Faculty Vita

Don Hossler, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Other Administrative Responsibilities

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Books & Monographs:

Kinzie, J.; Hayek, J.; Palmer, M. Cummings, H. Jacob, S. & Hossler, D. (2002). Continuity and Change in College Choice. Indianapolis, IN: The Lumina Foundation.

Hossler, D., Schmit, J., & Vesper, N. (1998). Going to college: How social, economic, and educational factors influence the decisions students make. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Stage, F. K., Anaya, G., Bean, J., Hossler, D., & Kuh, G.D. (Eds.). (1995). ASHE reader on college students. Needham, MA: Ginn Press.

Chapters:

Hossler, D. (in press). From admissions to enrollment management. In A. Rentz (Eds.). Student affairs: A professional handbook (3rd Edition). Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas.

Hossler, D. & Hoezee, L. (2001). Conceptual and Theoretical Thinking About Enrollment Management. In J. Black (ed.), Strategic Enrollment Management. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Hossler, D. (2000). The role of financial aid and enrollment management. In M. Coomes, The role of financial aid in enrollment management. New directions in student affairs, No. 89. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Publishers.

Hossler, D. (2000). Effective admissions recruitment. In G. Gaither (Ed.), Promising practices in recruitment, remediation, & retention. New directions in institutional research, No. 108 San Francisco, No. 108,15-30. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Publishers.

Hossler, D., Liferov, A, & Kostikov, S. (1999). A case study of the effects of changes in resources on Ryazan State Pedagogical University. In P. Sabloff (Ed.), Higher education in the post-Communist world: Case studies of eight universities, 77-90. New York: Garland Press.

Articles:

Hossler, D. (2001,November/December). Everybody wants to be No. 1: A Look at College Rankings (Part 2). Indiana Alumni Magazine, 22-26.

Hossler, D. (2001, September/October). Everybody wants to be No. 1: A Look at College Rankings (Part 1). Indiana Alumni Magazine, 26-29.

Hossler, D., Kuh, G.D, & Olsen, D. (2001). Finding fruit on the vines: Using higher education research and institutional research to guide institutional policies and strategies (Part I & II). Research in Higher Education, 42, 223-235

Hossler, D. Hu, S., Schmit, J. (1999, Winter). Predicting student sensitivity to tuition and financial aid. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 28(4), 17-33

Shouping, H., & Hossler, D. (2000). Willingness to pay and preferences for private institutions . Research in Higher Education, 41(6), 685-701.

Hossler, D. (March-April, 2000). The problem with college rankings. About Campus, 20-21.

Funded Projects

Contract with the Midwest Region of The College Board to edit quarterly publication, Enrollment Management Review. 1986 present, $4,500 annually.

Lumina Foundation, Study of Continuity and Change in College Choice: 1950 to the Present., 2001-2002, $55,000.

Junior Faculty Development Program, USIA Funded Host/Study Program for two Russian Scholars, 1998-99, $25,000.

Junior Faculty Development Program, USIA Funded Host/Study Program for five Russian Scholars, 1994-95, $65,000.

Research Associate, USIA Funded Partnership Between Indiana University School of Education and Ryazan State Pedagogical University, Russia. Spent 2.5 months conducting case study of higher education reform in Russia, Estimated value of my activities $40,000.

Dean of Faculty Grant, Indiana University, internal grant, Colloquia Series: The Future of the Research University, $6,000. (organizer).

A Study of the Policy Formulation Process in the Federal Government: Tracking the Reauthorization of the 1992 Higher Education Act. Proffitt Grant, 1991-92, $9,730.

An investigation of the postsecondary plans and aspirations of Indiana high school students. Lilly Grant, 1988-1991, $150,000. (co-principal investigator). Extension, $18,000, 1991-92.

A case study of the implementation of responsibility center budgeting at a state research university. Proffitt Grant, 1988-89, $8,720. (co-principal investigator).

A comparison of the postsecondary attitudes and aspirations of Indiana ninth grade students and their parents: Years 1987 and 1988. Sponsored by the Indiana College Placement and Assessment Center. Summer, 1988, $7,000. (co principal investigator).

A follow-up study of the postsecondary plans of the pilot study group of Indiana ninth grade students and their parents. Grant funded by the Indiana College Placement and Assessment Center. 1988, $8,400. (co-principal investigator).

Analysis of relationship between parental attitudes and postsecondary plans of Indiana ninth grade students. Sponsored by the Indiana College Placement and Assessment Center. Summer, 1987, $5,000. (co principal investigator).

The effects of distinction and intention on organizational effectiveness. Proffitt Grant, 1986 87, $8,500. (principal investigator).

Burroughs Corporation Grant to develop a piece of software to guide high school students in the college selection process, Summer and Fall 1986, $10,000. (co principal investigator).

The outcomes of doctoral education at Loyola University of Chicago. Institutional Funding, 1984 present, $16,000. (co principal investigator).

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American College Personnel Association

American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

American Association of Higher Education

American Education Research Association Division J

Association for the Study of Higher Education

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

The College Board

Conference Presentations

(*denotes refereed papers):

* Changing Patterns for Higher Education Finance: State Funding and Budget Incentives at Research Universities. Presented at the American Educational Research Association, April, 2002, New Orleans, LA. (co-presenter).

The Effects of Unmet Need on College Access. Meeting of the Congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. March 7, 2000, The University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas

College admissions: Operations and Management. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers, April, 2001, Seattle, WA. (invited co-presenter)

*The SEM odyssey: Financial aid leveraging at public universities. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers, April, 2001, Seattle, WA. (co-presenter)

Student affairs scholarship considered: Connecting Research and Practice Part II. Annual Meeting of the American College Personnel Association, March, 2001, Boston, MA.

The ABC’s of strategic enrollment management. American Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers 11th Annual Conference on Strategic Enrollment Management , November, 2000, Scottsdale, AZ. (co-presenter)

Enrollment management in the new millennium. Invited keynote presentation. Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, October, 2000, Louisville, KY.

Why students pick the colleges they do. Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, October, 2000, Louisville, KY.

Continuity and change in college choice. Invited keynote presentation, Annual Forum of the USA Group Foundation. September, 2000, Tucson, AZ.

Budgeting for enrollment decisions. Invitational presentation at a conference, Tuition Discounting in an Enrollment Management Context, sponsored by the National Association of Collegiate Business Officers, May, 2000, Boston, MA. (co-presenter).

*Unraveling the complexity of the college choice process: A typology of student decision making. Presented at the American Educational Research Association, April, 2000, New Orleans, LA. (co-presenter).

Can we talk? Facilitator for program session at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. April, 2000, New Orleans, LA.

Using educationally-relevant geodemography to predict college enrollments. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, September, 1999, Orlando, FL. (co-presenter).

How a shift to an enrollment services might work for you. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, September, 1999, Orlando, FL. (co-presenter).

Paying for college: The willing, the able, both or neither. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, September, 1999, Orlando, FL. (co-presenter).

Linking enrollment information with campus planning: Making your voice heard. Presented at the ACT Enrollment Planners Conference, July, 1999, Chicago, IL. (invited presentation).

Faculty/Presenter at the College Board Asilomar Institute on Enrollment Management, May, 1999, Asilomar, CA. (invited presentations).

Service/Outreach Projects

Invited participant in The College Board’s Conferences on Best Practices in Admissions, October, 2000 in Toronto, Canada & August of 2002 in Vancouver, Canada.

Invited testimony before the National Commission of Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education. September 12, 1991. Evanston, IL.

External Blind Reviewer for Tenure and/or Promotion Cases for faculty at following institutions: University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, Oklahoma State University, University of New Orleans, University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and the State University of New York at Albany.

University Service

Indiana University:

Co-Chair, University Student Information Steering Committee 1999-present

Committee on Institutional Data 2000-present

SIS Integration Advisory Committee 2000-present

IT Advisory Committee 2000-present

Member, Bloomington Academic Advisory Committee 1999-present

Member, UITS Task Force on Student Information Systems 1997-1998

Member, Search Committee for Dean of University Division 1997-1998

Member, UITS AVP Search Committee 1998

Chair, Search Committee for the Director of Admissions, IUB 1996-1997

Chair, Search Committee for the Director of Professional 1996-1997

Development and Summer School, School of Education Chair, Committee for Study Abroad Grants 1996-1997

Member, Campus Curriculum Committee 1996-1997

Member, Campus Assessment Committee 1996-1997

Member, RUGS Review Committee on Recruitment and 1996-1997

Programs for Minority Graduate Students Member, Campus Retention Committee 1996-1997

Co-Chair, University Budgetary Affairs Committee, 1995-1996 8 IU campuses

Co-Chair, Budgetary Affairs Committee, IUB 1994-1996

Member, Budgetary Affairs Committee, IUB 1993-1996

Chair, Search Committee for assistant professor, HESA Program 1994-1995

Honors/Awards

Claremont Graduate University Alumni Hall of Fame, 2001

Elected to the Higher Education Colloquium, 2001

Elected to the Senior Scholars of the American College Personnel Association, 1998.

1998 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

1998 Region IV-E Award for Service Through Teaching, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Sally Casanova Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Claremont Graduate School, 1996.

Distinguished Alumni Award, California Lutheran University, 1993.