The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education: Meet the Team
Front Row(l to r): Julie DeGraw, Patricia King, Anat Levtov
Middle Row (l to r): Kelley Walczak, Marie Kendall Brown, Jim Barber
Back Row (l to r): Nick Bowman, Ethan Stephenson, Cassie Barnhardt, Nathan Lindsay
Patricia M. King is professor of Higher Education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan. Dr. King's teaching and research focus on learning and development among late adolescents and adults, including college students. She is especially interested in approaches to student development that explore the intersections among developmental domains, such as intellectual, identity and social development, and how these affect collegiate outcomes ranging from citizenship to intercultural maturity to character development. In addition to having published over 50 articles, she has written two books. In 1994, she and her colleague Karen Strohm Kitchener wrote Developing Reflective Judgment, which focuses on student intellectual development and its relationship to development in other domains. In 2004, she joined Marcia Baxter Magolda in editing Learning Partnerships: Theories and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-Authorship. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the University of Michigan team of the National Study of Liberal Arts Education sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. She served as the founding editor of About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience, a bi-monthly publication sponsored by the American College Personnel Association and published by Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers from 1995-2002. In addition to her faculty roles, she has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan (2003-06), Chair of the Department of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Bowling Green State University (1993-98) as Assistant Vice President for Student Services at Ohio State University (1979-81) and as Senior Research Psychologist at the University of Iowa (1977-1981).
Dr. King can be reached by phone at (734) 615-6740, or by e-mail at patking@umich.edu
Marcia Baxter Magolda is Distinguished Professor of Educational 
Leadership at Miami University of Ohio (USA). She received her masters and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Higher Education. She teaches student development theory and inquiry courses in the College Student Personnel masters program. Her scholarship addresses the evolution of learning and development in college and young adult life, the role of gender in development, and pedagogy to promote self-authorship. Her books include Learning Partnerships: Theory and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-Authorship (Stylus Press, 2004), Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development (Stylus Press, 2001), Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-Authorship: Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999), and Knowing and Reasoning in College (Jossey-Bass, 1992). She serves as the Executive Editor of About Campus, served as a member of the American College Personnel Association Senior Scholars, and was named as one of 40 young leaders in academe by Change magazine. She also received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ Robert H. Shaffer Award for Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member, American College Personnel Association’s Contribution to Knowledge Award, and Miami University’s Benjamin Harrison Medallion.
At present, the following University of Michigan doctoral students assist Dr. King at the University of Michigan:
- Jim Barber (2004-Present)
- Marie Kendall Brown (2003-Present)
- Anat Levtov (2006-Present)
- Nathan Lindsay (2003-Present)
- Ethan Stephenson (2004-Present)
- Kelley Walczak (2007-Present)
Over the years, a growing number of University of Michigan doctoral students have been active members of the research team including:
- Cassie Barnhardt (2005-2006)
- Julie DeGraw (2004-2006)
- Cindy Jiang (2004-2006)
- Kimberly Johnson (2004-2006)
- Lisa Landreman (2004-2005)
- Gesice Ly (2004-2006)
- Matt Mayhew (2003-2004)
- Donna Scheidt (2005-2006)
- JoNes VanHecke (2003-2006)
