Amy Li is an associate professor of higher education at Florida International University. Her research focuses on higher education finance and public policy, specifically performance funding, promise programs, student loan debt, state appropriations, and policy adoption. She studies the impact of local and state policies on college access and completion and is particularly interested in outcomes for historically underrepresented populations.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Associate Professor, Florida International University
  • 2020–2023
    Assistant Professor, Florida International University
  • 2016–2020
    Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado

Education

  • 2016 
    University of Washington, PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Publications

  • 2025
    Goodbye performance-based funding: Policy abandonment of performance funding for higher education in the United States, Research in Higher Education
  • 2025
    Promise programs and the allocation of institutional expenditures at community colleges, Community College Review
  • 2025
    Does tuition-setting authority determine whether tuition increases at community colleges with new promise programs?, The Journal of Higher Education

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  • Research supervision