Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Dr. Nicholas Bowman (Zoom)

Title: University Rankings Systems and Their Effects on Admissions Indicators and Reputation

Nicholas A. Bowman is the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, senior research fellow in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His scholarship uses a social psychological lens to explore key topics in higher education, including student success, diversity and equity, rankings, admissions, and quantitative methodology. Bowman’s work has appeared (or is currently in press) in 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 25 book chapters, and nearly 150 peer-reviewed conference presentations. This research has been published in outlets such as Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Sociology of Education, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Science Advances. Bowman received the Promising Scholar/Early Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2012, and he was the University of Iowa Scholar of the Year in 2018.

Learn more about Dr. Bowman by visiting his webpage, view his Curriculum Vitae, and the Iowa University Public Policy Center.

Registration for Dr. Bowman’s talk is now open! Please click the link here to register!