Helen Astin

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Helen "Lena" S. Astin (née Stavridou; February 6, 1932 – October 27, 2015) was an American academic who was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and Senior Scholar of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA.[1] She is most known for her scholarly activism and research concerning higher education issues of women and minority students, as well as women’s career development. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award of Division J of the American Education Research Association and received the Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.[2]

Career

In 1965 Dr. Astin accepted a position as a researcher for the Commission on Human Resources and Higher Education with the

Washington D.C. At this post she completed a survey of 1653 of the 1979 women who received doctorates in 1957 and 1958 to gauge their productivity and involvement in the workforce.[3]
This research project lead to the publication of her first book The Woman Doctorate in America: Origins, Career, and Family.

In 1973 Dr. Astin and her husband,

UCLA Center for the Study of Women in 1989 with fellow faculty Nancy Henley, Anne Peplau, Kathryn Sklar, and Karen Rowe[5] and also serves as founding director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA with her husband.[6]

Personal life

Helen (Lena) Astin was born Helen Stavridou on February 6, 1932 in

University of Maryland.[10]

Helen and husband Alexander (Sandy) Astin were married on February 11, 1956 after having met as peers at Maryland. Their first son, John Alexander, was born on August 28, 1959, and Paul Allen, their second son, was born on March 2, 1961. Both sons have followed in their parents footsteps and are educators, John a college professor, and Paul the founder of Manzanita School.

Helen died at her home in Los Angeles on October 27, 2015.[11]

Published work

  • Astin, H.S.. and Leland, C. Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change. Jossey-Bass/Wiley Publishers, 1991.
  • Astin, H.S. "Leadership for Social Change," in About Campus, July/August, 1996.
  • Bryant, A.N. and Astin, H.S. "The Correlates of Spiritual Struggle during the College Years," Journal of Higher Education, 79(1), 2008.
  • Astin, A.W., Astin, H.S., and Lindholm, J.A. "Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students' Inner Lives," Jossey-Bass/Wiley Publishers, 2010.

References

  1. ^ "Research Team". Higher Education Research Institute. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Helen S. Astin". Integral Life, Inc. Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
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  4. ^ "Research Team". Higher Education Research Institute. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  5. ^ "History of the Center". UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  6. ^ "About". Higher Education Research Institute. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
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  8. ^ Barnett, Teresa (2003). UCLA Women's Studies Program oral history transcript, 2000 : Helen S. Astin. Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "The Adelphi University Academy of Distinction" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  10. ^ "Helen (Lena) Astin Faculty Page". Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  11. ^ Elaine Woo. "Helen Astin dies at 83; feminist scholar, UCLA professor studied students' spirituality". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
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