Jeni Hart
Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Studies
University of Missouri
Professional Bio
Dr. Jeni Hart is the Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri. She is also Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA). Dr. Hart joined ELPA as an assistant professor in 2003.
She completed her BS in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, her MEd in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration at University of Vermont, and her PhD in Higher Education Administration at the University of Arizona. Prior to becoming a faculty member, she worked for 9 years as a student affairs educator, and one year as a faculty member at Southeast Missouri State University.
Her scholarship centers on three mutually reinforcing themes: faculty work, gender and feminisms, and campus climate. She is particularly interested in how higher education as an organization reinforces oppressive structures, and how faculty activism seeks to dismantle them. Her publications have appeared in the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Higher Education, NASPA Journal of Women and Gender, and the Journal of Diversity of Higher Education, among others.
She has been an ASHE member since 1999, serving in numerous roles, including as a graduate student board member for the ASHE-ERIC Report Series, session chair, regular conference proposal reviewer, discussant, ad hoc reviewer for the Review of Higher Education, member of a conference program committee, member of the Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award committee, executive board member for CAHEP, and editorial board member of the Review of Higher Education. She served as President of ASHE in 2024.
She completed her BS in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, her MEd in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration at University of Vermont, and her PhD in Higher Education Administration at the University of Arizona. Prior to becoming a faculty member, she worked for 9 years as a student affairs educator, and one year as a faculty member at Southeast Missouri State University.
Her scholarship centers on three mutually reinforcing themes: faculty work, gender and feminisms, and campus climate. She is particularly interested in how higher education as an organization reinforces oppressive structures, and how faculty activism seeks to dismantle them. Her publications have appeared in the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Higher Education, NASPA Journal of Women and Gender, and the Journal of Diversity of Higher Education, among others.
She has been an ASHE member since 1999, serving in numerous roles, including as a graduate student board member for the ASHE-ERIC Report Series, session chair, regular conference proposal reviewer, discussant, ad hoc reviewer for the Review of Higher Education, member of a conference program committee, member of the Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award committee, executive board member for CAHEP, and editorial board member of the Review of Higher Education. She served as President of ASHE in 2024.
Institution/Organization
University of Missouri
University of Missouri
General Member