National Higher Education Benchmark Institute Staff

Jeff Seybert is Director at the National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute (NHEBI) at Johnson County Community College. Prior to assuming directorship of the Benchmarking Institute, he served as Director of Institutional Research at JCCC for 21 years. From 1974-1981, Jeff served as assistant professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Jeff holds a doctoral and master's degree in experimental psychology from the University of Oklahoma and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cal-State Long Beach.

Jeff is past president of the National Community College Council for Research and Planning and the Mid-America Association for Institutional Research, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR).

He serves as associate editor for Planning for Higher Education, consulting editor for the Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, and The AIR Professional File, consulting editor and contributing columnist for Assessment Update, and project director for the Kansas Study of Community College Instructional Costs and Productivity and the National Community College Benchmark Project Jeff has published more than 50 articles and book chapters and served as consultant to more than 100 colleges, non-profit, and other organizations in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Chile, the Pacific Region, and the Caribbean in the areas of assessment of student outcomes and institutional effectiveness, program evaluation, strategic planning, and institutional research.