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ELI Web Seminar, January 17, 2006 2:00 p.m. EST (1:00 p.m. CST, 12:00 p.m. MST, 11:00 a.m. PST); runs one hour Forests and Trees: Rethinking What Influences Student LearningSpecial Guest
Pat Terenzini is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He coauthored How College Affects Students, an award-winning synthesis of thirty years of research on the impacts of the college experience on students. The first volume was selected as "one of the 100 most important and influential books about U.S. colleges and universities published in the 20th century." His research examines the effects of college on student learning and development; persistence and educational attainment; and the college experience and outcomes for low-income and first-generation students. He is a former editor-in-chief of New Directions for Institutional Research, associate editor of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, and editorial board member for The Review of Higher Education. He has been a consulting editor for Research in Higher Education for more than twenty years. He is also a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
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