Rate My Professor David Siegel

David Siegel is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations in the College of Education at East Carolina University. His academic career centers on higher education, where he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Previously recognized as an associate professor of higher, adult, and counselor education, Siegel specializes in educational leadership, particularly in the area of higher education. His scholarly work explores critical themes such as cross-sector collaboration in higher education, organizational responses to diversity pressures in postsecondary settings, the business dimensions of higher education institutions, and strategies for reclaiming time and space for intellectual pursuits within academia.

Siegel has authored several key books that have contributed to the field of higher education studies. These include The Call for Diversity: Pressure, Expectation, and Organizational Response in the Postsecondary Setting (RoutledgeFalmer, 2003), Organizing for Social Partnership: Higher Education in Cross-Sector Collaboration (Routledge, 2010), and The Interlude in Academe: Reclaiming Time and Space for Intellectual Life (Lexington Books, 2023). He co-edited the three-volume set The Business of Higher Education (Praeger, 2009) with John C. Knapp. His essays have been published in outlets such as Academe, Aeon, Liberal Education, and The Chronicle Review. Siegel's research has been supported by grants from the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Fulbright Specialist Program. As a Fulbright Specialist in 2011, he spent six weeks in South Africa, delivering lectures at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town while consulting with colleagues at those institutions and the University of South Africa in Johannesburg. He has also served as a keynote speaker at events such as the 2024 Symposium on Democracy at Washington & Jefferson College and contributes expertise to university resources on qualitative research data collection and coding and data analysis.