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:: Department of Leadership in Education

Carol Colbeck

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Stanford University, Ph.D.

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Email: Carol.Colbeck@umb.edu

Carol L. Colbeck is Dean of the Graduate College of Education (GCE) and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  Dr. Colbeck's research investigates how social and organizational contexts shape academic work in four interrelated areas: (1) how faculty integrate teaching, research, and service; (2) how state, institutional, and departmental policies influence the nature and characteristics of faculty work; (3) how faculty teaching and organizational climate affect student learning; and (4) how faculty balance professional and personal responsibilities.  Dr. Colbeck has been Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator of projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Education, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the US Marine Corps.  Prior to becoming Dean of the GCE at UMass Boston, Dr. Colbeck was Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) at the Pennsylvania State University.  Dr. Colbeck's degrees are all from Stanford University, including a BA in English (with distinction), an MA in Sociology, and a Ph.D. in Education with a focus on Administration and Policy Analysis.

 

Publications

Refereed articles

Colbeck, C. L., & Drago, R. (2005).  Accept, avoid, resist: Faculty members’ responses
  to bias against caregiving…and how departments can help.  Change, 37(6), 10-17.

Colbeck, C. L.  (2002). Assessing institutionalization of curricular and pedagogical reform.  Research

  in Higher Education, 43(4), 397-421.
Colbeck, C. L.  (2002). State policies to improve undergraduate teaching: Administrator
  and faculty responses.  Journal of Higher Education, 73(1), 3-25.
Colbeck, C. L., Cabrera, A. F., & Terenzini, P. T.  (2001). Learning professional
  confidence: Linking teaching practices to gains in college students’ academic and career self-perceptions.  Review of Higher Education, 24(3), 173-191.
Colbeck, C. L., Campbell, S. C., & Bjorklund, S. A.  (2000). Grouping in the dark: What
  college students learn from group projects.  Journal of Higher Education, 71, 60-83.
Colbeck, C. L.  (1998). Merging in a seamless blend: How faculty integrate teaching and
 

research.  Journal of Higher Education, 69(6), 647-671.

Massy, W. F., Wilger, A. K., & Colbeck, C. L.  (1994). Overcoming ‘hollowed’ collegiality. 
  Change, 26(4), 10-20.
 

Edited Books

 
Colbeck, C. L., O’Meara, K.A., & Austin, A. E. (Eds.) (2008).  Educating integrated professionals: 
  Theory and practice on preparation for the professoriate.  New Directions for Teaching and Learning  No. 113.  San Francisco:  Jossey Bass.
Geiger, R.L., C.L. Colbeck, R.L. Williams, & C.K. Anderson (Eds.) (2007). The Future of the
  American Public Research University. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.
Colbeck, C. L.  (Ed.) (2002).  Evaluating faculty performance.  New Directions for Institutional
  Research, No. 114.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.