Institutional research

Eventually he earned a PhD in higher education at the University of Iowa, studying college student access and success as a researcher on the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education.

He has written and published, served as an Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, and consulted for colleges and universities on how to use their data to improve in areas like recruiting, financial aid leveraging, admissions, student retention, graduation, and post-college outcomes.

Dr. Salisbury started the Tuition Fit Project in the summer of 2018 and continues to be an enthusiastic advocate for the benefits of price transparency for both students and colleges.

Welcome, Mark.

chance to really work with people looking for college and had a lot of chances to meet families and be a part of those conversations every day.

And then as I grew and evolved and started to discover other things that I wanted to dig into, I did.

Decided to go back and do a PhD and then ended up on the other side of the conversation or the other side of the scenario, I suppose, as a director of institutional research.

That position is sort of like in the 15th century, that really old guy with the beard and the tower with all the books.