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Barrett J. Taylor

Title: Professor

Department: Counseling and Higher Education

College: College of Education

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Georgia, 2012
    Major: Higher Education
  • MA, University of Alabama, 2007
    Major: Higher Education Administration
  • BA, Southwestern University, 1998
    Major: History: Religion

Current Scheduled Teaching

EDHE 6720.001Academic Administration in Higher EducationSpring 2025
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
EDHE 6900.406Special ProblemsSpring 2025

Previous Scheduled Teaching

EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2024 SPOT
EDHE 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2024
EDHE 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W2 2024
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2024 SPOT
EDHE 6900.706Special ProblemsSpring 2024
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2023 SPOT
EDHE 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2023
EDHE 6900.705Special ProblemsFall 2023
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2023 SPOT
EDHE 6900.706Special ProblemsSpring 2023
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2022 SPOT
EDHE 6900.705Special ProblemsFall 2022
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2022 SPOT
EDHE 6900.706Special ProblemsSpring 2022
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2021 SPOT
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2021
EDHE 6950.706Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2021
EDHE 6900.001Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2021
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2021 SPOT
EDHE 6900.700Special ProblemsSpring 2021
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
EDHE 6900.707Special ProblemsFall 2020
EDHE 6900.710Special ProblemsFall 2020
EDHE 6900.700Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2020
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2020
EDHE 6900.700Special ProblemsSpring 2020
EDHE 6900.706Special ProblemsSpring 2020
EDHE 6850.002Studies in Higher/Adult EducationSpring 2020
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
EDHE 6900.710Special ProblemsFall 2019
EDHE 6950.706Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2019
EDHE 6900.700Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2019
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
EDHE 6510.001History and Philosophy of Higher EducationSpring 2019 SPOT
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2019 SPOT
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
EDHE 5610.020Finance and Budgeting in Higher EducationFall 2018 SPOT
EDHE 6900.710Special ProblemsFall 2018
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
EDHE 6510.001History and Philosophy of Higher EducationSpring 2018 SPOT
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2018 SPOT
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2017 SPOT
EDHE 6000.001Proseminar in Higher EducationFall 2017 SPOT
EDHE 6950.706Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2017
EDHE 6900.700Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2017
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2017 SPOT
EDHE 6900.706Special ProblemsSpring 2017
EDHE 6850.002Studies in Higher/Adult EducationSpring 2017 SPOT
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
EDHE 6510.001History and Philosophy of Higher EducationFall 2016 SPOT
EDHE 6510.002History and Philosophy of Higher EducationFall 2016 SPOT
EDHE 6900.700Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2016
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2016
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2016 SPOT
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2015
EDHE 5610.001Finance and Budgeting in Higher EducationFall 2015 SPOT
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2015 SPOT
EDHE 6900.710Special ProblemsFall 2015
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2015
EDHE 6510.001History and Philosophy of Higher EducationSpring 2015 SPOT
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2015
EDHE 6950.701Doctoral DissertationFall 2014
EDHE 5610.001Finance and Budgeting in Higher EducationFall 2014
EDHE 6710.001Organization and Administration of Higher EducationFall 2014
EDHE 6900.710Special ProblemsFall 2014
EDHE 6710.001Organization and Administration of Higher EducationSpring 2014
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2014
EDHE 6900.706Special ProblemsSpring 2014
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2013
EDHE 6710.001Organization and Administration of Higher EducationFall 2013
EDHE 6550.001Policy Studies in Higher EducationSpring 2013
EDHE 6760.001Higher Education FinanceFall 2012
EDHE 6710.001Organization and Administration of Higher EducationFall 2012

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Taylor, B. (2022). Wrecked: Deinstitutionalization and partial defenses in state higher education policy. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press.
  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B. (2019). Unequal higher education: Wealth, status and student opportunity. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press.
  • Slaughter, S., Taylor, B.J. (2016). Higher education, stratification, and workforce development: Competitive advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada. Dordrecht, Springer.
  • Book Chapter

  • Taylor, B., Cantwell, B. (2021). Broad Access Institutions in crisis? Institutional vulnerability, state divestment, and the racial graduation gap. Unlocking opportunity through Broadly Accessible Institutions. 213-227. Routledge.
  • Slaughter, S., Taylor, B. (2019). Connections between universities and industry in the US: Trusteeship at elite universities before and after the Great Recession. Handbook of universities and regional development. 73-89. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Taylor, B.J., Weerts, D. (2017). Public purposes and benefits of independent higher educaiton. The challenge of independent colleges: Moving research into practice. 17-41. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Taylor, B.J., Rosinger, K.O., Slaughter, S. (2016). Academic patenting by US research universities: Strategic action in a highly stratified field. Higher education, stratification, and workforce development: Competitive advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada. 103-123. Dordrecht, Springer.
  • Rosinger, K.O., Taylor, B.J., Slaughter, S. (2016). The crème de la crème: Stratification among elite private research universities in the US. Higher education, stratification, and workforce development: Competitive advantage in Europe, the US, and Canad. 81-101. Dordrecht, Springer.
  • Taylor, B.J. (2016). The field dynamics of stratification among US research universities: The expansion of federal support for academic research, 2000-2008. Higher education, stratification, and workforce development: Competitive advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada. 59-79. Dordrecht, Springer.
  • Slaughter, S., Taylor, B.J., & Rosinger, K.O.. (2015). A critical reframing of human capital theory in higher education. Martinez-Aleman, A.M., Bensimon, E.M., & Pusser, B. (Eds.), Critical approaches to the study of higher education. 80-102. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Taylor, B.J., Morphew, C. (2013). Institutional contributions to financing students in US higher education: Trends in general subsidies, 1987-2007. D. Heller & C. Callender (Eds.), Student financing of higher education: A comparative perspective. 225-251. New York, Routledge Press.
  • Taylor, B.J., Webber, K., Jacobs, G. (2013). Internationalization, growth, and competition: The role of institutional researchers. A. Calderone & K.L. Webber (Eds.), New Directions in Institutional Research. 5-22. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
  • Morphew, C., Taylor, B.J. (2010). Markets in the U.S. higher education system: Imperfect competition for undergraduates. R. Brown (Ed.), Higher education and the market. 53-62. New York, Routledge Press.
  • Book Review

  • Taylor, B.J. (2025). _The Fantasy Economy_ and the postliberal university. 111 (1) https://www.aaup.org/article/fantasy-economy-and-postliberal-university
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Taylor, B. (2020). Human capital theory. The Sage encyclopedia of higher education, volume two. 775-778. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage.
  • Kunkle, K., Taylor, B., Watts, K. (2020). State funding for higher education. The Sage encyclopedia of higher education, volume four. 1394-1397. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage.
  • Journal Article

  • Taylor, B.J., Holley, K. (2024). Models of building a faculty: Institutional transformation and the disruption of the professoriate in public higher education. Innovative Higher Education. 49 (4) 623-643.
  • Taylor, B.J., Rosinger, K., Ford, K. (2024). The shape of the sieve: Which admissions application components are claimed as valued in particular institutional contexts?. Sociology of Education. 97 (3) 233-251.
  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B. (2024). Conceptualizing state re-engagement with public higher education. Educational Policy. 38 (5) 1200-1228.
  • Taylor, B.J., Kunkle, K., Watts, K. (2023). Democratic backsliding and the balance wheel hypothesis: Partisanship and state funding for higher education in the United States. Higher Education Policy. 36 781-803.
  • Barringer, S., Taylor, B., Riffe, K., Slaughter, S. (2022). Understanding models of trusteeship: An empirical examination of trustees’ involvement at research universities. Higher Education Policy. 35 102-132.
  • Taylor, B.J., Barringer, S.N., Slaughter, S. (2022). University board connectivity, finances and research production, 1985-2015. Teachers College Record. 124 (9) 3-35.
  • Dickson, T., Taylor, B. (2021). Faculty staffing patterns: Breadth and flexibility in professional physical therapy programs. Innovative Higher Education. 46 (5) 499-519.
  • Dickson, T., Taylor, B., Zafereo, J. (2020). Characteristics of professional physical therapist faculty and doctor of physical therapy programs, 2008-2017: Influences on graduation rate and first-time National Physical Therapy Examination pass rates. Physical Therapy. 100 1930-1947. https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzaa148
  • Taylor, B., Cantwell, B., Watts, K., Wood, O. (2020). Partisanship, white racial resentment, and state support for higher education. Journal of Higher Education. 92 (6) 858-887.
  • Cantwell, B., Taylor, B. (2020). Political rancor and educational inequality: Why building consensus is necessary to renew American higher education. Change. 52 (3) 68-72.
  • Johnson, J., Taylor, B.J. (2019). Academic capitalism and the faculty salary gap. Innovative Higher Education. 44 (1) 21-36.
  • Taylor, B.J., Barringer, S.N., Warshaw, J.B. (2018). Affiliated nonprofit organizations: Strategic action and research universities. The Journal of Higher Education. 89 (4) 422-452.
  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B. (2018). Unequal higher education in the United States: Growing participation and shrinking opportunities. Social Sciences. 7 (9) 1-22.
  • Taylor, B.J., Morphew, C.C. (2017). Phil Knight and the public purposes of higher education. Change. 49 (2) 43-49.
  • Huang, Y., Cantwell, B., Taylor, B.J. (2016). Reasons for becoming a postdoc: Differences by race and foreign-born status. Teachers College Record. 118 (11) 1-29.
  • Taylor, B.J. (2016). Strategic action fields in US higher education: The 1939 Mercer University heresy trial. Journal of Historical Sociology. 29 (3) 359-384.
  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B. (2016). The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Competition, resource concentration, and the “Great Recession” in the US. Higher Education Policy. 29 (2) 199-217.
  • Rosinger, K., Taylor, B.J., Coco, L., Slaughter, S. (2016). Organizational segmentation and the prestige economy: Deprofessionalization in high- and low-resource departments. The Journal of Higher Education. 87 (1) 27-54.
  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B. (2015). Global competition, US research universities, and international doctoral education: Growth and consolidation of an organizational field. Research in Higher Education. 56 (5) 411-441.
  • Taylor, B.J. (2015). Responses to conflicting field imperatives: Institutions and agency among evangelical Christian colleges. Sociological Spectrum. 35 (2) 207-227.
  • Cantwell, B., Taylor, B.J. (2015). The rise of the postdoctorate and the restructuring of academic research. Journal of Higher Education. 86 (5) 667-696.
  • Taylor, B.J., Morphew, C.C. (2014). Trends in cost-sharing among US public universities and their international implications. Higher Education Policy. 27 (1) 1-21.
  • Cantwell, B., Taylor, B.J. (2013). Global status, inter-institutional stratification, and organizational segmentation: A time-dynamic Tobit analysis of ARWU position among US universities. Minerva. 51 (2)
  • Cantwell, B., Taylor, B.J. (2013). Internationalization of the postdoctorate in the United States: Analyzing the demand for international postdoc labor. Higher Education.
  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B., Slaughter, S. (2013). Quasi-markets in US higher education: Humanities emphasis and institutional revenues. Journal of Higher Education. 84 (5) 675-707.
  • Morphew, C., Taylor, B.J. (2013). What sticker price doesn't mean: Non-profit higher education, expenditures, and general subsidies. Teachers College Record. http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=17355
  • Leslie, L., Slaughter, S., Taylor, B.J., Zhang, L. (2012). How do revenue variations affect expenditures within research universities?. Research in Higher Education. 53 (6) 614-639.
  • Taylor, B.J., Morphew, C. (2010). An analysis of baccalaureate college mission statements. Research in Higher Education. 51 (5) 483-503.
  • Taylor, B.J., Holley, K. (2009). Providing academic support services to students enrolled in online degree programs: The challenge for student affairs practitioners. The College Student Affairs Journal. 28 (1) 81-102.
  • Holley, K., Taylor, B.J. (2009). Socialization and learning in an online professional curriculum: Experiences of students in a college of nursing. Innovative Higher Education. 33 (4) 257-269.
  • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Taylor, B.J., Cantwell, B. (2024). An outline of the post-liberal university: Public, private and partisan goods. Change. 56 (6) 5-11.
  • Position Paper

  • Cantwell, B., Grenda, J., Taylor, B.J. (2023). Breaking the spiral of disillusionment: A proposal to secure universities as infrastructure for Michigan and beyond. East Lansing, MI, Center for Higher and Adult Education, Michigan State University. https://chae.msu.edu/files/attachments/60/document/CHAE%20RSF%20RREPORT_FINAL[print].pdf

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Taylor, B.J. (Co-Principal), "The executive science network: University trustees and the organization of university-industry exchanges," sponsored by National Science Foundation Grant #047479-01, Federal, $381581 Funded. (2013 - 2017).
  • Taylor, B.J. (Principal), "Re-investing for opportunity: Estimating the degree returns to targeted state-support to higher education in the Midwest," sponsored by Michigan State University, NFP, Funded. (2020 - 2022).
  • Taylor, B.J. (Principal), "The Executive Science Network: University Trustees and the Organization of University Industry Exchanges," sponsored by The University of Georgia, NFP, Funded. (2013 - 2017).
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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