Teaching Interests:
Dr. Hill currently teaches research methods and design course work and has supervised to completion 43 dissertations, hooding these Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) recipients who completed their Joint UNO/University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Doctor of Education in Educational Administration degree program studies. In 2002 Dr. Hill received the UNO Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award.

Research / Creative Activity Interests:
From 1989 to 1995 I was recipient of the Regents Professorship, an endowed chair awarded for outstanding research and scholarly productivity. Recent research publications include:

Grice, C. L., Hill, J. W., & Hayes, K. L. (2012). Do Declining Neighborhood Economic Conditions Trump Hoped for School Renovation Renewal Benefit? Advances in Applied Sociology, 2(2), 102-110.

Hill, J. W., Epperson, K. J., & Kotulak, G. D. (2012). Have Institutional Review Board regulations affected research approval patterns? Advances in Medical Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnosis, 13, 60-70.

Dunphy, S., & Hill, J. (2010). Explicitly differentiated eighth-grade reading instruction in a rural middle school seeking to reestablish adequate yearly progress benchmarks. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 5(4), 1-14, http://cnx.org/content/m35682/latest/.

Williby, R., & Hill, J. (2010). Must economics always determine academic destiny? Achievement across time in two academically equivalent but socioeconomically diverse same city Catholic schools. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 5(2), 1-13, http://cnx.org/content/m34617/latest/.

Lavender, D., & Hill, J. (2010). Principal led in-class positive behavioral support intervention. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 5(2), 1- 1-13, http://cnx.org/content/m34272/latest/.

Hill, J. W., & Coufal, K. L. (2005). Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A retrospective examination of social skills, linguistics, and student outcomes. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 27(1), 33-46.