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Michael T. Miller(b. Omaha, NE) is a professor of higher education and Dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, studying under Alan T. Seagren, and he earned his BA in political science and MS in higher education from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research has predominantly been in the area of faculty involvement in higher education governance. He is the author of Improving Faculty Governance, and edited the book series on shared governance in higher education including Student Governance and Institutional Policy, Policy and University Faculty Governance, and Staff Governance and Institutional Policy Formation. He recently published Case Studies in Higher Education Fundraising with former UA Chancellor G. David Gearhart.

Career

After graduating from Southern Illinois University, Miller worked in annual giving for the SIU Foundation, attending graduate school on a part-time basis. He earned his doctoral degree from Nebraska, where he then worked as an Assistant Professor of Adult and Vocational Education from 1991-1994, before joining the faculty at the University of Alabama, where he was the doctoral advisor of James Hood, the civil rights activist who integrated the University in 1963. Several of his students have also gone on to serve in high level administrative positions, including Dr. Steve Vacik and Dr. Phillip Wilson. In 1999 he assumed the role of Associate Dean of the College of Education at San Jose State University, and in 2003 joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas. At Arkansas he served as a department chair and associate dean before being named dean. Active in several professional associations, he has also served as editor of the Journal of College Orientation and Transition, Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership, and the Journal of Research in Education.

In 2017 he was selected as a juror for the Brock International Prize in Education and in 2015 he was awarded the Council for the Study of Community College's Senior Scholar Award.

Personal

Miller is married to Lara (nee Anderson) Miller, and they have three children. His parents lived and worked overseas, spending nearly 20 years at the American University in Cairo.

Biography (Books)

Case Studies in Higher Education Fundraising

Student Activism as a Vehicle for Change on College Campuses

Staff Governance and Institutional Policy Formation

College Student Athletes Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications

Training Higher Education Policy Makers and Leaders

Student Governance and Institutional Policy

The College Transfer Student in America, The Forgotten Student

Policy and University Faculty Governance

Improving Faculty Governance, Cultivating Leadership and Collaboration in Decision Making

Responsive Academic Decision Making

International Dimensions to Higher Education Administration