University of Phoenix Forms National Research Center and Names Advisory Board Charter Members
Business Wire
May 05, 03:19 PM EST
University of Phoenix today announced the formation of a research unit, the University of Phoenix National Research Center (NRC), to drive continued significant and innovative research initiatives in teaching and learning among adult students in higher education. ||The NRC will be directed by scholar Jorge Klor de Alva, J.D., Ph.D., the university's Senior Vice President for Academic Excellence, and an Advisory Board whose charter members include: Chair David W. Breneman, University Professor and Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education, and Director of the BA/MPP program in Public Policy at the University of Virginia; Carol B. Aslanian, President of adult student market research firm the Aslanian Group and former long-time Director of the Office of Adult Learning Services at the College Board in New York; and Patrick M. Callan, founding President of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.||"Their combined expertise in adult learning and higher education accountability, public policy, economics and financing will be critical to our research agenda and invaluable to the institution as we continue to pioneer higher education for the nontraditional students we serve."