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Home: Academics: Units: Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education

CSHPE 50th: The Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series: Organizational Behavior and Management

 

Organizational Behavior and Management Lecture
Monday, December 4, 2006

Dr. Patricia Gumport has been named the Distinguished Scholar for the Organizational Behavior and Management Lecture. Dr. Gumport is Professor of Higher Education at Stanford University and serves as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research. She has received several honors, including the 2006 American Educational Research Association’s Higher Education Exemplary Research Award in recognition of her outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of higher education.

Through sociological analyses of American higher education, Dr. Gumport has illuminated the organizational, political and intellectual interests that redefine the content, structure and relative legitimacy of academic fields. She has examined the tensions arising during academic restructuring under budgetary constraints, the structural and normative strains in graduate education, and the impact of statewide academic planning initiatives on public higher education. She and Dr. Michael Bastedo (assistant professor, CSPHE) published their recent work on academic stratification in Higher Education and the Review of Higher Education. Dr. Gumport has two forthcoming books—Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts and Academic Restructuring: The Ascendance of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education—both with Johns Hopkins University Press.