Biography

Tony Chambers is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Students in Postsecondary Education in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at OISE/UT. Professor Chambers joined the University of Toronto in 2005 as the Associate Vice Provost, Students and Assistant Professor after holding various academic and senior administrative positions in the United States, most recently at the University of Michigan where he was associate director of the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good and adjunct associate professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. He currently teaches courses on the Student Development, Learning and Success in Postsecondary Education within the Higher Education Program at OISE/UT. Professor Chambers’ research has included topics such as student development and success in higher education, improving the quality of the student experience, student leadership, factors influencing access and success of underrepresented student populations, and the social and public purposes of postsecondary education.