A Theory of Public Higher Education

Brief Project Overview

Indiana University announces the launching of a year-long project, A Theory of Public Higher Education. The project is a collaboration among IU Kokomo’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Society for Values in Higher Education, and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Generous funding has been provided by the IU Vice President for Research in support of Intercampus and Regional Campus Research and the Society for Values in Higher Education. The goal of the project is to imagine the future of public higher education at a time when Indiana University is celebrating its bicentennial and looking ahead to its third century as one of America’s great public universities.

Team

• Susan D. Blum, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame

• Oscar Fernandez, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Faculty Director, Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center, Wellesley College

• Mays Imad, Professor of Pathophysiology and Biomedical Ethics and Founding Coordinator, Teaching & Learning Center, Pima Community College

• Ryan Korstange, Assistant Professor, University Studies, Middle Tennessee State University (team leader for the project)

• Thomas F. Nelson Laird, Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Post Secondary Research, Indiana University

• Kate L. Pantelides, Associate Professor and Director of General Education English, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University