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"A perennial issue for American higher education is to keep pace with knowledge change. Historically, the basic intellectual and organizational pattern has been additive - to add new academic specializations, programs and departments. While times of expansion have mitigated conflicting views over the relative worth of knowledge areas, times of fiscal constraint have spurred campuses to prioritize. Institutional imperatives for restructuring and selective investment redefine the academic landscape, as campuses consider what knowledge matters most, who should decide, and how should it be organized, supported, and taught."
- from a recent interview
Dr. Gumport's research addresses key changes in the academic landscape and organizational character of American higher education. Extending core concerns in the sociology of knowledge to the study of higher education, she studies how institutional practices and organizational contexts reshape the content, structure, practice, and relative legitimacy of academic fields. Her current research examines academic restructuring in public higher education. Through in-depth case studies, she shows how faculty and administrators respond to economic and political pressures, attempt to reconcile tensions between academic governance and management principles, and determine appropriate forms of support for new and long-existing fields. Dr. Gumport's expertise extends across a range of higher education issues: academic change, mission clarification, program review, faculty governance, graduate education, interdisciplinarity, public system redesign, and collaboration. |
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* PhD (Education) Stanford University, 1987
* MA (Sociology) Stanford University, 1986
* MA (Education) Stanford University, 1982
* BA (Philosophy) Colgate University, 1980 |
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| * Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of California - Los Angeles, and Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Higher Education (1987-1989) |
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* Faculty since 1989
* Professor of Education (2003- )
* Director, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (1995- )
* Chair, Division of Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice (2004-06)
* Vice Provost for Graduate Education (2007- ) |
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| * Academic restructuring; public higher education; academic collaboration |
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* Management and Planning in Higher Education (Ed 225)
* Curriculum in Higher Education (Ed 271)
* Research Seminar in Higher Education (Ed 346)
* Higher Education and Society (Ed 355X, Soc 355)
* Advanced Topics in Higher Education (Ed 384)
* Foundations of Case Study Research (Ed 418)
* Introduction to Research Design for Educational Administration and Policy Analysis (Ed 331A) |
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* Academic Legitimacy: Institutional Tensions in Restructuring Public Higher Education (forthcoming)
* Sociology of Higher Education (2007)
* "Higher Education: Evolving Forms, Emerging Markets" (2005)
* Toward the Development of Liberal Arts Indicators (2004)
* "Access to What? Mission Differentiation & Academic Stratification" (2003)
* "The Demand-Response Scenario: Perspectives of Community College Presidents" (2003)
* "Universities and Knowledge: Restructuring the City of Intellect" (2002)
* "The Formal Organization of Knowledge: An Analysis of Academic Structure" (2002)
* Academic Pathfinders: Knowledge Creation and Feminist Scholarship (2002)
* In Defense of American Higher Education (2001)
* "Built to Serve: The Enduring Legacy of Public Higher Education" (2001)
* "Academic Stratification and Endemic Conflict: Remedial Education Policy at CUNY" (2001)
* "Academic Restructuring: Organizational Change and Institutional Imperatives" (2000)
* "Learning Academic Labor" (2000)
* "Academic Governance: New Light on Old Issues" (2000)
* "University Restructuring: The Role of Economic and Political Contexts" (1999)
* American Higher Education in the 21st Century (1999)
* "Public Universities as Academic Workplaces" in Daedalus (1997) |
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* PI, Research on Academic Collaboration, Ford Foundation
* Advisor, Humanities & Culture Initiative, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
* Social Sciences at Risk Network, Ford Foundation
* Provost's Budget Group, Stanford
* Executive Committee, Stanford Chapter of AAUP
* Fellow, Stanford Leadership Academy |
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* Phone: (650) 723 7727
* Email: gumport@stanford.edu
* Home page: http://www.stanford.edu/~gumport/
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