Senior Associate, Evaluation & Research

John H. Pryor joined K&A in 2004 to serve as Senior Associate for Evaluation & Research. Mr. Pryor currently serves the Higher Education Institute (HERI) at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences as Associate Director of HERI and Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). As Director of CIRP, Mr. Pryor coordinates survey development/administration and advances the use of the data for institutional planning and national research in higher education.

Prior to Mr. Pryor's work at UCLA, he served as the Director of Student Affairs Planning, Evaluation and Research at Dartmouth College, and before that, as the Director of Undergraduate Evaluation and Research also at Dartmouth College where he originally arrived in 1992 as a Program Evaluator on a US Department of Education grant to evaluate a middle-school alcohol and other drug prevention program (which he also helped design). For a combined 12 years, he has also been a Research Assistant Professor in Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School . During that time, Mr. Pryor has served as a consultant to numerous clients in the secondary and higher education arena, mostly concerning program evaluation and survey research in educational settings. He has a unique mix of expertise in both quantitative and qualitative fields of inquiry.

One of Mr. Pryor's strengths is in communicating complex research findings in an accessible way to both researchers and learners, or audiences, without a research background. He has the rare combination of being both a specialist in research and a generalist in the applicability of research findings. While experienced in creating and evaluating programs across all areas of student life, he has particular expertise in alcohol and other health risk behaviors, as well as diversity, student engagement, and student satisfaction.

Mr. Pryor was one of the first educational researchers to harness the power of the internet. As early as 1996 he was pioneering web-based surveys with college students. Recognized nationally as a leader in this field, Mr. Pryor has presented frequently at national conferences on the benefits and intricacies of web-based surveys.

Mr. Pryor's family includes Karen, his wife of 20 years and a clinician psychologist specializing in forensic assessment; their two children, ages 10 and 6; and a Portuguese Water Dog named Beiju. He has been very active as a lay leader in the Episcopal Church, and was privileged to march in the procession leading Bishop Gene Robinson to his consecration as Bishop of New Hampshire. Mr. Pryor's personal interests include choral and solo singing (tenor), gardening, reading, swing and salsa dancing, and appreciating fine wine, single malt scotch, and good jazz.

In his work with K&A, Mr. Pryor is most interested in using his knowledge and expertise ��� particularly in Student Affairs and Institutional Research ��� for: program evaluation; survey, focus-group and interview research design, methodology, analysis, and reporting; and to inform educational strategic planning and communications.

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