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John H. Pryor
...is the Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the longest-running and largest empirical study of higher education in the country. He is also the Managing Director of the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), where the CIRP surveys are administered. Before coming to HERI in 2005, he was the Director of Student Affairs Planning, Evaluation, and Research at Dartmouth College. He obtained his M.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia and his A.B. from Dartmouth College.
Mr. Pryor’s specific interests are in college student alcohol use, health issues, at-risk behaviors and survey research methodology. As the Director of the CIRP surveys, he conducts longitudinal research on the changing nature of college students and the impact of college.
Sylvia Hurtado
...is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. 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 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 is completing a project on how colleges are preparing students to achieve the cognitive, social, and democratic skills to participate in a diverse democracy. She is also engaged in a National Institutes of Health project on the preparation of underrepresented students for biomedical and behavioral science research careers.
Jessica Sharkness
...is a research analyst for the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. She obtained her A.B. in Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2003, her M.A. in Educational Research Methodology from UCLA in 2007, and is currently in the Higher Education and Organizational Change Ph.D. program at UCLA. Prior to coming to HERI, she worked for three years as a research analyst at the Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation at Tufts University. She has also interned as a research assistant at the Consortium on Financing Higher Education at MIT and the Office of Evaluation and Research at Dartmouth College. Ms. Sharkness’ research interests include evaluation and assessment in higher education, survey methodology, measurement, college student development, college impact, and the role of Institutional Research in higher education.
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.
For further information, please contact the Higher Education Research Institute at 310-825-1925 or via e-mail at heri@ucla.edu.