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Bastedo, Michael

• Assistant Professor
  
• University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  
• Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
  
• United State

Prior to his position at CSHPE, he was Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was also affiliated faculty in the Institute for Government and Public Affairs. Prior to entering the academic profession, Dr. Bastedo held policy positions with the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and research positions in the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement and the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research.

His work has been published in the Review of Higher Education, Higher Education, and American Higher Education in the 21st Century (2nd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press) and is forthcoming in The Sociology of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press) and The Shifting Frontiers of Academic Decision Making (ACE/Praeger).

He holds the A.B. with honors from Oberlin College, an M.A. with distinction from Boston College, and the A.M. in Sociology and Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University.

Selected Publications

• Bastedo, Michael N. 2005 (in press). "The Making of an Activist Governing Board." Review of Higher Education.
• Bastedo, Michael N. 2005 (in press). "Activist Trustees in the Public University: Reconceptualizing the Public Interest." In Peter D. Eckel (Ed.), The Shifting Frontiers of Academic Decision Making. Washington, DC: ACE/Praeger.
• Bastedo, Michael N. 2005 (in press). "Higher Education Policy and Politics: A Sociological Approach." In Patricia J. Gumport (Ed.), The Sociology of Higher Education: Problems and Prospects (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
• Bastedo, Michael N. and Patricia J. Gumport. 2003. "Access to What? Mission Differentiation and Academic Stratification in U.S. Public Higher Education." Higher Education 46: 341-359.
• Gumport, Patricia J. and Michael N. Bastedo. 2001. "Academic Stratification and Endemic Conflict: Remedial Education Policy at the City University of New York." Review of Higher Education 24: 333-349

In higher education research, policy formation is an understudied process by which the environment for college and universities is transformed. The perspectives of policymakers, legislators, and other state officials are often misinterpreted and misunderstood, leading to unnecessary conflict between universities and policymakers. In the European context, higher education research has focused primarily on the effects of public policy rather than on the policy formation process itself, creating a substantial gap in the research.

This proposed project, drawing upon a recently completed project on U.S. higher education policy, uses the concept of metapolicy to understand emerging developments in European higher education policy. It focuses attention on the role of mission differentiation and system development in changing contexts for student access and equity, one of the major NCS themes for this year.

This project can best be studied in the European Union and member countries, where a dramatic transformation has occurred in university governance since the Bologna Declaration. I will be based at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, one of the world's leading research centers in higher education policy and governance. This host location will provide innumerable collaborative opportunities with prominent higher education researchers worldwide, and will facilitate access to key policymakers in the European Union to ensure the project's success.