Florida
State University
College
of Education
Institutional
Research Symposium
“Emerging
Issues in Higher Education”
Dr.
Carolyn Herrington, Associate Dean for Research and Service, hosted an Institutional
Research Symposium on May 29, 2003.
Three guest speakers, Dr.
Victor Borden (Indiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis), Dr.
Paul Umbach (The National Survey of Student Engagement at Indiana
University), and Dr. Sarah Parrott (Brandeis University), addressed an audience
of Florida State University faculty, chairs, deans, and Vice Presidents.
The presenters discussed the effectiveness of institutional research for
improving the quality of instructional programs at the departmental, college and
university levels. Leaders were
presented with several quality-measuring activities designed to enhance current
efforts to provide the highest quality educational experiences to FSU students.
(From
left to right: Dr. Paul Umbach, Dr. Terrence Russel, Dr. Carolyn
Herrington, Dr. Victor Borden, Dr. Sarah Parrott)
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Victor
Borden, Ph.D.
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Victor
(Vic) Mark Haifleigh Borden is Associate Vice Chancellor for Information
Management and Institutional Research at Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He
is also an Associate Professor at IUPUI’ Psychology Department.
Dr.
Borden’s primary research interests are in the areas of student progress
and performance, and institutional and program performance indicators.
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professional activities include consulting and teaching workshops on
program assessment, statistics, survey research and the use of technology
for assessment, decision support, and institutional analysis.
His most recent publications include the ACE/AIR monograph,
“Measuring quality: Choosing among surveys and other college and
university quality assessments.“ and chapters in The Scholarship of
Assessment (Trudy Banta, ed.,
2003) and the forthcoming book, “Engaging and changing higher education
through brokerage” (Norman Jackson, ed. In press).
Dr. Borden is currently President of the Association for
Institutional Research. |
Sarah Parrott has been actively involved with Institutional Research for ten years. Her first career was as a professional violinist, and she earned a BM in Violin Performance Cum Laude from California State University, Northridge in 1989. Sarah then earned a BA and MA in Experimental Psychology at Northridge, followed by an MA and Ph.D. in Higher Education from UCLA in 1998.
While at UCLA, Sarah
worked with the Higher Education Research Institute, best known for
administering the CIRP Freshman Survey, and many other national surveys of
students and faculty in higher education. Sarah’s mentor and advisor was
Alexander (Sandy) Astin. In 1997 Sarah co-authored The American Freshman:
Thirty Year Trends with Dr. Astin. While at UCLA, Sarah taught numerous
courses, including Introductory Psychology, Statistical Methods and Analysis,
Psychological Research Methods and Design, and Social Psychology of Higher
Education.
Sarah joined the Institutional Research Office at Tufts University in Massachusetts in 1997, and
founded the Office of Institutional Research at Brandeis University in 1999. Sarah is currently Director of Institutional Research at Brandeis University in
Massachusetts. She was elected to the Steering Committee for the Northeast Association for Institutional Research in 2001, and just finished a three-year
term on the CIRP Steering Committee. Her most rewarding and challenging endeavor, however, is as the mother of seven-year-old Catherine, a future
college student who will enter second grade this Fall.
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Paul
Umbach, Ph.D.
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Paul
D. Umbach is currently a Research Analyst at the National Survey of
Student Engagement (NSSE). In addition to his role as an analyst, he
coordinates the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, a national survey
that examines the ways in which faculty engage students in and out of the
classroom. Prior to joining NSSE, Dr. Umbach worked in institutional
research for more than 5 years. His research examines the impact that
organizational structures and social forces have on student outcomes and
the careers of faculty and senior administrators. |
| Dr.
Umbach has written several book chapters and published research articles
in numerous journals including The
Review of Higher Education, Research
in Higher Education, the Journal
of College Student Development, and Planning
for Higher Education. He also is co-editing two volumes on emerging
issues in survey research for the New Directions
in Institutional Research series. Dr. Umbach serves as a manuscript
reviewer for Research in Higher
Education and is on the editorial board for the Journal
of College Student Development. He earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education
in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the University of
Maryland, College Park. |
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