Rate My Professor Cameron Sublett

Cameron Sublett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he serves as Director of the Education Research and Opportunity Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Education Policy, Leadership, and Research Methods from the University of California, Santa Barbara, along with an M.A. in Quantitative Research Methods and Statistics from the same university. Sublett also holds an M.A. in Political Communication from San Diego State University and a B.A. in Human Communication Studies from Westmont College. Before joining the University of Tennessee, he was a faculty member at Santa Barbara City College from 2008 to 2017, an institution recognized as a co-winner of the 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. His earlier career included a post-doctoral position at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School of Education and roles at Pepperdine University and WestEd.

Sublett is recognized nationally as an expert in education policy, specializing in career and technical education (CTE), community college transitions, postsecondary credentials, and labor market alignment. His research, supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences, has been published in prominent journals including Review of Higher Education and Research in Higher Education. Notable publications include 'Are there academic CTE cluster pipelines? Linking high school CTE coursetaking and postsecondary credentials' (2017, 73 citations), 'Does increasing career and technical education coursework in high school boost educational attainment and labor market outcomes?' (2019, 70 citations), 'Community college career and technical education and labor market projections: A national study of alignment' (2021, 68 citations), 'How Does Applied STEM Coursework Relate to Mathematics and Science Self-Efficacy Among High School Students? Evidence from a National Sample' (2018, 60 citations), and 'Community college responses to align career and technical education programs with changing labor markets' (2022, 58 citations). In addition to scholarly work, Sublett has authored opinion pieces for Education Week on AI's effects on CTE and for Inside Higher Ed on AI and the future of work. He was selected as an Emerging Education Policy Scholar in 2016 and leads projects such as those funded by the ECMC Foundation examining CTE pipelines and green sector occupations.