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Meet the Director
Karen High, Ph.D., is a professor of engineering and science education at Clemson University. Prior to Clemson, High pursued technical and educational research as a chemical engineering at Oklahoma State University for 24 years. Her technical research focused on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making.
She has been active in educational research and initiatives for over 32 years. High has garnered more than $9 million in research funding, has written more than 95 peer- reviewed publications, and delivered more than 240 presentations and workshops on both chemical engineering and STEM educational research. She has mentored more than 50 graduate students and 55 undergraduate students in chemical engineering and STEM education research. She has been engaged in two ADVANCE grants: one at Oklahoma State University, where she focused on faculty mentoring, and one at Clemson, where she was a co-director of the Trailblazer program and mentored faculty on leadership development. High has held a variety of administrative positions: director of STEM faculty development initiatives at Clemson; associate dean for undergraduate studies in Clemson's College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences; and interim director of student services, coordinator of the women in engineering programs, and director of the Measurement and Control Engineering Center, all at Oklahoma State.
Dr. High currently conducts educational research and initiatives for STEM faculty and graduate student development, mentoring, critical thinking and communication skills, promoting women in STEM, and enhancing student success in calculus, program evaluation and assessment, and K-12 STEM education. She delivered an NSF-funded workshop to develop a research agenda on STEM faculty development. She is a co-editor of the recently published Handbook of STEM Faculty Development.
High is engaged with the M360 mentoring initiative. She has been a mentor for the APA-ENG and a coach for the KEEN THRIVE program. She has been involved in the Faculty Development Division (FDD) of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) since its inception and is the incoming chair of the FDD. She has also been active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
High has served as an ABET PEV (evaluator) for chemical and general engineering programs for over 12 years and has been highly engaged with faculty development and institutional implementation of the new ABET DEI criteria. She has delivered numerous faculty development workshops on promoting equity in STEM, critical thinking and communication, calculus success, graduate student and faculty mentoring, chemical engineering content, STEM in K12, transfer student success, research methods, equitable faculty evaluation (tenure and promotion) and others. She has led Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) in STEM content delivery and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). She teaches courses in action research, professional STEM communication, teaching STEM online, and practicum in STEM education.
