{"id":194,"date":"2014-01-26T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T21:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-01-27T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:46:19","slug":"faculty-spotlight-robert-kelchen-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/faculty-spotlight-robert-kelchen-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight: Robert Kelchen, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-249 \" alt=\"Faculty Spotlight - Robert Kelchen\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/files\/2014\/01\/robert-kelchen-headshot-199x300.jpeg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/files\/2014\/01\/robert-kelchen-headshot-199x300.jpeg 199w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/files\/2014\/01\/robert-kelchen-headshot-560x840.jpeg 560w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/files\/2014\/01\/robert-kelchen-headshot-260x390.jpeg 260w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/files\/2014\/01\/robert-kelchen-headshot-160x240.jpeg 160w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/files\/2014\/01\/robert-kelchen-headshot.jpeg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Kelchen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Known for his prompt replies to emails (averaging 10 minutes), love of daily jogs year- round (even in this bitterly cold weather) and expertise of canning with his wife (from black raspberry jam to homemade pasta sauce), Dr. Robert Kelchen joined the ELMP department in the fall of 2013. He graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics and Finance from Truman State University (Missouri\u2019s highly selective Public Liberal Arts and Sciences university) then transitioned to the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison to acquire his master\u2019s degree in economics and years later defended his doctoral degree.<\/p>\n<p>His research interests include financial aid, college rankings, program evaluation, and higher\u00a0education finance. He has worked on numerous evaluations of financial aid policies, compiles the annual college rankings for Washington Monthly magazine, and serves a key role with the US DoE to develop a college ratings system. His research is regularly presented at national conferences and has been covered by numerous media and publication outlets such as <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, and MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of <a title=\"Dr. Kelchen's Media Coverage\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/rkelchen\/home\/media-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Kelchen&#8217;s media coverage<\/a> is available. \u00a0Below are some recent publications &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges.\u201d <em>Washington Monthly.<\/em>, September 2013<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChange FAFSA Now.\u201d <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>., August 2013<\/li>\n<li>Recommendations for the Effective and Equitable Implementation of Performance-Based Funding for\u00a0Wisconsin Higher Education. Madison, WI: WISCAPE., January 2013<\/li>\n<li>Review of \u201cGetting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education.\u201d <em>Journal of Student\u00a0Financial Aid<\/em>, 43(1), 55-58., January 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2012, Dr. Kelchen began his first blog, <a title=\"Kelchen on Education\" href=\"http:\/\/kelchenoneducation.worldpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kelchen on Education<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and provides regular postings regarding issues in higher education. Check it out as it is quite interesting to see\u00a0his view within the field. \u00a0He can be followed on Twitter (<a title=\"rklechen on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rkelchen\" target=\"_blank\">@rkelchen<\/a>). Oh,&#8230;he and his\u00a0wife are supporters and stock owners of the Green Bay Packers! So&#8230;.Go Green Bay! (Maybe Super Bowl XLIX!).<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Kelchen&#8217;s office is located in Jubilee Hall, room\u00a0413. \u00a0His office hours are from 2:00pm &#8211; 4:30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for his prompt replies to emails (averaging 10 minutes), love of daily jogs year- round (even in this bitterly cold weather) and expertise of canning with his wife (from black raspberry jam to homemade pasta sauce), Dr. Robert Kelchen&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/faculty-spotlight-robert-kelchen-ph-d\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,12,14],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hegsa-insider","tag-faculty-spotlight","tag-february-2014","tag-robert-kelchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}