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BGSU PROFESSOR
RANKED AMONG NATION’S TOP
10 HIGHER EDUCATION ‘INFLUENCERS’
BOWLING GREEN, O.--Dr. Donald Gehring,
director of the School of Leadership and Policy Studies
and a professor of higher education administration/college
student personnel at Bowling Green State University, has
been identified by higher education practitioners nationwide
as one of the 10 professionals who most influenced their
education and careers in student affairs.
The "Professional Influence"
project, sponsored by the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators Foundation, was designed to determine
factors that influenced significantly the thinking and
work of current student affairs professionals and to identify
those individuals who have had the greatest professional
impact in the field.
Of those who participated in the
project, more than 65 percent were chief student affairs
officers, associate/assistant vice presidents/deans, or
directors/department heads at major colleges and universities
throughout the country. Others identified as "Professional
Influencers" by the student affairs professionals
were Alexander Astin, Arthur Chickering, John Gardner,
Melvene Hardee, George Kuh, Ted Miller, Ernest Pascarella,
Gary Pavela and Charles Schroeder.
Gehring
is among the most widely sought-after speakers and consultants
in the field of higher education, where he holds an international
reputation in the area of higher education and the law.
His scholarship in a wide
variety of areas, from academic freedom to parental notification
policy, is evidenced by a publication record that places
him in the top echelon of professors of higher education
nationwide, and he is frequently lauded by professional
organizations.
Gehring was the first person in
the history of the National Association of Student Personnel
Administrators to receive both the Outstanding Contribution
to Research Award and the Shaffer Award for Excellence
as a Graduate Faculty member. He was also both a Senior
Scholar and a Diamond Anniversary Honoree of the American
College Personnel Association’s Educational Leadership
Foundation.
Gehring will retire from Bowling
Green State University in December, after 38 years of
service to higher education, nearly 10 of those at BGSU.
He is credited with guiding BGSU’s doctoral program
in higher education administration from fledgling status
to among the top two programs in the country. Graduates
of the program serve in an impressive array of professional
positions across the country and around the world.
(Posted 12/4/00)
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