05/10/18
HAYS, Kan. – Dr. Brett Bruner, director of transition and student conduct at Fort Hays State University, was recently awarded the 2018 Bill Neuenswander Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from Baker University.

The award recognizes an outstanding doctoral graduate who has defended his or her dissertation in the previous calendar year and whose work is deemed by a faculty committee to be of exceptional merit.

Bruner’s dissertation, “The Impact of a First Year Living-Learning Community on First-Generation College Student Academic Success and Persistence,” was nominated by Dr.  Tes Mehring, interim provost at Baker University. Mehring served as Bruner’s advisor and the chair of the dissertation committee.