Faculty Vita

George Kuh, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Other Administrative Responsibilities

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Kuh, G.D. (1997). Strengthening the ties that bind: Cultural events, traditions, and rituals. In J.N. Gardner and G. Van der Veer (Eds.), The senior year experience: Facilitating integration, reflection, closure, and transition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Kuh, G.D. (1997). Working together to enhance student learning inside and outside the classroom. In B. Cambridge (Ed.), Assessing impact: Evidence and action. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education.

Kuh, G.D., & Vesper, N. (1997). A comparison of student experiences with good practices in undergraduate education between 1990 and 1994. Review of Higher Education, 21, 43-61.

Banta, T.W., & Kuh, G.D. (1998). A missing link in assessment: Collaboration between academic and student affairs. Change, 30(2), 40-46.

Kuh, G.D. (1998). Shaping student character. Liberal Education, 84(3), 18-25.

Kuh, G.D. (1999). How are we doing? Tracking the quality of the undergraduate experience, 1960s to the present. The Review of Higher Education, 22, 99-119.

Kuh, G.D., Hu, S. (1999). Unraveling the complexity of the increase in college grades from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21, 297-320.

Arnold, K., & Kuh, G.D. (1999). What matters in undergraduate education? Mental models, student learning, and student affairs. In E.J. Whitt (Ed.). Student learning as student affairs work: Responding to our imperative. Washington, DC: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Kuh, G.D., Hu, S., & Vesper, N. (2000). AThey shall be known by what they do@: An activities-based typology of college students. Journal of College Student Development, 41, 228-244.

Kuh, G.D., & P.G. Love (2000). A cultural perspective on student departure. In J. Braxton (Ed.), Rethinking the departure puzzle: New theory and research on college student retention. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

Kuh, G.D. (2001). College students today: Why we can=t leave serendipity to chance. In P. Altbach, P. Gumport, and B. Johnstone (Eds.), In defense of the American university. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kuh, G.D., & Hu, S. (2001). Learning productivity at research universities. Journal of Higher Education, 72, 1-28.

Kuh, G.D., & Hu, S. (2001). The effects of student-faculty interaction in the 1990s. The Review of Higher Education, 24, 309-332.

Kuh, G.D. (2001). Assessing what really matters to student learning: Inside the National Survey of Student Engagement. Change, 33(3), 10-17, 66.

Kuh, G.D., Gonyea, R.M., & Rodriguez, D.P. (2002). Assessing student development during the college years. In T.W. Banta (Ed.)., The scholarship of assessment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Funded Projects

The impact of college on the adult learner. Spencer Foundation, 1977-1978, $4800 (Principal investigator).

The relationship between college and post-college experiences and personality functioning ten years after college graduation. Spencer Foundation, 1980, $4800 (Principal investigator).

Assessing the quality of the undergraduate experience. National Institute of Education/ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, 1980-1981, $1000 (Principal investigator).

Factors related to high quality out-of-class experiences of college students. The Lilly Endowment, Inc., 1988-90, $129,785; NASPA Institute for Research and Development, $5,000; Marriott Corporation Educational Services Division, $10,000 (Director and co-principal investigator).

The impact of responsibility center budgeting on selected academic and financial indicators at a research university. Indiana University School of Education Proffitt Endowment, 1988-89, $8,442 (Co-principal investigator). The student experience at involving colleges. The Lilly Endowment, Inc., $29,119 (Principal investigator).

Environmental influences on alcohol use by college students. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, United States Department of Education, 1990, $3,000 (Principal investigator).

Cultural aspects of fraternities and sororities that encourage and discourage hazardous use of alcohol: An exploratory study. Indiana University School of Education Proffitt Endowment, 1991-92, $9997 (Principal investigator).

Pilot study of the National Survey of Student Engagement. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and The Pew Charitable Trusts, 1999, $359,000 (Principal investigator)

Implementation of the National Survey of Student Engagement. The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2000-2002, $3,330,000 (Principal investigator)

Development of a post-master=s certificate program in institutional research. Association for Institutional Research/National Center for Education Statistics, 2001-2002, $15,000 (Principal investigator and project co-director)

Promoting student success: Using student engagement data to improve educational practice. Lumina Foundation for Education, 2002-2004, $1,345,000 (Principal investigator)

Post-master=s certificate program in institutional research fellowship program. Association for Institutional Research/National Center for Education Statistics, 2002-03, $60,000 (Principal investigator and project co-director)

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Association for Higher Education

American College Personnel Association

American Educational Research Association, Division J

Association for the Study of Higher Education

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

Conference Presentations

Navigating uncharted waters: Exploring new directions in student learning. Keynote address to the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 1997.

The student learning agenda: New realities for academic advisors. Keynote address to the annual meeting of the National Association of Academic Advisors, Kansas City, October 1997.

How are we doing? Tracking the quality of the undergraduate experience from the 1960s to the present. Presidential address to the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Albuquerque, November 1997.

What matters in undergraduate education? 1997 Chester Peters Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, April 1997.

Partnerships for learning: Building bridges for student success. Marlin R. Schmidt Memorial Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 1999.

Researching peer culture in higher education: The next century. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2000.

College student engagement in good practices in undergraduate education from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2000.

College students today: Why we can=t leave serendipity to chance. Baldwin Lecture, Truman State University, Kirksville, February 2001.

Undergraduate education at the turn of the century: Lessons from NSSE 2000. Higher Education Lecture, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, March 2001.

Organizing for student success. Invited presentation to the Independent Sector Track at the National Conference on Trusteeship, San Francisco, April 2001.

Using NSSE to promote persistence and student success. Plenary address to the UW System Conference on the Use of Empirical Research in Improving Retention, Madison, June 2001.

Liberal education as transformation: Contemporary students and the values question. Plenary address to the AAC&U Symposium on Liberal Learning and the Challenge of Uncommon Values, Washington, January 2002.

Student engagement in the first year of college. Plenary address to the National First-Year Experience and Transitions Conference, Orlando, February 2002.

What can we learn about the next generation of teachers from student engagement patterns in college? Presented at the annual meeting of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council, New York, February 2002.

What we've learned about student engagement from the first two years of NSSE. Invited Student Life and Learning Plenary Track address to the Association of Institutional Research annual meeting, Toronto, May 2002.

Research Areas

Kuh's research and scholarly interests focus on assessing student learning and the institutional conditions that foster student success, campus cultures, and current issues in higher education.

Service/Outreach Projects

Franklin College audit with an emphasis on diversity issues. Franklin College and The Lilly Endowment, Inc., 1990-91, $7,350 (Principal investigator).

The quality of campus life for undergraduates at Western Washington University campus audit. Western Washington University, 1990-91, $15,000 (Director and Co-principal investigator). Preparing for a covenanting partnership: An cultural exploration of Bethany Theological Seminary and the Earlham School of Religion. Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning, Indiana University School of Education, 1992-93, $23,500 (Principal investigator).

Undergraduate student life at the University of Western Ontario: Perceptions and paradoxes. Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning, Indiana University School of Education, 1994-95, $21,000 (Principal investigator).

A study of the climate for undergraduate learning at Wake Forest University. Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning, Indiana University School of Education, 1994-95, $14,000 (Principal investigator).

A study of campus life at Saint Meinrad College. Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning, Indiana University School of Education, 1997, $12,000 (Principal investigator).

The quality of the undergraduate experience at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning, Indiana University School of Education, 1997, $28,000 (Principal investigator).

National Advisory Board, Policy Center on the First Year of College, 1999-

Community College Survey of Student Engagement National Advisory Board, 2001

Community College Survey of Student Engagement Technical Advisory Panel, 2001

(Chair)

Honors/Awards

Sidney Suslow Award, Association for Institutional Research, 2002

Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Millikin University, 2002

Tracy Sonneborn Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research, Indiana University, 2001

Academic Leadership Award, Council of Independent Colleges, 2001

Albert B. Hood Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Iowa, 2001

Research Achievement Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2000

Campus Life Division Faculty Recognition Award, Indiana University, 1998

Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University, 1997, 1998

Educational Leadership Award for Teaching, St. Cloud State University, 1996

Best Forum Paper, Association for Institutional Research, 1996

Outstanding Contribution to Student Affairs through Teaching, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Region IV-E, 1996

Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Luther College, 1994

Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, 1994

Contribution to Literature and Research, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, 1987

Contribution to Knowledge, American College Personnel Association, 1986

Outstanding Service to the Profession, New York College Personnel Association, 1986

Outstanding Research, Commission III American College Personnel Association, 1984

Visiting Scholar, James Madison University, 1994

Who's Who in American Education, 1989, 1990

Charter Honoree, National Distinguished Service Registry, American Association for Counseling and Development/Library of Congress, 1989

Advisory Group, Applied Research Program, U.S. Department of Education, 1989

Senior Scholar Diplomate, American College Personnel Association