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Faculty Member Karen Webber Is Co-editor of New Book on Institutional Research in Higher Education

Institutional Research and Planning in Higher Education: Global Contexts and Themes Editors: Karen L. Webber, Associate Professor in the Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia, USA; and Angel J. Calderon, Principal Advisor of Planning and Research, RMIT University, Australia. New book explores the impact of globalization, demographic shifts, increases in student enrollments, rapid technological transformation, and market-driven…


Around IHE - Faculty Research 2014

Timothy Cain writes and teaches about the history of higher education, university faculty, campus speech, and learning outcomes assessment. He is currently writing a book on the history of faculty unionization from 1918-1980, arguing that unions were significant even before they could collectively bargain and that studying their contested rise reveals core tensions in American higher education. In January 2015, Jossey-Bass will publish Using…


Reading List: New Books by IHE Faculty

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…


IHE Faculty Receive ASHE Awards

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…


Faculty Member Tim Cain is Co-Author of New Book on Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment

Tim Cain is one of a group of scholars who has written a new book, Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, to inform and shift the functions and forms of assessment away from the conventional view that assessment is primarily an act of compliance with outside forces and toward the view that understanding what matters to student learning and documenting student accomplishment are useful tools and essential to institutional…


Institute of Higher Education Faculty Receive Awards at ASHE Conference

Institute of Higher Education faculty members Sheila Slaughter and James C. Hearn have received prestigious awards from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). The awards were issued at the association’s annual conference on Nov. 19-22 in Washington, D.C.  Sheila Slaughter, the McBee Professor of Higher Education, received the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award, which is the highest honor presented to an individual…


Two Students to Share Miller Graduate Fellowship for 2014-15

The Institute of Higher Education has named two students, Lucia Brajkovic and Kelly Ochs Rosinger, as Zell and Shirley Miller Graduate Fellows for 2014-15. The annual award is given to students with outstanding scholarly potential, academic record and professional achievements. The $1,500 award supports professional development. “The high caliber of our current students made it difficult to select just one recipient this year. Lucia and Kelly…


Manuel González Canché Receives Reviewer Certification for National Studies

Institute of Higher Education faculty receives reviewer certification for national studies Manuel S. González Canché, assistant professor of higher education, has received certification as a reviewer for the What Works Clearinghouse™ in Postsecondary Education. The certification is granted by the Institute of Education Sciences, Mathematica Policy Research, and What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). Certified reviewers demonstrate a comprehensive…


Faculty Research - 2013

Perhaps no educational concern is more important than student access, choice, success, and attainment. Commitment to research is deeply embedded in the DNA of the Institute. Georgia higher education leaders established the Institute in 1964 to “study the rapidly changing environment of higher education and to assist Georgia colleges and universities” in improving their academic quality and operations.1 As the Institute’s first director put it in…


Does It Really Pay to Go to College?

Rob Toutkoushian Introduction Economists often refer to going to college as an investment in a person’s skills, or human capital, which are then rewarded in the labor market. If postsecondary education is indeed an investment, then how large is the return on that investment? And how does the return to postsecondary education compare to other investment options? The answers to these questions are particularly important as policymakers, academics…
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