Ted Marchese, managing director, joined Academic Search after 18 years with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). From 1982-99, he edited the AAHE Bulletin, an award-winning monthly.  From 1984 to early 2000, he was executive editor of  Change, higher education’s most widely read magazine

At AAHE, Marchese's substantive interests focused first on the assessment of student learning.  In the mid-80s, he helped create the AAHE Assessment Forum as a center for leadership and thought on the topic, and founded AAHE's assessment conference, which last June attracted 1,600 participants.  In the early Nineties, Marchese led AAHE efforts to examine concepts of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) for university life; this led in 1996 to creation of AAHE's Summer Academy on “organizing for learning,” a five-day, 40-campus event held each July in the Rockies.

Prior to joining AAHE, Marchese spent 14 years at Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he taught statistics, social research, and the law of crimes.  As an administrator, his assignments included planning, institutional research, government relations, accreditation, and grants management.  From 1979-82, he was the College’s Vice President for Administration.

Over the years, Marchese has consulted or spoken at some 300 campuses and has keynoted several dozen conferences, including seven abroad.  In 1994-95, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, offering a course on "Teaching, Learning, and Assessment."  He is a trustee of Eckerd College and of the 21st Century Learning Initiative.

He worked in Washington, D.C., as a staff aide to U.S. Senator Clifford P. Case (1960-61), then on the early Peace Corps staff (1962), and then for the American Council on Education’s Commission on Academic Affairs (1963-65).

Education: Ted Marchese has a degrees from Rutgers (English), Georgetown (law), and Michigan (Ph.D. in higher education).