Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Higher Education
Associate Vice Provost Emeritus, Undergraduate Education, and
Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Business Analysis
The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Melander currently serves as a Faculty Affiliate, Center for Study of Higher Education in the College of Education. As a senior academic administrator, Dr. Melander's responsibilities extended to strategic planning, curriculum and enrollment management, academic assessment, and academic and administrative information systems. His continuing scholarly interests include: strategies to bridge academic organizational theory/practice gaps; organizational communications and learning in higher education, information and communication systems in support of teaching and learning, collaboration in curricular and co-curricular programming, developing an advising curriculum, and internationalizing the curriculum. As a faculty associate in the CSHE, he participates in research and analysis projects and provides consultation services with on- and off-campus agencies. Dr. Melander received a B.B.A. in General Business in 1953, an M.A. in Economics in 1960, and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1966, all from the University of Minnesota.
Recent publications:
· "Advising as Educating: A Framework for Organizing Advising Systems," accepted for publication by the NACADA Journal, Fall 2005 , National Academic Advising Association, Kansas State University, Manhattan, K.S. 66502
· "The Meaning of "Student-Centered" Advising: Challenges to the Advising Learning Community ," Mentor, October, 2002, published by Penn State's Center for Excellence in Academic Advising , http://www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/
· "Educating the Practitioner: Strategies for focusing on the Student in the Undergraduate Business Curriculum," in Beyond Teaching to Mentoring , Alice G. Reinarz and Eric White, editors, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 85, Spring 2001, Jossey-Bass.
Recent presentations:
* "Advising as Educating: Models Guiding Advising Practice," jointly with Peter Hagen, DUS Annual Conference on Academic Advising , Penn Stater Conference Center, September 29, 2005
· "Learning-Centered Advising in a Student-Centered University: The Challenges," DUS Annual Conference on Academic Advising , Penn Stater Conference Center, September 30, 2005
· DUS Conference: Academic Advising at the Speed of Light " Panel Discussion--"Deciding what parts of adviser/advisee relationship must be realized in a face-to-face context and what can be fulfilled in a technology-mediated environment?" Penn Stater Conference Center, Sept 12, 2002
· "Mapping Institutional Learning Goals onto Co-curricular Planning and Programming: A Strategy for Promoting Collaborative Academic and Student Affairs Assessments," in collaboration with Dr. Arthur W. Carter at the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) 2002 Assessment Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 19-23, 2002.
· "The Student Learning Imperative in the Context of the New Learning Ecology," as part of a panel presentation on "Examining the Impact of The Student Learning Imperative on the Field of Student Affairs: Student Learning and Assessment Track, Panelists: M. Lee Upcraft, Gene Melander, and John Saddlemire, From Theory to Practice: An Anniversary Symposium , Center for the Study of Higher Education, Penn Stater Conference Center, June 23 and 24, 2000.
Recent Consulting Report (Unpublished)
• Commonwealth College Communications Project: Interim Report, June 19, 2001
Recent Consulting Assignments
• Project Associate, Commonwealth College, Penn State University
• Faculty Fellow, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University
• Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State University
• Building Techne Consortium, Penn State University
• Scholarship Selection Service, Box 747, Moravia, N.Y. 13118
Current Project Areas
• Conceptual Bases for Advising Systems
• Using Information and Communication Technologies in the Delivery of Advising and Mentoring Programs
• Communications within and among Communities of Practice in Higher Education
Personal Web Site
http://www.personal.psu.edu/e/r/erm1
e-mail:
erm1@psu.edu