Tags: 2015 IHE Report

This past academic year was a particularly busy one, as the Institute of Higher Education marked the 50th anniversary of its founding. Events held throughout the year brought distinguished scholars to campus–including our own alumni–to interact with current IHE faculty, staff and students. Please enjoy the photos on pages 16-17. Over the course of the past 50 years, the Institute has steadfastly supported the land-grant missions of outreach,…

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2015) Tim Cain is one of seven scholars who collaborated on this book to present a reframed conception and approach to student learning outcomes assessment. The authors explain why it is counterproductive to view collecting and using evidence of student accomplishment as primarily a compliance activity, and offer practical advice for making student learning outcomes…

Libby Morris and James Hearn Sheila Slaughter, the inaugural Louise McBee Professor of Higher Education, is retiring this year. Attempting to capture what she has meant to the study of higher education worldwide is an impossible task. Attempting to capture what she has meant to the Institute of Higher Education is similarly challenging. Sheila has been a scholar, mentor, colleague, friend, provocateur, and partner since joining us from the…

Sheila Slaughter and James Hearn were recipients of prestigious awards at the 2014 ASHE conference held in Washington, D.C. last November. Slaughter received the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award, which is the highest honor presented to an individual by ASHE. The award is presented to “an individual whose professional life has been devoted in substantial part to the study of higher education and whose career has significantly advanced…

Thurston Domina, associate professor of education and sociology at the University of California-Irvine, was an IHE visiting scholar for the 2014-2015 academic year. Domina’s research pairs demographic and econometric empirical methods with sociological theory to better understand the relationship between education and social inequality in the contemporary U.S. “I’m committing more time and energy to researching undergraduate education lately as…

Margaret Blanchard It’s been two years since Sondra N. Barringer joined the Institute as a postdoctoral research and teaching associate. With a background in sociology and economics, Barringer has focused her research on the relationships within and between higher education organizations, and their consequences. In August, she embarked on a multi-year research project on interdisciplinary research within large research universities with a…

Faculty in the Institute of Higher Education are examining major issues confronting postsecondary education. And their findings are often surprising. Today, more than three-quarters of college teachers work off the tenure track, often with no job security, low wages and few prospects for advancement. Taking a closer look at the history of higher education, TIM CAIN suggests it was always so.  Roughly three quarters of college teachers work…

The Institute of Higher Education celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding with a series of events throughout the 2014-2015 academic year. Highlights included a roundtable discussion of contemporary higher education research in September that brought noted scholars from across the country to campus, and a three-day closing conference in March. Keynoters at the conference were Houston Davis, executive vice chancellor and chief academic…

Margaret Blanchard Executive Ed.D. program stresses leadership, steps up recruitment The fast-track executive doctoral program in higher education management, launched by the Institute of Higher Education in 2010, is recruiting students for its fourth cohort, which will begin classes in January 2016. The program schedule accommodates busy professionals, with eight meetings yearly in Atlanta (Thursday afternoon through Sunday afternoon) and two…

The McBee Lecture honors Louise McBee, who held leadership positions for more than 25 years at the University of Georgia before serving for more than a decade as a champion for higher education in the Georgia General Assembly. A video archive of past lectures, all focused on key directions and themes in higher education, can be found on the IHE website: www.ihe.uga.edu In almost every state across the U.S., state support has dropped by 50…