Timothy Eatman
Assistant Professor
Higher Education
E-mail: tkeatman@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 350 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-8784
Timothy K. Eatman, Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director for Research - Imagining America (IA) holds the Ph. D. in Higher Education Policy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Syracuse University community in the fall of 2007 after a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education.
At Michigan, Tim began working with the IA Consortium, which was established there and is now headquartered at Syracuse University. IA, a national consortium of academic and community institutions designed to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts and design is involved in a national research and policy project called the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship under Tim’s direction. The research focuses on improving the rewards system in academe for faculty who practice engaged scholarship in the cultural disciplines. Working with a cadre of higher education leaders, the TTI seeks to develop a broad understanding of the university’s public mission and its impact on changing scholarly and creative practices in the cultural disciplines. In the current phase of this research Tim is working to developing a national report based upon the foregoing research including a set of structured interviews with members of the Tenure Team, twenty key higher education leaders.
In addition to his work with Imagining America and while still in Michigan, Tim also served as an associate professor of education at Spring Arbor University, teaching graduate courses in research methods for the social sciences, integrating technology into teaching and the social foundations of education. In addition he has worked as Associate Director for Research and Policy for the Academic Investment in Math and Science (AIMS) program at Bowling Green State University. This work emanates from Tim’s research interests in students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in higher education and the impact that their participation in research opportunity programs has on career trajectory. In this regard, he has a special research interest in students who aspire to careers in Science Math Engineering and Technology (SMET) disciplines and conducts research in this area. Eatman has published in various venues including the Journal of Educational Finance, Readings on Equal Education, and other book chapters and reports.
Tim holds the BS from Pace University, NY in Early Childhood Education and the M. Ed. in College Student Development from Howard University, WDC. His own scholarship in action is represented by several involvements including member of the Board of Directors - Mt. Pleasant Christian Academy, a K-12 non-profit, private academic institution founded by his family in New York in 1981. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Michigan Reach, a non profit mentoring effort in the Ann Arbor, MI community connecting university students to school aged children and community members. He is active in the American Educational Research Association, serving as a member of the Division G Affirmative Action Committee.