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Dr. Patricia M. KingProfessor,Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education University of Michigan 734-615-6740 2117 SEB; 610 E. University Ave Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 patking@umich.edu |
Patricia M. King is a Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on learning and development among late adolescents and adults, including college students. She is especially interested in approaches to student development that explore the intersections among developmental domains, such as intellectual, identity and social development, and how these affect collegiate outcomes ranging from citizenship to intercultural maturity to character development. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for the University of Michigan team for the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education. In addition to having published over 50 articles, she has written two books. In 1994, she and her colleague Karen Strohm Kitchener wrote Developing Reflective Judgment, which focuses on student intellectual development, and its relationship to development in other domains. In 2004, she joined Marcia Baxter Magolda in editing Learning Partnerships: Theories and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-Authorship. She is currently Principal Investigator of the University of Michigan team of the National Study of Liberal Arts Education sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. She served as the founding editor of About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience, a bi-monthly publication sponsored by the American College Personnel Association and published by Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers from 1995-2002. In addition to her faculty roles, she has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan from 2003-2006, as Assistant Vice President for Student Services at Ohio State University from 1979-81 and as Senior Research Psychologist at the University of Iowa from 1977-1981.