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Columns::September 8, 2003
Smell of success: Chemists receive $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to study aromatic compounds
Karen Holbrook, former UGA provost, will deliver McBee Lecture
CURO apprentices participate in national issues forum on terrorism
Scientists discover gene that maintains genome stability
Researchers test less lethal means to find contamination levels
Economics professor lucks out with state lottery research project
Update: Private Giving
Kudos
Faculty of Engineering member discusses role of ethics in research projects
Food for thought
Campus News
Delaware expert on academic effectiveness named director of UGA institutional research
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
Karen Webber Bauer, who has been in the University of Delaware’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning for 15 years, is the new director of the University of Georgia’s Office of Institutional Research.
Bauer, an authority on designing studies to assess the effectiveness of academic programs, was selected from among six finalists in a national search conducted earlier this year. She fills the position left vacant this past fall by the retirement of long-time institutional research director David Clements. She also will be an adjunct associate professor in UGA’s Institute of Higher Education.
Bauer joined Delaware’s IRP office in 1988 as a research analyst and has been assistant director since 1994. Her duties included coordinating assessments of student academic work; analyzing and writing reports on academic program evaluations, enrollment management and student satisfaction; and helping faculty with survey research.
She has participated with colleagues in research projects that have received more than $1.6 million in funding from such sources as the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Among studies she conducted was a long-range assessment of the value of undergraduate research to students. That project led to a study of the effectiveness of an instructional technique known as problem-based learning. She has reported on results of both studies at conferences and in professional publications, and her work has been used as a model for similar assessments at research universities.
Bauer has a doctorate in counseling and personnel services from the University of Maryland and held a faculty appointment in the University of Delaware psychology department, where she taught classes in child psychology and psychology of women.
She is chair of the Professional Development Committee for the Society for College and University Planning. She is a faculty member for the Association of Institutional Research summer institutes and is on the editorial board of the Journal of College Student Development.
Bauer’s appointment is the latest in a series of changes in UGA’s institutional research office. The name has been changed from Office of Institutional Research and Planning, and the office is under the administrative direction of Robert Boehmer, associate provost for institutional effectiveness.
The office moved last year to new quarters in the Bank of America building in downtown Athens.
A team of outside experts reviewed the office’s operating policies and procedures early this year and made several recommendations for improvements in management, staff development, operational priorities and the office’s relationship with other campus units.
Boehmer formed an advisory board composed of faculty and staff members whose offices use institutional research services.
The board participated in selecting Bauer and will provide guidance as she becomes acquainted with UGA’s data reporting and management needs. |
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