Mary Taylor Huber

Staff Information

Role

Consulting Scholar, Carnegie Classifications, U.S. Professors of the Year, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Bio

Mary Taylor Huber directs the Foundation's role in the US Professors of the Year program, and is an advisor to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Since joining the Foundation in 1985, she has written widely on cultures of teaching in higher education, integrative learning, and faculty roles and rewards.

Co-author of the influential Carnegie Foundation report, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate (1997), her recent books include Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2002); Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers (2004); and The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005); a new book, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact will be published in 2011.

Huber is U.S. editor for Arts and Humanities in Higher Education and writes the book review column for Change magazine. A cultural anthropologist, she has also written books and essays on colonial institutions in Papua New Guinea; she holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh.

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