Victor M. H. Borden
Victor (Vic) M. H. Borden, Ph.D. is Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the Project Director for the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and senior advisor to the Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs. Previously, Dr. Borden served as the Associate Vice President for University Planning, Institutional Research and Accountability at Indiana University (2005-2010), and in senior institutional research positions at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI, 1992-2005), George Mason University (1987-1992), and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1984-1987).
Dr. Borden's general area of scholarship is on the assessment of organizational and performance within higher education institutions. Within this general area, he has pursued four themes: student progress and performance; organizational performance assessment and accountability; diversity and equity within higher education; and organizational learning and development as a framework for institutional research. Dr. Borden has published over 100 articles and book chapters, secured over $1 million in research grants and contracts, consulted with over 20 institutions and organizations, internationally, served on more than a dozen national and regional research advisory panels, delivered over 40 workshops and seminars and delivered more than 150 keynote, peer-reviewed and invited presentations throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Dr. Borden was a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa and is an active contributor to several professional associations, most notably, the Association for Institutional Research, of which he is a Past President.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Close Relationships
- Group Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Organizational Behavior
- Research Methods, Assessment
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Borden, V. M. H. & Coates, H. (2017). Learning analytics as a counterpart to surveys of student experience. In J. Zilvinskis & V.M.H. Borden (Eds.). Learning analytics in higher education. New Directions for Higher Education, No. 179 (89-102). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Borden, V. M. H. (2014). Anything but simple: Inappropriate use of Euclidean distance in Govinger at al. (2013). Commentary in South African Journal of Science, 110(5/6), 4pp.
- Guarino, C. M., & Borden, V. M. H. (2017). Faculty service loads and gender: Are women taking care of the academic family? Research in Higher Education, 58, 672-694.
- Lin, C-H. & Borden, V. M. H. (2016). Learning from U.S. research on the impact of financial aid on college student outcomes to advance institutional research in Taiwan. Contemporary Education Research Quarterly, 24(4), 9-31.
- Shaker, G. G., Borden, V. M. H., & Keinker, B. L. (2016). Workplace giving in universities: A U.S. case study at Indiana University. Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(1), 1-25.
- Zilvinkis, J., Borden, V. M. H., & Severtis, Jr., R. (2017). Employing a quasi-experimental technique to measure the effects of conditional admissions. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1521025117728027
- Zilvinskis, J. & Borden, V. M. H. (Eds.) (2017). Learning analytics in higher education. New Directions for Higher Education, No. 179. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Other Publications:
- Borden, V. M. H. & Hosch, B. J. (2018). Institutional Research and Themes, North America. In J.C. Shin, P. Teixeira (eds.), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_586-1
- Borden, V. M. H. (2018). The need for and value of scholarship in institutional research. In K. Webber (ed.), Building Capacity in Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education. Singapore: Springer.
- Borden, V. M. H., Coates, H., & Bringle, R. (2018). Classifying higher education institutions: Past, present and future trends. In E. Hazelkorn, H. Coates, & A. C. McCormick, Eds. Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
- McCormick, A. C. and Borden, V. M. H. (2017). Higher education institutions, types and classifications of. In J.C. Shin, P. Teixeira (eds.), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_22-1
Courses Taught:
- Capstone in Institutional Research
- Foundations of Institutional Research
- Institutional Research Tools, Technologies, and Methodologie
- Social Psychology
- Statistics
Victor M. H. Borden
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
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