Dr. Carol L. Colbeck, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Research Associate, CSHE
Associate Professor of Higher Education, EPS

Since 1996, Dr. Colbeck has been Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator of seven research projects funded for a total of $3 million by the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Education, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the US Marine Corps. Dr. Colbeck's research investigates how social and organizational contexts shape academic work in four interrelated areas: (1) how faculty integrate teaching, research, and service; (2) how state, institutional, and departmental policies influence the nature and characteristics of faculty work; (3) how faculty teaching and organizational climate affect student learning; and (4) how faculty balance professional and personal responsibilities.

Dr. Colbeck's degrees are all from Stanford University, including a BA in English (with distinction), an MA in Sociology, and a Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis. She teaches Organizational Theory, Curriculum, Qualitative Research Methods, and Academic Work Roles.

Dr. Colbeck received the 2005 Commission for Women's Achieving Woman Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership at Penn State. She has consulted with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute in Budapest, Hungary, Social Policy Research Associates, and several universities in the USA and abroad. She was editor of Evaluating Faculty Performance for the New Directions for Institutional Research series, and she has published in Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and Change.

clc15@psu.edu
Research Brief 2004
Research Brief 2005
Recent and Most Cited Publications and Presentations

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