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The Insecurity of Higher Ed Research - Inside Higher Ed

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Scott Thomas, a professor of education at Claremont Graduate University, acknowledged that there was some "danger" for higher education researchers in the fact that they are charged with studying the enterprise in which they work. But he also challenged the idea -- inherent in the session's disparaging title -- that scholars in the field aren't doing relevant and significant studies.<br /> <br /> "We have a disbelief ourselves about the quality of our own work, a little bit of a crisis of our own confidence," Thomas said, urging his colleagues to develop "specialized knowledge" that can't be matched by scholars from other disciplines who dabble in the groves of higher education now and then.