Dr. Phillip J. Bowman, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1977, joined the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Post-Secondary Education (CSHPE) faculty in 2006. Dr. Bowman is Director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) which promotes basic scholarship as well as more engaged research, education, and service activities on diversity issues within universities and other major societal institutions. Professor Bowman is a social psychologist with a strong interest in the use of innovative research methods to address critical diversity issues in higher education and social policy. This includes theory-driven research on diversity issues in student development and the importance of higher education in the prevention of pressing social policy problems including youth joblessness, family poverty, health disparities, and urban distress. He held prior faculty positions at Michigan in Psychology and the Institute for Social Research as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and most recently at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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