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Co-Principal Investigators
Richard P. Chait and Cathy A. Trower
Trower and Chait, co-principal investigators for COACHE (formerly the Study of New Scholars), have well-established national reputations as experts on faculty work life. Separately or together, they have published dozens of articles, chapters, and books on the topic.
Richard Chait (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin), Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studies the management and governance of colleges and universities. Chait has expertise on terms and conditions of faculty employment, including promotion and tenure procedures, academic freedom, and faculty evaluation. He also studies the roles, responsibilities, and performance of boards of trustees, and has written on faculty work life. For over 20 years, Chait has taught in HGSE's summer institute programs for executives in higher education. He has been a professor at the University of Maryland and at Case Western Reserve University, and was formerly associate provost at Pennsylvania State University. In 2001, Chait was selected by the Fulbright New Zealand Board of Directors as a Fulbright U.S. Distinguished American Scholar. In 2005, Chait received the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Academic Leadership Award and a Research Writing Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). His recent books include Governance as Leadership (with W. Ryan and B. Taylor) (2004) and The Questions of Tenure, ed. (2002).
Cathy Trower (M.B.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Maryland) has published numerous articles and several book chapters about faculty work life, and edited a book entitled Policies on Faculty Appointment: Standard Practice and Unusual Arrangements (2000). Prior to coming to Harvard, Cathy was a senior level administrator of business degree programs, and an adjunct faculty member, at Johns Hopkins University.
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Richard P. Chait
Cathy A. Trower
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Assistant Director
Kiernan Mathews, Ed.M.
Kiernan Mathews has engaged in work primarily in the policies and processes of colleges and universities during periods of significant organizational change. He has conducted research for the Harvard College Curriculum Review, has assisted former Harvard President Derek Bok on Our Underachieving Colleges, and has authored case studies on faculty resource allocation and curricular transformation. Prior to coming to Harvard, Kiernan was the Project Manager for many new technology initiatives at Routledge Publishing and The LEGO Company. He holds a B.A. in Classical Studies with a minor in English from the Honors College of the University of Houston and an Ed.M. from Harvard.
Assistant Director
Anne Sargent Gallagher, Ed.M.
Prior to joining the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, Anne worked as a project analyst, and more recently, as a communications specialist, for the Boston-based law firm of Mintz Levin. She holds a B.A. in English from Boston College and an Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard.
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