Carol Trosset has been director of institutional research at Hampshire College since 2004. Her current projects center on the assessment of senior theses, retention analysis, and Hampshire's participation in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education. For nine years before that, she was director of institutional research at Grinnell College.
Her published research areas include student approaches to the discussion of diversity issues, student and faculty expectations of advising relationships, student perceptions of various academic disciplines, and the nature and validity of the information provided in student end-of-course evaluations.
She has done a variety of outcomes assessment consulting work, including a number of projects studying the learning outcomes of undergraduate research, and recently chaired the Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium's 2007 Forum on assessment.
She also regularly teaches preconference workshops on qualitative analysis methods. Carol holds a BA from Carleton College and a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Before entering institutional research, she held visiting faculty positions at the University of Arizona, Tulane University, the University of Virginia, Grinnell College, and Beloit College.