pub!

"'We Can Change the Culture Through Those Individual Engagements': Social Exchange and Equity-Mindedness in STEMM Doctoral Students' Roles as Mentors," is newly out with Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Find it here (and DM if you don’t have access): doi.org/10.1108/SGPE...
May 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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What an incredible honor to hood Dr. Denise Gonzalez McHale yesterday! Thank you for trusting me from the beginning—a then brand-new faculty member—and allowing me to be part of your journey. You’ll always be part of mine and will forever be the first person I hooded! #graduation #facultylife
May 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In trying times for our educational communities, it’s going to be vital to support the students in our spheres of influence. In this new paper, @jenniferblaney.bsky.social and I focus on supporting transfer Students of Color in computer science. 50 free downloads here: tinyurl.com/WoffordBlane...
Screenshot of the title and abstract from a new article called, “Community College Pathways to Graduate Study: Examining Community Cultural Wealth Among Transfer Students of Color.” This article can be found at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9YCVU5WWJPGVTCE4AQ3F/full?target=10.1080/10668926.2025.2453466
February 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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A snowy/icy morning in Tallahassee, Florida…so, you know, anything can happen, kids.
Picture of a backyard with a light covering of snow on the grass and on the fire pit with Adirondack chairs. There is ice on hanging lights, but the trees are still green because it’s Florida.
January 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Winter in northern Florida truly makes the heat of the summer months worth it. 😍 70° and perfect weather for a walk in our local state park!
Picture of a brick path surrounded by a beautiful canopy of century oak trees and Spanish moss.
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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10/10 recommend working with amazing collaborators who care for you as an academic and as a new mom. Branded onesie and all! Thank you, EGE team & @julieposselt.bsky.social! ❤️
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November 15, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Come work with me! We are hiring a #TenureTrack Assistant/Associate Professor in Higher Education at FSU. Deadline 11/25.

tinyurl.com/ytnyx698

Please join us to continue the important work we are doing in the southeast!

#HigherEd #Faculty #EduSky #AcademicSky
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November 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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So happy to be in community with fantastic education researchers at #AERA24! Already had some delightful food in Philadelphia.
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April 11, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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A true honor to talk about transforming learning environments in graduate education with some of my favorite people, Steve Desir & Aireale Rodgers.

Grateful to be in community for The Gardner Institute’s first convening on The Graduate Student Experience!

#AcademicSky #EduSky #GraduateEducation
March 26, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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💫 New article out today!

In this piece, I work to update a longstanding, widely cited model about the phases of mentoring relationships with equity-minded understandings.

First 50 online copies are free here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PTSKG...
Shortened Abstract: Mentoring relationships are among the most crucial forms of developmental support for students in higher education. While mentorship has been widely studied, researchers’ conceptualizations of mentoring relationships have scarcely been updated with notions of equity-mindedness to meet the needs of today’s increasingly diverse student population. Using qualitative data from 10 doctoral students serving as mentors in STEMM, this study examines the strengths and shortcomings of Kram’s model about the phases of mentoring relationships. By extending four decades of research on these well-established phases of mentoring (i.e., initiation, cultivation, separation, redefinition) with the equity-minded mentoring model, findings illustrate how the phases of graduate-undergraduate mentoring are shaped by mentors’ social identities and larger organizational dynamics.
March 7, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Hello, University of Maryland! Always great to be here, and I’m excited to learn with and from my cohort in the NSF QRM Scholars program!

…just…take it easy on the impending snow, Mother Nature.
A snowy landscape picture of the University of Maryland campus entrance sign, a long brick sign. Annie Wofford is standing in front of the sign, smiling for a selfie even though it’s very cold. She is wearing a cream white knit beanie and a gray winter coat, and her shoulder length brown hair flips out under her hat.
January 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Can’t recommend spending the New Year on a mountain enough.

Time in Argentina & Chile was exactly what I needed to restore my mind, body, and spirit. What a wonderful Patagonian adventure!

1) Torres del Paine, Chile
2) Fitz Roy, Argentina
Annie sitting atop a boulder in front of three mountainous pillars called Torres del Paine. Annie is in a yellow mustard jacket and black pants, thrilled but exhausted at hiking 7 miles one way. The summit of Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina. The mountain skyline is behind two glacial lakes of extreme tranquility.
January 3, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Saturdays in December are for baking experiments. 😋 #Baking
Baking tray with pinwheel sugar cookies, fresh out of the oven. The pinwheels have layers of chocolate and regular sugar cookie flavors, and they have green sprinkles on the edges because…festive season.
December 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM
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Leaving rainy Tally and heading to the Twin Cities! Let’s go, #ASHE2023! Very ready to see old and new friends over the next few days.

#HigherEd #Conferences
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November 15, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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So very excited for ASHE 2023 and all of the excellent higher education scholarship that FSU students and faculty are sharing there! If you’ll be at ASHE next week, check out these sessions.
November 8, 2023 at 6:40 PM
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Thinking about M.S. or Ph.D. programs to apply for this fall? Or, are you applying to Florida State and have questions about what to expect?

Join the FSU Higher Education Program to chat about these topics and more during our final info session for Fall 2024 admission! ⬇️ #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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November 1, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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Yesterday and today, I had the joy of dedicating time to think with stellar interdisciplinary scholars. Thanks to Frank Fernandez & Bonnie Moradi for convening such a thoughtful group to reflect and dream about research. Honored to be here, even if it means being in the rival city! #AcademicSky
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October 20, 2023 at 7:00 PM
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After years of collaboration, I’m honored to share the “Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit.” This toolkit is an invitation to engage in deeper thinking about how #mentoring relationships can embody equity-mindedness. Check it out: equitygraded.org/equityminded...

#AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd #Equity
Cover image, with a navy background and white font, of the “Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit.” The title text is near the top of the page, and there is an image of a professor-led research group below the title. The bottom of the cover page conveys authorship of Annie Wofford, Adrianna Burton, Kimberly Dennin, and Reginald Gardner and displays the logos of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network and USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education.
October 13, 2023 at 6:34 PM
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On this Monday nearly halfway through the semester, I couldn’t help but wonder: Who was the instructor that assigned all these problem sets in our applied quantitative research course, and why was it me?

#AcademicSky #FacultyLife #EduSky #Grading
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October 9, 2023 at 7:02 PM
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Starting the weekend by purchasing a vintage vase and fresh, locally grown flowers. 🧡🌻 You can take me out of Kansas, but…
Orange glass vase with fresh autumn flowers. In the center of the vase, there is a brown sunflower in close view. On the sides, there is a yellow zinnia and some gold and green foliage.
October 7, 2023 at 12:50 AM
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Join Dr. Cameron Beatty (Associate Prof & our amazing program coordinator) for a virtual information session about the Higher Education Program and out graduate degree offerings at Florida State University!

Our first session will be this Thursday, September 28th. ⬇️

#HigherEd #SAchat #SApro
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September 26, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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I think I unlocked a new achievement in being a professor: My first coffee spill on a class textbook. 😅 At least it was only the top of the book?
Picture of an applied statistics book (blue in color) with a brown coffee stain at the top. Oops!
September 25, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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Yesterday and today mark the start of the 2023-2024 NSF Quantitative Research Methods (QRM) Scholars in STEM Education program!

Grateful to be selected for this community. What an awesome chance to learn and test new quant methods for our research on STEM equity. #STEM #EdResearch
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September 23, 2023 at 11:26 AM