Michael J. Dooris

Executive Director, Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment

Affiliate Associate Professor of Higher Education

The Pennsylvania State University

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Provost, I support university-level planning and decision-making through leadership of the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment. I’ve been at Penn State since 1981 in a variety of positions, including in the university budget office and in undergraduate education. Previously, I worked as a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau and in industry. I’m an affiliate associate professor in Penn State’s higher education graduate program. I’ve consulted on strategic planning and institutional research in Europe, Africa, and the United States and was a CIC Academic Leadership Fellow in 1997-98. In 2010 I completed a Fulbright fellowship in Brazil. I have a Ph.D. in higher education from Penn State, an M.B.A from the University of Rhode Island, and a B.S. in economics from Penn State.

Bio (pdf)

Draft chapter : Dooris & Rackoff in Handbook for Institutional Research, Jossey Bass (forthcoming), Institutional Planning and Resource Management

University of Brasilia : December 2010 strategic planning presentation (large pdf file)

UnB write-up : my plenary session presentation (in Portuguese)

Interview:  Dec 2010, at the University of Brasilia (in Portuguese)

Syllabus – draft syllabus for Higher Ed 597B, Planning, Budgeting, and Resource Management, Summer 2011