Higher education policy and reform
Missions and markets of higher education
College choice

 

Dr. Zemsky was the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania ’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. The research for which he is best known has centered on how colleges and universities, in a world increasingly dominated by market forces, can be both mission-centered and market-smart. His writings have regularly appeared in Policy Perspectives and in a series of pioneering articles and analyses in Change. Within the University of Pennsylvania , Dr. Zemsky has served as the University’s chief planning officer and as master of Hill College House. He currently serves as chair of The Learning Alliance for Higher Education, a major experiment in bringing just-in-time strategic expertise to college and university presidents. In 1998, Change named him as one of higher education’s top 40 leaders for his role as an agenda-setter. He is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He was a postdoctoral Social Science Research Council Fellow in Linguistics and was later chair of that Council’s Committee on Social Science Personnel. In 1998, he received a Doctor of Humane Letters (Hon.) from Towson University .