he study of higher education is decades old. In 1976 the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) emerged from the now defunct American Association for Higher Education to become a location for scholars studying the postsecondary ecosystem in which they worked and the people who populated it.
Several generations of scholars later, ASHE is still a favored association for higher education researchers, but over time more members have developed careers as scholar-practitioners, policy leaders, and activists working in higher education as well as allied public and non-profit agencies. And at the same time, scholars of higher education find welcoming spaces in other academic associations (e.g., economics, political science, law). The result is a simultaneous consolidation and fracturing of what has come to be seen as the “higher education research community,” with continuing frustration that the potential for research to inform and influence practice and policy remains not fully realized. More than 40 years into this project, it is time to reimagine the study of higher education.
LOCATION:Portland, OR STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20191113T050000Z DTEND:20191116T050000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR