EPI Faculty

Jonathan D. Fife

Position

Visiting Professor and Research Scholar
Educational Policy Institute.
213 River Pointe, Radford, VA 24141
(540) 633-6662

Email - jdfife@bellatlantic.net

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Fife earned his B.B.A. at the University of Massachusetts, his M.S. in Student Personnel Administration at SUNY at Albany and his Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration at Penn State University, where he graduated as a member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. From 1972 he rose through the ranks at The George Washington University here he held the positions for fourteen years as professor of higher education administration and director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. As part of his responsibilities Dr. Fife served as the series editor of the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, which annually sold more than 30,000 publications. From 1978-87 Dr. Fife also served as the Secretary-Treasurer (COO) of the Association for Study of Higher Education. For the last seven years Dr. Fife has dedicated an increasing amount of his time to the writing and research of the quality principles and has served as an evaluator, senior evaluator, and senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program. He is a co-author of the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, A Culture for Academic Excellence: Implementing the Quality Principles in Higher Education (Vol. 25, No. 1, 1997) and the Virginia Issues and Answers article "Defining and Ensuring Quality in Virginia Higher Education" (Spring 1999). In recognition of his contributions to education Dr. Fife has been listed in Who's Who in America for the last ten years and was the recipient of the 1998 Excellence in Education Award, the highest honor to be bestowed on a Penn State School of Education Alumni.

Policy
Interests

Dr. Fife's primary research focus is on the implementation of the quality principles in the academic and administrative activities of education. He is currently establishing an applied research center that will focus on: (1) increasing awareness of the importance of quality principles in the day-to-day activities of an education activity, (2) teaching skills necessary to put quality principles into practice, and (3) continuous research on how the quality principles affect education and identification of what inhibits and what fosters the quality principles.

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Position	Visiting Professor and Research Scholar Educational Policy Institute. 213 River Pointe, Radford, VA 24141 (540) 633-6662 Email - jdfife@bellatlantic.net
Biographical Sketch	Dr. Fife earned his B.B.A. at the University of Massachusetts, his M.S. in Student Personnel Administration at SUNY at Albany and his Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration at Penn State University, where he graduated as a member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. From 1972 he rose through the ranks at The George Washington University here he held the positions for fourteen years as professor of higher education administration and director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. As part of his responsibilities Dr. Fife served as the series editor of the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, which annually sold more than 30,000 publications. From 1978-87 Dr. Fife also served as the Secretary-Treasurer (COO) of the Association for Study of Higher Education. For the last seven years Dr. Fife has dedicated an increasing amount of his time to the writing and research of the quality principles and has served as an evaluator, senior evaluator, and senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program. He is a co-author of the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, A Culture for Academic Excellence: Implementing the Quality Principles in Higher Education (Vol. 25, No. 1, 1997) and the Virginia Issues and Answers article "Defining and Ensuring Quality in Virginia Higher Education" (Spring 1999). In recognition of his contributions to education Dr. Fife has been listed in Who's Who in America for the last ten years and was the recipient of the 1998 Excellence in Education Award, the highest honor to be bestowed on a Penn State School of Education Alumni.
Policy Interests	Dr. Fife's primary research focus is on the implementation of the quality principles in the academic and administrative activities of education. He is currently establishing an applied research center that will focus on: (1) increasing awareness of the importance of quality principles in the day-to-day activities of an education activity, (2) teaching skills necessary to put quality principles into practice, and (3) continuous research on how the quality principles affect education and identification of what inhibits and what fosters the quality principles.