Sandra W. Gahn, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Office of Institutional Research
Office: 515.294.8539
Email: sgahn@iastate.edu

Education
Ph.D., Higher Education & Research Methods, University of Kansas
M.S., Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Iowa State University
B.S., Psychology, Iowa State University

Role in the ADVANCE
Dr. Sandra Gahn joined the ADVANCE Team in August 2006 and is a co-PI in the ISU system since May 2007. She is the Associate Director of the Iowa State University Office of Institutional Research. She develops and updates the database on faculty that has been used to produce the indicator reporting tables. She is also authoring reports, publications and presentations using ADVANCE data.

Dr. Gahn is a member of the Council, co-PI Team and Research Team and is involved in collecting and analyzing salary, space, start-up costs and survey data. She gave a presentation with graduate research assistant Jason Pontius in March of 2009 about the results of the AAUDE Faculty Satisfaction Survey at ISU. In Year 3 she presented findings from ADVANCE research at our Conference on Faculty Flexibility (Oct 2008), the Women in Educational Leadership Conference (Oct 2008), the Mid-American Association for Institutional Research Conference (Nov 2008) and the Association of Institutional Research National Forum (June 2009).

Research Interests

• Faculty Labor Market
• Salary & Gender Equity
• Career/Life Balance Issues

Selected Publications
Gahn, S. W. & Twombly, S. B. (2001). Dimensions of the community college faculty labor market. Review of Higher Education, 24(3), 259-282.

Wlodkowski, R., Mauldin, J., & Gahn, S. (2001). Learning in the fast lane: Adult learners' persistence and success in accelerated college programs. Lumina Foundation. Center for the Study of Accelerated Learning.

Gahn, S. W. (1995). Professional issues of associate faculty at research and doctoral granting universities by discipline, time-in-rank, and gender. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Hall, K. M., & Gahn, S. W. (1994). Predictors of success for academically dismissed students following readmission. NACADA Journal, 14(1), 8-12.