Past Presidents

For an overview of ASHE Presidential Addresses, we encourage you to read Drs. Ezekiel Kimball and Rachel E. Friedensen Review of Higher Education article titled “The Search for Meaning in Higher Education Research: A Discourse Analysis of ASHE Presidential Addresses" and available at muse.jhu.edu/article/729353

 

Year

President

Bio

Presidential Address

1977 C. Robert Pace   Dr. Pace's presidential report was not published in the Review of Higher Education and a copy has not been located.
1978 Kenneth P. Mortimer   Report from the President
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1979 Robert O. Berdahl Bio The Academic Guild: Self Criticism and Self Evaluation
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1980 Burton R. Clark   Dr. Clark's presidential address was not published in the Review of Higher Education and a copy has not been able to be located in the UCLA Archives where Dr. Clark's papers are stored.
1981 Howard R. Bowen   Dr. Bowen's presidential address was not published in the Review of Higher Education and a copy has not been able to be located in the University of Iowa Archives where Dr. Bowen's papers are stored.
1982 Joseph F. Kauffman   Some Perspective on Hard Times
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1983 Marvin W. Peterson Bio Decline, New Demands, and Quality: The Context for Renewal
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1984 Kathryn M. Moore Bio The Structure of Administrative Careers: A Prose Poem in Four Parts
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1985 Joan S. Stark Bio Dr. Stark's presidential address was not published in the Review of Higher Education and a copy has not been able to be located.

 

1986 Robert Birnbaum Bio Leadership and Learning: The College President as Intuitive Scientist
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1987 David W. Leslie Bio The Common Law of the Academic Profession: An Assessment
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1988 Clifton Conrad Bio Meditations on the Ideology of Inquiry in Higher Education: Exposition, Critique, and Conjecture
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1989 Ellen Earle Chaffee Bio On Doing the Right Thing: ASHE Presidential Address
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1990 Ernest T. Pascarella Bio The Impact of College on Students: The Nature of the Evidence
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1991 Judith Dozier Hackman Bio What is Going On in Higher Education?: Is It Time for a Change?
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1992 Shirley M. Clark   Higher Education and School Reform
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1993 Michael T. Nettles Bio Presidential The Emerging National Policy Agenda on Higher Education Assessment: A Wake-Up Call
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1994 Elaine El-Khawas Bio Searching for Campus Trends: Ambiguities in the Study of Higher Education
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1995 Patrick Terenzini Bio Rediscovering Roots: Public Policy and Higher Education Research
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1996 Sheila Slaughter   Federal Policy and Supply-Side Institutional Resource Allocation at Public Research Universities
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1997 George Kuh Bio How Are We Doing? Tracking the Quality of the Undergraduate Experience, 1960s to the Present
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1998 Yvonna Lincoln   When Research is Not Enough: Community, Care, and Love
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1999 Laura Rendon Bio Academics of the Heart: Reconnecting the Scientific Mind with the Spirit's Artistry
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2000 John Thelin Bio Campus and Community: A World Turned Inside Out?
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2001 Ann E. Austin   Creating a Bridge to the Future: Preparing New Faculty to Free Changing Expectations in a Shifting Context
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2002 William G. Tierney Bio Remembrance of Things Past: Trust and the Obligations of the Intellectual
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2003 John M. Braxton Bio Reflections on a Scholarship of Practice
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2004 Gary Rhoades   The Higher Education We Choose: A Question of Balance
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2005 Sylvia Hurtado   Linking Diversity with the Educational and Civic Missions of Higher Education
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2006 Estela Mara Bensimon Bio The Underestimated Significance of Practitioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student Success
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2007 Linda Johnsrud   Faculty Work: Making our Research Matter—More
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2008 Linda Eisenmann Bio Practicing What I Teach: Does a Career as a Higher Education Professor Inform My Work as a Dean?
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2009 Jeffrey Milem   Considering Our Legacy: Doing Work that Really Matters
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2010 William Zumeta Bio What Does It Mean to Be Accountable?: Dimensions and Implications of Higher Education's Public Accountability
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2011 Linda Serra Hagedorn Bio The Meaning of Academic Life
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2012 Anna Neumann   Staking a Claim on Learning: What We Should Know About Learning in Higher Education and Why
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2013 Lisa Wolf-Wendel   No copies available
2014 Caroline S. Turner   Lessons From the Field: Cultivating Nurturing Environments in Higher Education
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2015 Laura W. Perna   Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Ten Ways to Ensure That Higher Education Research Continues to Matter
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2016 Scott Thomas   No copies are available
2017 Shaun R. Harper   Power to the People
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2018 Lori Patton Davis   Envisioning the Woke Academy
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2019 Kristen A. Renn   Reimagining the Study of Higher Education: Generous Thinking, Chaos, and Order in a Low Consensus Field
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2020 KerryAnn O'Meara   Leveraging, Checking, and Structuring Faculty Discretion to Advance Full Participation
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2021 D-L Stewart   Spanning & Unsettling the Borders of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education
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2022 Joy Gaston Gayles   Towards a Model for Humanizing Higher Education: Implications for Policy, Research, and Practice
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2023 Ana M. Martínez-Alemán   Higher Education Research: Geographies Beyond the Front Yard
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