The Association for Institutional Research recently announced an ISU professor has been named a Fellow for the Summer 2000 Institute on the National Center for Education Statistics Databases.

As part of his fellowship, John Schuh, professor and chairman of educational leadership and policy studies, will spend June 12-16 in Gaithersburg, Md., at a workshop.

The workshop is sponsored by NCES, which Schuh said is the center for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States.

“The national center for educational statistics is part of the Department of Education,” he said. “They develop reports on education in the United States and manage large databases containing educational information. The reports they issue are available to anyone who wants to go to the Web site.”

Schuh said he will be working with people from across the United States and possibly from other countries at the workshop.

“The workshop is a time for people from colleges and universities around the country to spend time learning to manage databases and to use the information in them,” he said.

Schuh said he had to apply for the fellowship position.

“I had to file an application with the Association for Institutional Research, which is a co-sponsor with NCES,” he said. “I was selected by AIR to participate.”

Larry Ebbers, associate dean of educational leadership and policy studies, said Schuh’s honor will likely bring positive attention to Iowa State.

“John will have the opportunity to connect with people who have completed the fellowship and also other scholars. He will also gain additional knowledge of educational research and analyzing it, and there could also be some grant opportunities,” he said.

Schuh said he is excited to attend the workshop and gain new information.

“This is a terrific opportunity to learn more about managing large databases and is in an area of interest to me,” he said. “I’m very interested in doing research in higher education and finance. I hope to be able to use more databases as a result of this to answer some questions that I have. I’m also very excited to work with the people who will be at the workshop.”

Ebbers said faculty members were also very pleased Schuh was selected as a fellow.

“We’re very excited about it. It is an indication of John’s stature with in the academic community and at Iowa State,” he said.