GSE Professor Receives NASPA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research

January 22, 2010 - The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) has named Penn GSE Assistant Professor Shaun Harper recipient of its 2010 Outstanding Contribution to Research Award.

The award is given to scholars who have demonstrated professional commitment to student affairs administration and whose research has proven valuable to student affairs practitioners at the national level.

Harper’s expertise focuses on issues of Black male college achievement, campus racial climates, and student engagement in higher education. His National Black Male College Achievement Study represents the largest-ever research study on Black male undergraduates. The author of six books, he recently published College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice (Jossey-Bass).

Before joining the faculty at Penn GSE, Harper served in professorships and administrative capacities at Penn State University, Indiana University, and the University of Southern California, where he served as an assistant professor and executive director of the Doctor of Education Program. In 2008, he was awarded the Early Career Award by The Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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