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 https://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

1979

Robert O. Berdahl

The Academic Guild: Self Criticism and Self Evaluation

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

1983

Marvin W. Peterson

Decline, New Demands, and Quality: The Context for Renewal

1984

Kathryn M. Moore

The Structure of Administrative Careers: A Prose Poem in

1985

Joan S. Stark

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

Leadership and Learning: The College President as Intuitive Scientist

1987

David W. Leslie

The Common Law of the Academic Profession: An Assessment

1988

Clifton Conrad

Meditations on the Ideology of Inquiry in Higher Education
Exposition, Critique, and Conjecture

1989

Ellen Earle Chaffee

On Doing the Right Thing: ASHE Presidential Address

1990

Ernest T. Pascarella

The Impact of College on Students: The Nature of the Evidence

1991

Judith Dozier Hackman

What is Going On in Higher Education?: Is It Time for a Change?

1992

Shirley M. Clark

Higher Education and School Reform

1993

Michael T. Nettles

Presidential The Emerging National Policy Agenda on Higher
Education Assessment: A Wake-Up Call

1994

Elaine El-Khawas

Searching for Campus Trends: Ambiguities in the Study of Higher Education

1995

Patrick Terenzini

Rediscovering Roots: Public Policy and Higher Education
Research

1996

Sheila Slaughter

Federal Policy and Supply-Side Institutional Resource Allocation at Public Research Universities

1997

George Kuh

How Are We Doing?Tracking the Quality of the Undergraduate Experience, 1960s to the Present

1998

Yvonna Lincoln

When Research is Not Enough: Community, Care, and Love

1999

Laura Rendon

Academics of the Heart: Reconnecting the Scientific Mind
with the Spirit's Artistry

2000

John Thelin

Campus and Community: A Wolrd Turned Inside Out?

2001

Ann E. Austin

Creating a Bridge to the Future: Preparing New Faculty to
Free Changing Expectations in a Shifting Context

2002

William G. Tierney

Remembrance of Things Past: Trust and the Obligations of
the Intellectual

2003

John M. Braxton

Reflections on a Scholarship of Practice

2004

Gary Rhoades

The Higher Education We Choose: A Question of Balance

2005

Sylvia Hurtado

Linking Diversity with the Educational and Civic Missions of
Higher Education

2006

Estela Mara Bensimon

The Underestimated Significance of Practitioner Knowledge
in the Scholarship on Student Success

2007

Linda Johnsrud

Faculty Work: Making our Research Matter - More

2008

Linda Eisenmann

Practicing What I Teach: Does a Career as a Higher
Education Professor Inform My Work as a Dean?

2009

Jeffrey Milem

Considering Our Legacy: Doing Work that Really Matters

2010

William Zumeta

What Does It Mean to Be Accountable?: Dimensions and
Implications of Higher Education's Public Accountability

2011

Linda Serra Hagedorn

The Meaning of Academic Life

2012

Anna Neumann

Staking a Claim on Learning: What We Should Know About
Learning in Higher Education and Why | Video

2013

Lisa Wolf-Wendel

2014

Caroline S. Turner

Lessons From the Field: Cultivating Nurturing Environments
in Higher Education | Video

2015

Laura W. Perna

Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Ten Ways to Ensure That
Higher Education Research Continues to Matter | Video

2016

Scott Thomas

2017

Shaun R. Harper

2018

Lori Patton Davis

2019

Kristen A. Renn

Reimagining the Study of Higher Education: Generous
Thinking, Chaos, and Order in a Low Consensus Field
| Video

2020

KerryAnn O'Meara

Leveraging, Checking, and Structuring Faculty Discretion to Advance Full Participation

2021

D-L Stewart

Spanning & Unsettling the Borders of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education | Video | P rint

2022

Joy Gaston Gayles

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