Mailing Address
19 Bricker Hall
190 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-1340
Fax: (614) 292-3658
John Ryan
Associate Director
John Ryan currently serves as assistant provost and associate director of institutional research and planning at The Ohio State University. He coordinates program review for over 100 academic departments across the university’s 19 colleges and supports a variety of institutional effectiveness projects and initiatives. His areas of expertise include higher education policy and administration, academic program review, learning outcomes assessment, student persistence strategies, strategic planning, and research methods.
He serves as a member of the Association for Institutional Research Publication Committee, consults and presents on the topics of assessment, strategic indicators, student learning and program review, and has advised students and taught research inquiry courses at the graduate level. John’s prior experience includes positions in student affairs at The Ohio State University, fiscal and policy analysis for the Ohio Legislative Budget Office, and as the assessment officer at Franciscan University. He earned his master’s degree in political science from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
John’s publications and research have focused on the relationship between institutional expenditures, degree completion, and student engagement as well as principles and best practices in promoting institutional effectiveness and academic quality. Some of his current interests and work focus on cultivating research-based innovation in higher education, bridging the improvement and accountability divide, addressing the cost-access-quality dilemma in higher education, examining factors that influence faculty satisfaction and retention, and testing models of student learning and development as a means to foster greater collaboration between student and academic affairs units in colleges and universities.
