I direct the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), housed in the Center for Postsecondary Research. Through my work with NSSE, I hope to improve the national discourse about quality and accountability in higher education, while also providing institutions with tools to diagnose and improve undergraduate teaching and learning.

Prior to joining Indiana University in January 2008, I served as Senior Scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where I directed a major overhaul of the Foundation's widely-used Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. I also served as the Foundation's director of survey research.

I have also worked for an educational research and consulting group, served in student affairs as an assistant dean, and worked in undergraduate admissions.

Ph.D. Education (minor: sociology), 1996, Stanford University, Stanford CA

A.M. Educational Administration and Policy Analysis, 1993, Stanford University, Stanford CA

A.B. French, 1980, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH

• McCormick, A.C., G.R. Pike, G.D. Kuh, and P.D. Chen (2009). “Comparing the utility of the 2000 and 2005 Carnegie Classification systems in research on students’ college experiences and outcomes.” Research in Higher Education 50(2):144-167.
• McCormick, A.C. (2009). Toward reflective accountability: The use of student engagement assessments for accountability and transparency. In Gonyea, R.M. and Kuh, G.D. (eds.), Using NSSE for Accountability and Transparency. New Directions for Institutional Research no. 141: 97-106.
  
• McCormick, A.C. (2008). The complex interplay between classification and ranking of colleges and universities: Should the Berlin principles apply equally to classification? Higher Education in Europe 33: 210-218.