Betz Kerley Research is at the center of Institute life. Instruction, graduate assistantships, professional development programs, and publications are all affected by the in depth research conducted by IHE faculty. Their research interests cover a wide range of areas including, but not limited to, state and federal public policy, international trends, finance and economic issues, organizational analysis and strategic management in higher education. Sheila Slaughter continues research into issues of intellectual property, commercialization of academic science and technology, research ethics and academic capitalism. She recently published “The Social Construction of Copyright Ethics and Value” in Science and Engineering Ethics, with G. Rhoades; “Policies on Institutional Conflict of Interest at U.S. Research Universities” in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Ethics Research, with Maryann P. Feldman and Scott L. Thomas; and “Research Commercialization” in the International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd ed.). She has several forthcoming publications: a book chapter with Gary Rhoades, “Markets in Higher Education: Students in the Seventies, Patents in the Eighties, Copyrights in the Nineties, More Academic Capitalism in the 2000's,” which will appear in P. Altbach, R. Berdahl and P. Gumport (eds), American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political and Economic Challenges (3rd ed.); and “Academic Freedom, Professional Autonomy, and the State,” in J. Hermanowicz (ed.), The American Academic Profession: Changing Forms and Functions. In addition, she and Brendan Cantwell submitted an article to Higher Education, “Transatlantic Moves to the Market: United States and the European Union.” Slaughter continues her research on an NSF grant that examines the way universities contribute to national income growth. Her research group (Larry L. Leslie, Sheila Slaughter, Barrett Taylor and Liang Zhang), has submitted an article based on the grant to the Journal of Higher Education. She also submitted an invited paper, “Institutional Conflict of Interest: Issues Raised When Administrators Run the Universities as Firms,” slated for the November/Dec 2010 Academe special issue. Slaughter is co-PI with Amy Metcalfe on a Canadian Social Science Research Council grant to study gender and academic capitalism. Metcalfe and Slaughter have submitted an article, “Women in Postsecondary Education: Status Hierarchy and Pay,” based on their grant to Gender and Society. In all, she has acquired grants and contracts totaling more than $0.5 million for 2009-10. Slaughter has made several invited presentations in Norway and Ireland and the U.S. An Erasmus Mundus Fellow (funded by the European Union), she spent several weeks at the University of Oslo, where she taught a summer school course to EU students, entitled “Critique of the Neoliberal University.” She is a member of the editorial advisory board for Higher Education Management, and two of her books have been translated into other languages: Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University (with L. Leslie) was translated into Chinese, and Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education (with G. Rhoades) was translated into Japanese. In August, Slaughter spoke at the opening plenary session of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta. Her talk was entitled “Collapsing Liberal Studies: The Demise of the Humanities, (some) Social Science and the Fine Arts.” Jim Hearn’s publications in 2009-10 included two book chapters: “Governmental Policy and the Organization of Postsecondary Education,” co-authored with IHE student Austin Lacy and appearing in the Handbook on Educational Policy Research, and “Viewing Recent U.S. Governance Reform Whole: ‘Decentralization’ in a Distinctive Context,” co-authored with Vanderbilt Professor Michael McLendon and appearing in International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education. Hearn also continued his collaborative work with McLendon on state policy issues in higher education. This past year, Hearn was co-author for an article with McLendon and Christine Mokher appearing in the Journal of Higher Education titled “Partisans, Professionals, and Power: The Role of Political Factors in State Higher Education Funding.” Currently, Hearn and McLendon are working on a book on state policy issues for the Johns Hopkins University Press. Hearn also co-authored two research papers presented at major conferences. With Austin Lacy and Georgia Tech researcher Aaron Levine, he presented a paper titled “The Origins of State Embryonic Stem Cell Research Policies: An Event History Analysis” at the Atlanta Conference on Science Innovation and Policy in November 2009. With McLendon and Lacy, he presented a paper titled “Gambling on Merit Aid: An Event History Analysis of the Rise and Spread of Merit- Aid Programs” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago in April 2010. Hearn began work on a project titled “Emerging Developments in Faculty Career Contexts,” funded by the TIAA-CREF Institute. The project, for which Hearn is principal investigator, uses existing and new data sources to investigate changes in the contexts of faculty work in U.S. higher education institutions. Also, Hearn continued work on two projects funded by the National Science Foundation: he served as co-principal investigator with Sheila Slaughter for a project titled “Centers, Universities, and the Scientific Innovation Ecology,” and he continued work on a project titled “State Science Policies: Modeling their Origins, Nature, Fit, and Effects on Local Universities.” With Director Libby Morris taking on additional duties as vice provost for UGA, Jim has graciously agreed to serve as associate director of the Institute. He will assist with administrative duties and advise faculty committees. Finally, in January of 2010, Hearn became associate editor for the Educational Researcher, a journal of the American Educational Research Association. In December of 2010, he will complete fifteen years of service as associate editor of Research in Higher Education. Robert Toutkoushian will focus on several projects including an analysis of the impact of Indiana’s Twenty-First Century Scholars program (TFSC) on improving access to higher education for students from low income families. This work involves the analysis of a large cohort of 9th grade students in Indiana, and will examine whether TFSC participants were more likely than other students to initially consider going to college, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and enroll in college. This analysis will complement IHE’s focus on higher education finance and policy. A second major initiative this year will be co-authoring a textbook, with Michael Paulsen at the University of Iowa, on the economics and finance of higher education. He will also be completing studies on the following topics: (a) the tuition differential charged by public institutions to in-state and out-of-state students; (b) the effects of merit- and need-based state financial aid on access to higher education; and (c) the effects of sanctions from the No Child Left Behind Act on student performance in Indiana. Rob is also co-editing a book (with Jung Shin from Seoul National University) to be published by Springer on rankings and prestige in higher education. Other studies that are underway include (1) an analysis of nonresident tuition rates in public colleges and universities, (2) an examination of the impact of state financial aid programs on access to higher education and mobility across states, and (3) an analysis of how to measure economies of scale for institutions of higher education. Rob served as president of AIR for 2009-10. He served as editor of the journal New Directions for Institutional Research from 2005-10, is now the associate editor of the series Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, and will become the new editor of Research in Higher Education beginning in January 2011. Doug Toma culminates his project on the managerial capacity of universities and colleges in a book to be released in September titled Building Organization Capacity: Strategic Management in Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press). He is also completing a book to be published by Routledge titled Managing the Entrepreneurial University: Legal Issues and Commercial Realities in Higher Education. Doug teamed with IHE doctoral student Dennis Kramer this year to edit a New Directions for Higher Education monograph on the uses of intercollegiate athletics. He wrote a chapter for a forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins, edited by Mike Bastedo, on organizing higher education; contributed a chapter on ethics in fund raising and athletics for an upcoming book; and has a chapter on the business of college athletics in the new three-volume book by David Siegel and John Knapp on the business of higher education. Doug presented a paper before a plenary session at the academic symposium at the 2010 NCAA convention in January, which the Journal of Intercollegiate Athletics is publishing this fall. He has enjoyed organizing the Atlanta Ed.D. program for the Institute, which launched in January. Karen Webber continues her assignment as graduate coordinator for the IHE Ph.D. program for FY2010-11. Over the past year, she was the keynote speaker at the inaugural conference for the Middle East and Northern Africa Association for Institutional Research (MENA-AIR), presented a workshop and two scholarly papers at AIR in Chicago, and presented a paper at ASHE in Vancouver. She had a paper published with doctoral student Charles Mathies and two chapters, one co-authored with Rob Toutkoushian, in a book for Springer Press called Ranking, Reputation, and Quality of Higher Education. Webber is among a strong team of IHE faculty and doctoral students who are using the NCES and NSF datasets for research. Webber is examining NSOPF data to further illuminate facets of efficient faculty productivity, including the interaction effect of gender, children, and marital status, as well as immigrant status on overall productivity. Webber also served as a reviewer for the UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunity (CURO) summer scholars apprentice program and has submitted an article for publication on the benefits of undergraduate research with Pam Kleiber (CURO) and Marcus Fechheimer (Cell Biology). Currently, she and colleagues in the departments of Counseling and Human Development and Kinesiology are planning to submit a grant this fall to NIH proposing a multi-year program for at-risk youth. Erik Ness continues research examining the political dynamics of the public policymaking process and the effects of state merit scholarship programs. He co-authored an article with Liang Zhang recently published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis that analyzes the impact of merit aid programs on stemming the brain drain. In two chapters forthcoming in a New Directions in Institutional Research volume, he proposes a typology of state merit aid programs (with Jennifer Delaney) and examines the impact of these programs in Florida and Georgia on institutions’ academic profiles (with Liang Zhang). His article on the political process through which states determine merit aid eligibility criteria was published last winter in the Journal of Higher Education. Ness is currently examining the utilization and dissemination of information as states consider the adoption of new postsecondary education policies. In a chapter in the most recent volume of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Ness synthesizes the relevant literature on the use of information in the public policy process and scrutinizes the extent to which research utilization is incorporated in the conceptual frameworks of the policymaking process. With funding from the Spencer Foundation, he has analyzed research utilization in the adoption of state merit aid programs and presented papers on the topic at the annual conferences of ASHE in Vancouver and CHER in Oslo. Also in 2009-10, Ness was elected as a member-at-large to ASHE’s Council on Public Policy in Higher Education and was selected as a member of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education Associates Program. He continues to serve as a consulting editor for Research in Higher Education. Brendan Cantwell, from the University of Arizona, joined the Institute in August as a postdoctoral research associate. He will be mentored by Sheila Slaughter with whom he has co- authored an article submitted to Higher Education. His research addresses higher education internationalization, professional education access, and student mobility and access. Type of News/Audience: 2010 IHE Report
