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400 Rackley

Campus: University Park

Departments: Education Policy Studies, Center for the Study of Higher Education
Program: Higher Education

Center: Center for the Study of Higher Education

Dr. Volkwein has a forty-year career as a researcher, administrator, and faculty member. Since receiving a bachelor's degree from Pomona College and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, he held a variety of administrative posts, first at SUNY Binghamton and for thirty years at Albany, where he was director of institutional research and a faculty member in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. His teaching and research interests span the areas of academic program evaluation and accreditation, assessment of student learning and growth, state regulation and performance indicators, campus culture and climate, and administrative satisfaction and decision support. All his scholarly work is related, directly or indirectly, to the topic of organizational effectiveness. He has produced more than 100 journal articles, research reports, conference papers, and book chapters. He currently is the principal investigator or CO-principal investigator on projects in the areas of accreditation, engineering education, and training institutional researchers. He also serves as Editor-in-chief for the Jossey Bass series, New Directions for Institutional Research, and is a consulting editor for three other higher education journals. A recent winner of the AIR Suslow Award for Distinguished Scholarship, he served as President of the North East Association for Institutional Research and received its Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Volkwein chaired the Middle States committee that produced the monograph “Framework for Outcomes Assessment.”