Ann E. Austin

Ann E. Austin is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University (MSU), where she has served on the faculty in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education in the College of Education since 1991. She has recently served as Interim Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs (2022-2023), and previously as Interim Dean of the College of Education (2021-2022), Associate Dean for Research (2016-2021), and Assistant Provost for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs (2016-2021). She has been a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) (2015-2016), a U.S. Fulbright Fellow (1998, South Africa), and President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and has served as Co-Chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. She was one of the co-founders of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), a multi-institutional collaboration that has prepared more than 20,000 doctoral students to be excellent teachers. Her international work in higher education has taken her to more than fifteen countries. Her research and grant-funded projects concern organizational change in higher education; academic work, careers, and professional development; creating more inclusive and equitable academic workplaces; gender equity; teaching and learning issues in undergraduate education, including teaching evaluation; doctoral education; and STEM education. Dr. Austin has published extensively, including, among others, the following books: Transforming College Teaching Evaluation: A Framework for Advancing Instructional Excellence (2025, with N. D. Finkelstein, A Follmer Greenhoot, D. Ward, and G. C. Weaver), and Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change (2020, with S. Laursen).