Meet Dr. Betty J. Harper
Senior Analyst and Director for Student Affairs Research & Assessment
 Betty Harper became the director of Student Affairs Research and Assessment in December 2009. Prior to assuming this role, Betty worked in Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education as the Senior Project Associate under Project Directors Lisa R. Lattuca and Patrick T. Terenzini on two NSF-funded studies of engineering education: Prototype to Production and Prototyping the Engineer of 2020. She also worked with colleagues Lisa Lattuca, Patrick Terenzini, and J. Fredericks Volkwein on the Engineering Change study, a national study of the impact of engineering accreditation standards on student learning and engineering programs. Betty was also a Project Associate for Rankin and Associates Consulting, participating in studies of campus diversity climate at institutions across the country. Prior to working in assessment, Betty served as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in Penn State's School of Forest Resources, where she coordinated advising for undergraduate students in three majors.
Betty completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education at Penn State with a minor in Educational Psychology and graduate certificate in Institutional Research in May 2008. Betty's dissertation explored the impact of continuous improvement activities on faculty culture and student learning. She was the recipient of graduate fellowships from both the Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality and the Association for Institutional Research. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Betty received her B.S. in Natural Resources Conservation and an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Florida.
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