Dr. Fairweather is Professor, Higher, Adult and Lifelong
Education, Michigan State University. Prior to coming to
MSU he was Professor and Senior Scientist at the Center
for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State University,
and a Program Manager in Education and Human Services at
SRI International. Dr. Fairweather received the B.A. (with
great distinction) from Justin Morrill College, Michigan
State University and the Ph.D. in Higher Education from
Stanford University. He is widely acknowledged as a leading
scholar of faculty work, industry-university partnerships,
and reforming undergraduate engineering education. Among
his many publications are
Faculty Work and Public Trust, a national study of faculty
rewards and strategies to improve teaching and learning,
and Entrepreneurship and Higher Education, a monograph describing
the various types and effects of industry-university partnerships.
He has published in the leading journals in the field, including
The Journal of Higher Education,
Review of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education,
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Economics of
Education Review, and the Journal of Engineering Education.
Dr. Fairweather has been principal or co-principal investigator
on grants funded by the National Science Foundation, the
U.S. Department of Education, the GE Fund, IBM Corporation,
and many others. Most recently he helped lead a four-year
study of the effects of state policy on college teaching
and learning funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Currently he is co-PI of a GE Fund grant to study reform
in undergraduate engineering service courses. Dr. Fairweather
currently serves as chair of the editorial board of The
Journal of Higher Education.