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Department
Leadership, Policy and Organizations
Office Location
205C Payne
Mailing Address
414 GPC
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Direct Phone
615-322-8021
Fax Number
615-343-7094
Email Address
John M. Braxton
Professor of Education
D. Ed., The Pennsylvania State University, 1980
Research Area
Professor Braxton has two major programs of research. One program centers on the study of college and university faculty members. Faculty scholarly role performance and the normative structures of undergraduate college teaching and research are the primary foci of this particular program of research.
His other program of research focuses on the college student experience in general and the college student departure process in particular. Within this program of research, Professor Braxton conducts research on college student departure, assesses current theory on college student departure and constructs theory on this phenomena.
Short Biography
John M. Braxton is Professor of Education in the department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations. His research interests center on the college student experience, the sociology of the academic profession, and academic course-level processes. He has published over 80 publications in the form of articles in referred journals, books, and book chapters.
His current scholarly interests include research and theory development pertaining to college student departure, scientific misconduct, and the normative structure of undergraduate college teaching. Recent articles and book chapters on these topics have appeared in The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Science, Technology and Human Values and Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research.
Professor Braxton also has edited three books: Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle (Vanderbilt University, Press), Perspectives on Scholarly Misconduct in the Sciences (Ohio State University Press), and Faculty Teaching and Research: Is There Conflict? (Jossey-Bass). He has also authored with Alan E. Bayer Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) and Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship Through Boyer's Four Domains (ASHE-ERIC, Jossey-Bass Higher Education Report series, 2002) with William Luckey and Patricia Helland.
Professor Braxton serves as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Higher Education and Research in Higher Education and is a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of College Student Retention. Braxton also currently serves as the Immediate-Past President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.