University of Michigan

Student transitions from HS to college; student attrition and degree completion; economics of postsecondary education; effects of financial aid on students

University of Georgia

Management and organization of higher ed; public policy; governance of colleges and universities; financing postsecondary education

Michigan State University

College accessa and choice for low-income and minority students; state-level financial aid support for postsecondary education; higher, adult, and lifelong learning; international and comparative education

Indiana University

College choice; student persistence; student financial aid policy; enrollment management

Penn

Access, choice, and equity in higher ed; college finance and affordability; federal and state involvement in pre-college and college education

Uses a multiconceptual model to see how a student's external contexts (i.e. family, community, school, public policy) influence decision-making and outcomes related to higher education; also looks at faculty disparities 

University of Michigan

Education for a just society; impact of public finance on school and college access; educational policy; diversity and equity

UCLA

Director of CHOICES, a longitudinal study of college attendance among African Americans and Latinos in CA

Comparative race and ethnic relations, comparative family studies, higher education, desegregation, and the sociology of health

Reported that black students who attend HBCUs have better academic performance, greater social involvement, and higher occupational aspirations that black students who attend PWIs

University of Southern California

Equity Scorecard!

College Access (Latinos and African Americans), Graduation & Transfer rates, affirmative action and minority students, community colleges, higher education leadership accountability 

Former ASHE President, Formber VP of AREA

University of California Los Angeles

Affirmative Action, Asian American Studies, Achievement, Diversity, International Education, Ethnic Issues, Multicultural Education, Equity, Comparative and International Education 

UCLA

Equity & diversity; student educational outcomes; campus climates; college impact on student development

Former ASHE President

Claremont Graduate University

Diversity in higher eucation, evalution and organization change, college goverance issues, women in academe and women's colleges

Major project for the James Irvine Foundation to evaluate the impact of the Campus Diversity Initiative

University of Minnesota

Feminist education; Race and gender in education; Change agents

Michigan State University

Organizational Change & Transformation in Universities and Colleges; Faculty Careers, Roles, & Professional Development; The Improvement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education; Work and Workplaces in Academe; Reform in Doctoral Education

Former ASHE President

John M. Braxton 

Vanderbilt 

College student experience and success, college student departure process and persistence, and the academic profession/course level process 

Former ASHE President

University of Michigan

Curriculum-planning and Instruction, Student Learning, and Faculty Practices

Columbia University

Cognitive development, higher education curriculum, research design and methodology, students in college and universities, women/feminism, workplace learning

University of Arizona

Academic Labor & Institutional Restructuring; the expansion of due-process for contingent faculty & grad employees; professional development; faculty equity 

Former ASHE President

California State University, Sacramento / Arizona State University 

Access, equity and leadership in higher ed.; Faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity; Organizational change; The use of qualitative methods for policy research

Recently elected as President of ASHE

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Workforce diversity in higher education; workplace discrimination in higher education; executive behavior in education; African American males in higher education

University of Southern California

Higher education; leadership and governance; diversity and equity; non-tenure track faculty

Change 

University of Southern California

Category: Organizations, leadership, and governance; Specific interests in: academic decision making, organizational restructuring, faculty productivity, and issues of equity

Former ASHE President 

Iowa State University

Community college student success, retention, and transfer; especially interested in issues pertaining to underrepresented student groups and equity 

Former ASHE President

Indiana University

Student engagement in higher ed; determinants of student success in college; campus cultures; student outcomes assessment

National Survey of Student Engagement

Former ASHE President

Miami University of Ohio

Student Development Theory

Best known for her work on the evolution of learning and development in college and young adult life and pedagogy to promote self-authorship (longitudinal study of those starting at age 18 who are now 40)

Iowa University

Impacts of college on students, first year students, leadership studies, study abroad programs

Michigan State University

Identity and identity development in higher education; mixed race college students; LGBT issues in higher ed; women in higher ed in the U.S. and global contexts; new professionals in student affairs

Indiana University

Latino college students, Latino ethnic identity, College student development, Student affairs administration