Joel Malin, Ph.D. ’15 EPOL, was honored with the 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award by the National Education Finance Conference for his dissertation, “Social Makeup and Public School Funding Effort and Distribution.” Excellence Professor Kern Alexander served as Malin’s director and advisor for the piece. Malin, whose concentration is in Educational and Administrative Leadership, will receive the award in February at the 2016 National Education Finance Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.