| RESEARCH TEAM
Alexander W. Astin, Co-Principal Investigator
Helen S. Astin, Co-Principal Investigator
Jennifer A. Lindholm, Project Director
Alexander W. Astin
Alexander W. Astin is Allan M. Cartter
Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the University
of California, Los Angeles and Founding Director
of the Higher Education Research Institute
at UCLA. He has served as Director of
Research for both the American Council
on Education and the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation. He is the Founding Director
of the Cooperative Institutional Research
Program, an ongoing national study of
some twelve million students, 300,000 faculty
and staff, and 1,600 higher education
institutions.
Dr.
Astin has authored 20 books and some 300
other publications in the field of higher
education, and has been a recipient of
awards for outstanding research from more
than a dozen national associations and
professional societies. He has also been
elected to membership in the National
Academy of Education, has been a fellow
at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University,
and is the recipient of eleven honorary degrees.
A 1990 study in the Journal of Higher
Education identified Dr. Astin as the
most frequently-cited author in the field
of higher education. In 1985 readers of
Change magazine selected Dr. Astin as
the person "most admired for creative,
insightful thinking" in the field
of higher education. His latest book (with
H.S. Astin) is Leadership Reconsidered:
Engaging Higher Education in Social Change
(W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2000).
aastin@gseis.ucla.edu
Helen S. Astin
Helen S. Astin, a psychologist, is Professor Emeritus
of Higher Education and Senior Scholar
of the Higher Education Research Institute
at UCLA. She served as the Associate Provost
of the College of Letters and Science
at UCLA from 1983 to 1987.
Helen Astin has been a trustee of Mt.
St. Mary's College since 1985, and served
as a trustee of Hampshire College from
1972 to 1979. She has served on the Board
of Governors of the Center for Creative
Leadership, and on the Board of the National
Council for Research on Women. In the
American Psychological Association, Dr.
Astin has served on the Boards of Policy
and Planning and Education and Training
and has been president of the Division
of the Psychology of Women. She has also
served as Chair of the Board of the American
Association for Higher Education.
Helen Astin has been honored with the
Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Research and Literature of the National
Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
She is a recipient of the Distinguished
Research Award of Division J of the American
Education Research Association, and recently
received the Howard Bowen Distinguished
Career Award from the Association for
the Study of Higher Education.
She has published numerous articles and
eleven books, including Women of Influence,
Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational
Study of Leaders and Social Change (1991)
and The Woman Doctorate in America (1969).
Her research and current writings focus
on leadership and on spirituality in higher
education.
hastin@gseis.ucla.edu
Jennifer A. Lindholm
Jennifer A. Lindholm is Associate Director for the Office of Undergraduate Education and Research in the College of Letters and Science of UCLA. She served as Associate Director
of the Cooperative Institutional Research
Program at UCLA's Higher Education Research
Institute and Director of the Institute's
Triennial National Faculty Survey from 2001-2006. Her scholarship focuses on the
structural and cultural dimensions of
academic work; the career development,
work experiences, and professional behavior
of college and university faculty; issues
related to institutional change; and undergraduate
students' personal development.
jlindhol@ucla.edu
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