Director: Daniel C. Levy

PROPHE Collaborating Scholar
Kevin Kinser
(USA)

Kevin Kinser, Ed.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. He received two master’s degrees and a doctorate from Columbia University’s Teachers College and has taught in the higher education programs at Teachers College and Louisiana State University. Before his doctoral studies, Kinser worked in student affairs at Beloit College and Columbia University, serving as an administrator of student activities and student union operations. As a researcher, Kinser studies non-traditional and alternative higher education, particularly the organization and administration of for-profit and virtual universities, and the various ways in which institutions of higher education choose to serve and support students. As a teacher, Kinser conducts courses which focus on students and student affairs, higher education administration, and the history and philosophy of higher education. His research has been published in the Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, Student Affairs On-Line, and Innovative Higher Education, and he has regularly presented papers at meetings of the American Educational Research Association and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Currently he is co-editing Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia, a comprehensive two-volume overview of American postsecondary education since World War II.

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