Jason E. Lane

Jason E. Lane serves as dean of the College of Education, Health, and Society at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and Professor of Higher Education Leadership and International Education. Lane leads several national efforts to strengthen and diversify leadership pipelines in higher education, including the Association of Governing Board’s Institute for Leadership and Governance; the National Association of System Heads’ (NASH) System Leadership Academy; and the State University of New York’s (SUNY) Hispanic Leadership Institute. Lane has been director and/or principal investigator for more than $21 million in external funding and published nearly 100 papers and more than 10 books, including Multi-National Colleges and Universities (Jossey-Bass, 2011), Building a Smarter University (SUNY Press, 2014), and Universities and Colleges (SUNY Press, 2012). His awards include being named a Fulbright New Century Scholar and the award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education Research from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Previous positions include dean of the School of Education for SUNY at Albany, vice provost and senior associate vice chancellor of academic planning and strategic leadership for the SUNY system, founding executive director of SUNY’s Academic and Innovative Leadership (SAIL) Institute, and director of research for the Rockefeller Institute of Government. He earned a BS in political science from Southeast Missouri State University and an MA of political science and PhD in higher education from Pennsylvania State University.