Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education; Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education; and Assistant Provost for Faculty Development at Michigan State University
About
Ann E. Austin is a professor of higher, adult, and lifelong education at Michigan State University, where she also serves as associate dean for research in the College of Education and assistant provost for faculty development—career paths. Recently she was on leave for almost two years to serve as a program director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. Her research concerns organizational change, faculty careers, teaching and learning in higher education, doctoral education, and reform in STEM education. She is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a past-president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), co-PI of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and she was a Fulbright fellow in South Africa (1998). Her work is widely published, including Faculty Development in the Age of Evidence: Current Practices, Future Imperatives (with Beach, Sorcinelli, & Rivard, 2016), Educating Integrated Professionals: Theory and Practice on Preparation for the Professoriate (with Colbeck & O'Meara, 2008), and Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education's Strategic Imperative (with Gappa & Trice, 2007). She has worked on higher education issues in more than one dozen countries outside the United States.
Current Work:
Principal Investigator. Collaborative Research: Transforming the Evaluation of Teaching: A Study of Institutional Change to Advance STEM Undergraduate Education. Proposal awarded in collaboration with awards to University of Massachusetts Amherst (PI G. Weaver), University of Colorado Boulder (PI N. Finkelstein), and University of Kansas (PI A. Greenhout). Funded by the National Science Foundation (DUE Grant #1725956).
Co-Principal Investigator 2013-2015, 2017)/Co-Leader (2016-2017). The CIRTL Network: 25 Research Universities Preparing a National Faculty to Advance Undergraduate Learning. Funded by the National Science Foundation (DUE #1231286). Principal Investigator, Using Networks to Scale Improvement of STEM Undergraduate Education: A Comparative Study of Network Goals, Processes, and Strategies to Advance Organizational Change. Funded by the National Science Foundation (DUE Grant# 1725320).
Research Area Keyword(s):
Faculty and academic staff; professional development in higher education; organizational change; doctoral education; improving postsecondary teaching and learning
