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
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Year |
President |
Bio |
Presidential Address |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1984 | Kathryn M. Moore | Bio | The Structure of Administrative Careers: A Prose Poem in Four Parts |
| 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 |
| 1987 | David W. Leslie | Bio | The Common Law of the Academic Profession: An Assessment |
| 1988 | Clifton Conrad | Bio | Meditations on the Ideology of Inquiry in Higher Education: Exposition, Critique, and Conjecture |
| 1989 | Ellen Earle Chaffee | Bio | On Doing the Right Thing: ASHE Presidential Address |
| 1990 | Ernest T. Pascarella | Bio | The Impact of College on Students: The Nature of the Evidence |
| 1991 | Judith Dozier Hackman | Bio | What is Going On in Higher Education?: Is It Time for a Change? |
| 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 |
| 1994 | Elaine El-Khawas | Bio | Searching for Campus Trends: Ambiguities in the Study of Higher Education |
| 1995 | Patrick Terenzini | Bio | Rediscovering Roots: Public Policy and Higher Education Research |
| 1996 | Sheila Slaughter | Dr. Slaughter's presidential report was not published in the Review of Higher Education and a copy has not been located. | |
| 1997 | George Kuh | Bio | 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 |
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| 1999 | Laura Rendon | Bio | Academics of the Heart: Reconnecting the Scientific Mind with the Spirit's Artistry |
| 2000 | John Thelin | Bio | Campus and Community: A World Turned Inside Out? |
| 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 |
| 2003 | John M. Braxton | Bio | Reflections on a Scholarship of Practice |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| 2011 | Linda Serra Hagedorn | Bio | The Meaning of Academic Life |
| 2012 | Anna Neumann | Staking a Claim on Learning: What We Should Know About Learning in Higher Education and Why Print | Video |
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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 Print | Video |
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| 2015 | Laura W. Perna | Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Ten Ways to Ensure That Higher Education Research Continues to Matter Print | Video |
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| 2016 | Scott Thomas | No copies are available | |
| 2017 | Shaun R. Harper | Power to the People Video |
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| 2018 | Lori Patton Davis | Envisioning the Woke Academy Video |
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| 2019 | Kristen A. Renn | Reimagining the Study of Higher Education: Generous Thinking, Chaos, and Order in a Low Consensus Field Print | Video |
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| 2020 | KerryAnn O'Meara | Leveraging, Checking, and Structuring Faculty Discretion to Advance Full Participation Print | Video |
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| 2021 | D-L Stewart | Spanning & Unsettling the Borders of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education Print | Video |
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| 2022 | Joy Gaston Gayles | Towards a Model for Humanizing Higher Education: Implications for Policy, Research, and Practice Print | Video |
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| 2023 | Ana M. Martínez-Alemán | Higher Education Research: Geographies Beyond the Front Yard Print (Coming Soon) | Video |