Jean Henscheid

Jean Henscheid, PhD, teaches for Educational Leadership and Policy and University Studies at Portland State University (PSU) and works on special projects related to enhancing the undergraduate experience for Student Affairs and the Center for Academic Excellence. She also does national work as executive editor of the Jossey-Bass/American College Personnel Association publication About Campus, and is a fellow with the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

Prior to accepting her position at PSU, Dr. Henscheid served as director of the Core Curriculum at the University of Idaho. She has authored and edited monographs, book chapters, and articles on various topics related to the college student experience and conducts workshops across the U.S. and abroad with a primary focus on learning communities, general education, curriculum design, and learning assessment. From 2007 through July 2011 she served as editor of the Journal of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Her book, co-authored with Jennifer Keup, Crafting and Conducting Research on Student Transitions, was published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition in fall 2011.

Her administrative and teaching experiences also include leading learning community programs and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership and research methods at Washington State University, serving as associate director for research and publications for the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina, and teaching interdisciplinary gender studies courses in the University of Idaho Core Curriculum.