AFFILIATED FACULTY

The affiliated faculty includes Fellows as well as adjunct and emeritus faculty. Fellowship appointments allow IHE to invite senior leaders in higher education—from around the world, as well as closer to home at the University of Georgia—to enrich the community of scholars and policymakers at IHE. Adjunct faculty include leading practitioners of higher education administration who have maintained a research agenda and are actively involved in teaching and advising graduate students. And emeritus faculty remain involved in IHE, teaching and advising from time to time while continuing to contribute to the intellectual landscape of the Institute.

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Senior Fellows hold renewable, three-year appointments to the Institute of Higher Education and contribute to the Institute's programs and intellectual community. IHE Senior Fellows hold the rank of professor and associate professor or equivalent, and come from within the UGA faculty as well as other universities and agencies worldwide.

Christopher Cornwell (2004), Professor of Economics, University of Georgia. Cornwell specializes in the areas of applied econometrics, labor economics, and economics of education. His NSF funded research (with David Mustard) on merit aid programs generally and Georgia's Hope Scholarship in particular provide the Institute with unparalleled expertise in this area.

Jerry S. Davis (2004), Education Research and Policy Analysis Consultant. Davis recently retired from a five-year position as vice president for research at the Lumina Foundation for Education. Before coming to Lumina Foundation, Dr. Davis was president of the Sallie Mae Education Institute and director of education and student loan research at Sallie Mae, Inc. between 1994 and 1999. Before joining Sallie Mae he was vice president for research and policy analysis at the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency for 13 years. He has also served as director of admissions and financial aid at Webster College, and as a staff researcher/manager with such organizations as the National Task Force on Student Aid Problems (the Keppel Task Force), the College Board, and the Southern Regional Education Board. Davis is an IHE alumnus.

Delmer Dunn (2003), Vice President for Instruction Emeritus and Regents Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Georgia (Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Among his many roles at the University of Georgia, Dunn was the Director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government; he has also served as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, and as Director of the Institute of Higher Education. A former Research Associate at The Brookings Institution, Dunn's research has focused on democratic governance. His books include Public Officials and the Press; Financing Presidential Campaigns; and Politics and Administration at the Top: Lessons from Down Under, which won the Charles H. Levine Book Prize in public policy.

Anne Proffitt Dupre (2006) is J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. She joined the faculty in 1994 and teaches education law, children and the law and contracts. In 2004, she became the fourth woman in Georgia Law history to be appointed to an endowed position when she accepted the J. Alton Hosch professorship. As part of her involvement at the Institute, Dupre is the co-director of the Education Law Consortium, which she founded with Dr. John Dayton of the UGA College of Education. Based in the Institute, the consortium sponsors the National Student Education Law Conference. Students from across the country compete to present papers at the conference, which are then published in the Education Law Forum, a web-based journal of law and education policy (the first of its kind). Dupre served as judicial law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun following her clerkship with Judge J.L. Edmondson of the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She practiced law with the Washington, D.C., firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge before joining the law faculty. Click here to read an article from the Advocate, the University of Georgia Law School magazine, about Dupre's selection as a Senior Fellow.

Catherine Finnegan (2006), Director of Assessment and Public Information, Advanced Learning Technologies, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Susan Frost (2003), Consultant and Adjunct Professor, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University.

Karen E. Holt (2007) became the first director of the realigned Fanning Institute on July 1, 2006. Holt came to Fanning after serving as Executive Director of Project Pericles, a not-for-profit organization located in New York City. Founded by the philanthropist Eugene M. Lang, who also established the "I Have a Dream" Foundation, Project Pericles works with colleges and universities to promote education for responsible citizenship.

Prior to joining Project Pericles, Holt led the University of Virginia's Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, served in the General Counsel's office for the University of Tennessee System in Knoxville, and worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Holt earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a juris doctor (J.D.) degree from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. She also graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a bachelor's degree in zoology.

Larry L. Leslie (2005), Distinguished Visiting Professor of Higher Education, Senior Fellow-in-Residence, Institute of Higher Education. Leslie is professor emeritus and was director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona for over 13 years. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in higher education finance and policy. Much of his work addresses the social investment and economic value of higher education and the economic benefits of applied market models.

Edward J. Larson (2008) specializes in law, science and technology, and health care law. The author of five books and over forty published articles, Larson writes mostly about issues of science, medicine, and law from an historical perspective. He won a Pulitzer prize for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997). Larson received the George Sarton Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000, honoring an historian of science for a body of work. He also received one of University of Georgia's highest honors for scholarship when he was presented with the Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award in spring 2001. He has taught in Austria, China, France and New Zealand.

David Morgan (2002), Former Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs/Deputy, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Kenneth E. Redd (2008), Director of Research and Policy Analysis at the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). Mr. Redd is an expert on student financial aid and enrollment trends in higher education who has focused his intellectual efforts toward understanding factors that lead to student success. He came to CGS in 2006 from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, where he directed the organization's research and policy analysis for five years. Prior to that, he served as director of research at the USA Group Foundation (now the Lumina Foundation for Education) and as a senior research associate at Sallie Mae. He has also worked as a researcher and analyst at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Congressional Research Service. The Chronicle of Higher Education named Mr. Redd as one of ten up-and-coming "New Thinkers in Higher Education" in 2005. He is the author of several recent publications focused on graduate and professional student aid policies. His recent publications include Financing Graduate and Professional Education: 2003-2004, Financial Aid Awards and Services to Graduate/Professional Students in 2002-2003, and the widely cited Discounting Toward Disaster: Tuition Discounting, College Finances, and Enrollments of Low-Income Undergraduates.

Joseph Stevenson (2007) is the founding executive director and distinguished professor at the Jake Ayers Institute for Urban Higher Education at Jackson State University and is the former provost there, having served between 2001-04. At JSU he was acting dean of engineering, education and libraries before establishing the Executive Ph.D. Program in Urban Higher Education. Stevenson has been campus provost and CEO at Golden Gate University, Sacramento and Central Valley; special assistant to the president of LaGuardia Community College in New York City; provost and vice president for academic affairs of York College of the City University of New York; assistant superintendent of schools in Pleasantville, New Jersey; associate vice president for academic affairs at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey; and held several positions in the Tennessee higher education systems. He has been an eminent scholar at Florida International University. Stevenson is the first African-American male to earn his Ph.D. in educational policy and management from the University of Oregon. He has earned three master degrees in related fields and completed his undergraduate work in government and psychology from California State University, Sacramento. His post-doctoral study includes work at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, The New School of Social Research, Carnegie Mellon, George Washington University and Hampton. In 2004, he was selected by NAFEO to be a Kellogg Leadership Fellow.

Edwin G. Speir (2002), Professor and President Emeritus, Georgia College and State University.

Geoffrey P. Thomas (2003), President of Kellogg College, Oxford University.

Fellows hold renewable, three-year appointments to the Institute of Higher Education and contribute to the Institute's programs and intellectual community. IHE Fellows are assistant professors or equivalent, and come from within the UGA faculty as well as other universities and agencies worldwide.

Elizabeth DeBray (2005), Assistant Professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, College of Education, University of Georgia. Her research interests include educational policy analysis, politics of education, and current educational policies in the United States. DeBray earned her Ed.D in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University.

Denise Gardner (2005), Associate Director, Office of Institutional Research, University of Georgia. Gardner earned her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in Educational Research and Policy Analysis and has a wealth of experience in academic assessment, survey research, and the use of technology for data management.

Joseph Hermanowicz (2002), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia.

Pamela Kleiber (2002), Associate Director, Honors Program, University of Georgia.

David Mustard (2004), Associate Professor of Economics, University of Georgia. Mustard's research focuses on microeconomic policy-related questions, especially law and economics, crime, casino gambling, lotteries, gun control, sentencing, labor economics, education and merit-based aid. The National Science Foundation has funded his research examining the impacts of merit-based aid. Mustard's (and colleague Christopher Cornwell's) work in this area represents one of the country's most sustained and rigorous empirical examinations of these types of programs.

Adjunct Professors hold renewable, three-year appointments to the Institute, contributing to teaching, research, or public service and outreach activities; they may be appointed to the graduate faculty.

Patricia Kalivoda (1999), Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ed.D. and M.B.A., University of Georgia. Kalivoda, an Institute alumna, is Associate Vice President for Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia. Her research in faculty culture and instructional development has been widely published, and she teaches courses on the professoriate at IHE.

Marguerite Koepke (2003), Adjunct Associate Professor. Koepke directs the Institute's Governor's Teaching Fellows program.

Emeritus Faculty members remain an important part of IHE's intellectual community.

Thomas G. Dyer is University Professor Emeritus and Vice President for Instruction Emeritus. Over his 31 years at the University of Georgia, Professor Dyer has distinguished himself as a consummate and nationally recognized scholar of both history and higher education. His primary interests are in the history of American higher education and southern history. In addition to courses in those areas, he also teaches comparative higher education. Dyer has extensive administrative experience at the University of Georgia, having served as vice president for instruction, interim provost, senior associate vice president for academic affairs, and associate vice president for services.

Dyer's most recent book is Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), which won four awards including the Richard Harwell Prize and the Malcolm and Muriel Bell Award. It was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by Choice magazine. His other books include: Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race (Louisiana State University Press, 1980); The University of Georgia: a Bicentennial History, 1785-1985 (University of Georgia Press, 1985); and To Raise Myself a Little: the Diaries and Letters of Jennie, a Georgia Teacher, 1851-1886 (University of Georgia Press, 1982). Dyer is presently working on a book of essays dealing with the university in American life.

A former editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly (1982-89), Dyer also served as chairman of the editorial board of The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press, 1996), was a senior consultant for the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and served three terms as chairman of the editorial board of the University of Georgia Press. He has also been a member of the editorial board of the Review of Higher Education. Dyer was on the board of the U.S. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and was a member of the University Council of Jamaica. In 1996, he was an exchange professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Cameron Fincher is Regents Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Director Emeritus. Cameron Fincher completed 54 years of service as a faculty member within the University System of Georgia on August 1, 2005. He has received numerous awards and citations for his outstanding contributions to higher education and public service in the state of Georgia. Among his many distinctions, he is a charter member of the Association for Institutional Research and was the first member to be awarded both an outstanding service award and distinguished membership in that organization. In 1986 the Georgia General Assembly passed a resolution recognizing his "many valuable and important contributions to Higher Education and to the State of Georgia." In 1995 he received the Sidney Suslow Award for "significant, scholarly, and original contributions" to higher education from the Association for Institutional Research, and in 1991 the first Howard R. Bowen distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

In his thirty years as director of the Institute, Fincher worked with more than 200 different institutions of higher education at all levels; he developed, organized, and conducted numerous workshops and training seminars related to planning, administrative leadership, teaching and learning, assessment and evaluation. Organizations with which he has worked closely include the Southern Education Foundation, Southern Regional Education Board, the College Board, Educational Testing Service, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the University System of Georgia.

Fincher's most recent book is a second edition of The Historical Development of the University System of Georgia: 1932-1990 (Athens: Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia, 2003). He also co-edited, with George Keller, E. Grady Bogue, and John R. Thelin, 100 Classic Books About Higher Education: A Compendium and Essays (Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 2001). His numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews have been published in a wide spectrum of leading journals in higher education, psychology, and research and assessment. Fincher was also a contributing columnist to the Athens Banner Herald, publishing more than 200 articles on higher education and related topics from 1970 to 1990.

His teaching and research interests include differential, developmental, and organizational psychology; academic leadership, administration, and governance; policy planning and development; measurement, assessment, and evaluation; instructional psychology, learning, program planning, and administrative development.

Sylvia Hutchinson, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Reading Education. Hutchinson formerly directed the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows program at the Institute of Higher Education and College of Arts and Sciences; her distinguished faculty career at the University of Georgia includes service as Associate Dean of the College of Education, where she directed international education programs while continuing to teach and advise graduate students. Hutchinson's research and writing focuses on basal reading texts and international award-winning books for children; she has worked with teachers and presented her research worldwide.

Larry G. Jones, Senior Public Service Associate Emeritus. Larry G. Jones is a senior public service associate in the Institute of Higher Education. His special areas of interest include institutional research, institutional planning and institutional effectiveness and efficiency. A recipient of the Distinguished Membership Award of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), he has served on the AIR Board of Directors and chaired numerous AIR committees. A past president of the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR), he was awarded Distinguished Membership and is the recipient of the James R. Montgomery Outstanding Service Award. He serves as the IHE liaison for the SAIR/IHE Institutional Research Alliance and is the editor of SAIRendipity, an electronic and print op-ed column and the editor/manager of SAIRMAIL, an electronic message service of SAIR.

His recent publications include the edited volume, Preventing Lawsuits: The Role of Institutional Research (New Directions for Institutional Research, No. 96. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1997), as well as several articles and monographs on preventive law and institutional research. He teaches institutional research at IHE.

Jones came to IHE in 1991 from the University of Georgia Office of Institutional Research, where he edited the UGA Fact Book (1975-1990) and conducted admissions, student, and academic program research. Previously, he was the dean of Midland Lutheran College and served as assistant provost and director of Institutional Research at Wittenberg University.

Edward G. Simpson, Jr., Distinguished Public Service Fellow Emeritus. Edward Simpson is the University of Georgia's first Distinguished Public Service Fellow. He came to the Institute of Higher Education in July 1998, with primary responsibilities in the area of public service and outreach, including comparative and developmental work with international higher education institutions and systems.

Prior to service in the Institute of Higher Education, Simpson headed for fifteen years the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education as director and associate vice-president for public service and outreach. Before coming to Georgia he was director of off-campus credit programs, assistant dean of the extension division, and administrator of the Western Region Consortium for Continuing Higher Education at Virginia Tech. Simpson's professional activities have included active work in regional accreditation for more than twenty years, service as national president of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), and a variety of speaking and consulting assignments for national and international audiences dealing with such topics as strategic planning, accreditation, transnational certification, and the operation of residential adult conference centers.

In the last several years, Simpson has made presentations to audiences in Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Norway and Venezuela, frequently in conjunction with colleagues from the International Council on Distance Education (ICDE), the University Continuing Education Association, or various national professional associations of other countries. He is currently developing collaborative relationships with developing state university systems in Tunisia and Croatia, among other international commitments.

In 1991, Simpson was selected as a Kellogg Visiting Fellow to the Department for Continuing Education, the University of Oxford. He returned to Oxford as a Mawby Visiting Fellow in Kellogg College during the autumn of 1998.

Ronald D. Simpson, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Science Education and Director Emeritus of Office of Instructional Development. Ed.D., Science Education, University of Georgia. After a distinguished faculty career at North Carolina State University, Simpson returned to the University of Georgia as the first director of the Office of Instructional Support and Development before joining the IHE faculty. At the Institute, Simpson served as Graduate Coordinator and then as Director, helping to establish the Governor's Teaching Fellows program. Simpson is co-author of a leading textbook titled Science, Students, and Schools (John Wiley & Sons) and Inside College: Undergraduate Education for the Future (Plenum Press). He also served for 13 years as editor of Innovative Higher Education. In 200l he received the Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award; he continues to teach and work with IHE graduate students.

Daniel Sorrells, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education. Ph.D., Michigan State University. Sorrells assisted in the development of a doctoral program in higher education (first graduate in 1971) and took the lead in organizing most of the courses taught during the first several years of the program. He took an active interest in the organization and supervision of administrative internships within the southern region for EDHI students, and was particularly successful in involving other colleges in the use of administrative interns.

D. Parker Young, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education. Ed.D., University of Georgia. Young's expertise is in the area of legal issues in higher education. Among his many awards are the Outstanding Contribution to Literature or Research Award, given by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and the McGhehey Award, given by the Educational Law Association for outstanding service to the organization and outstanding contribution in the field of educational law. Young is past president of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education. His many books include the Yearbook of Higher Education Law, and he is the author of numerous monographs, articles and other publications, including a continuing column for the National Association of Academic Affairs Newsletter. He is a contributing and consulting editor for several publications including College Student and the Courts and College Administrator and the Courts.

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