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The American Freshman - National Norms for 2005

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John Pryor comes from Dartmouth College, where he was director of student affairs planning, evaluation and research in the Office of the Dean of the College, and research assistant professor at Dartmouth Medical School. He is a psychologist by training. His specific interests are in survey research methodology, including Web-based surveys; college student alcohol use; health issues; and at-risk behaviors. He brings expertise in institutional research, student affairs issues, program evaluation and survey methods to the institute. As director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) John coordinates survey development and administration, and advances the use of the data for institutional planning and national research in higher education.  John also serves as the Associate Director of HERI.

Sylvia Hurtado is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. Just prior to coming to UCLA, she served as Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Dr. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary interest in student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact on student development, and diversity in higher education.  She has served on numerous editorial boards for journals in education and served on the boards for the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the Higher Learning Commission, and is past-President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Black Issues In Higher Education named her among the top 15 influential faculty whose work has had an impact on the academy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and A.B. from Princeton University in Sociology.  Dr. Hurtado has coordinated several national research projects, including a U.S. Department of Education-sponsored project on how colleges are preparing students to achieve the cognitive, social, and democratic skills to participate in a diverse democracy.  She is launching a National Institutes of Health project on the preparation of underrepresented students for biomedical and behavioral science research careers. She has also studied assessment, reform, and innovation in undergraduate education on a project through the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement.

Victor B. Saenz has been with the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) for over three years as a research analyst and currently is serving as Director of Follow-Up Surveys for the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). In this role, Mr. Saenz oversees two national survey programs focused on the college student experience. Mr. Saenz received his B.A. (1996) in Mathematics and his Masters in Public Affairs (1999) both from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a Master of Arts (2002) and a Ph.D. in Education (2005) from UCLA. Mr. Saenz is a former Spencer Foundation Fellow, and his research interests include: assessing the educational benefits of racial diversity on college campuses; desegregation issues; exploring the leakages in the Education pipeline for underrepresented students; and, chronicling the policy impacts of changing affirmative action and remedial education policies in higher education. His dissertation is titled "Breaking the cycle of segregation: Examining students' pre-college racial environments and their diversity experiences in college."

Jennifer A. Lindholm is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change and Associate Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) at the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI).  Dr. Lindholm also directs HERI’s Triennial National Faculty Survey and the Institute’s newest program of research on spirituality in higher education.  Dr. Lindholm received her B.A. degrees (1990) in psychology and physical education from Whittier College, her M.S. (1995) in kinesiology and health promotion from California State University, Fullerton, and her M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in higher education and organizational change from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lindholm's research focuses primarily on the structural and cultural dimensions of academic work; the career development, work experiences, and professional behavior of college and university faculty; and issues related to institutional change within colleges and universities. 

William S. Korn is HERI's Associate Director for Operations and has managed the data processing side of HERI since 1982.  Bill computes the National Norms tables for our survey reports; produces the Institutional Profiles, special reports and data files for participating institutions; maintains HERI's research data bases; manages HERI's local area network; and advises students, researchers and staff about data and data analysis issues.  He serves as primary instructor for Level 1 of the annual CIRP Summer Workshop; co-teaches the HERI-designed class in data analysis using SPSS at the UCLA Graduate School of Education; and presents at various conferences.  Bill began his programmer/analyst career in 1967 at System Development Corporation in Santa Monica, and has worked at the Statistical Research Unit of the Brentwood Veteran's Hospital as well as UCLA's Center for Computer-Based Behavioral Studies and Institute for Social Science Research.  He earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from California State University at Northridge in 1975.

Kathryn (Kit) Mahoney holds a B.A. in Psychology and an MBA, both of which are extremely useful in working as HERI's business manager.

For further information, please contact the Higher Education Research Institute at 310-825-1925 or via e-mail at heri@ucla.edu.