Nissa Dahlin-Brown

Contact:
University of Tennessee
Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Center for Public Policy
1640 Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-4014

Office: 865.974.0931
Fax: 865.974.8777
Email: nissa@utk.edu

Bio: Nissa Dahlin-Brown was hired as Assistant Director in July, 2003. She worked in the Division of Continuing Education at UT as a program coordinator and assistant director in Conferences and later in Professional & Personal Development from 1984 - 2003. She has a bachelor's degree in Architecture (1979), master's degree in Technological and Adult Education (1989), and a doctorate in Higher Education Administration and Policy Studies (2003) from the University of Tennessee. In July 2005, she received the Alice L Beeman Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Communications and Marketing given by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for her dissertation, "The Impact of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on Eight Public MBA Programs." An article, written from this dissertation, “The Perceptual Impact of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on Eight Public MBA Programs" is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education in June 2006. An article co-authored with Dr. Bob Kronick, UT College of Education, Health and Human Sciences,“Collaboration and Prevention: Looking Back on Eleven Years of a University Assisted Community School,” will be published in Fall 2008 by the University of Pennsylvania Netter Center for Community Partnerships. In Fall 2008, Nissa taught a First Year Studies course for UT freshman and co-taught the Baker Center Learning Community’s course on civic engagement with Dr. Michael Fitzgerald and Gavin Luter. .

Selected Publications & Presentations:

An article on U.S. News & World Report's ranking of MBA schools published in the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education . The article is based on her dissertation on this controversial subject. Read the Article (pdf).

Education

• Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration and Policy Studies , The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003.
• Master of Science in Technological and Adult Education University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1989.
• Bachelors in Architecture , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1979.

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Honorable Howard H. Baker, Jr.
P.O. Box 600
Huntsville, TN 37756
423-663-9148
hbaker@bakerdonelson.com