Michael Harris – Why Businesses Should Work Like a University – TEDxSMU Spring 2014
Michael S. Harris is an associate professor of higher education and director of the higher education program. His scholarly interests are in public policy and the organization of public higher education. He is currently exploring the issue of institutional diversity and the interplay between market forces, government involvement, and higher education. Harris published a monograph on the subject entitled, “Understanding Institutional Diversity in American Higher Education.”
His work has been published in the Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Innovative Higher Education, Planning for Higher Education, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Trusteeship, and reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Harris currently serves as a Member-at-large of Division J (Postsecondary) within the American Educational Research Association. He serves on the advisory board of the ASHE monograph series and reviews for the Journal of Higher Education, Routledge, Innovative Higher Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, International Journal of Management in Education, and other leading journals as well as the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).
He holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina in American History, a M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in higher education administration. In 2004, he received the AERA Division J Dissertation of the Year award.