Ellen Weissinger

Dean › Graduate Studies

University of Nebraska-Lincoln • 1100 SEH • Lincoln NE, 68588-0619 • 402.472.2875 • eweissinger1@unl.edu

Ellen Weissinger became dean of Graduate Studies on Jan. 18, 2008.

Weissinger has held numerous administrative positions at UNL. She was the associate director of the Buros Institute for Mental Measurements (1992-1994), associate dean of Teachers College (1995-1999) and executive associate dean of Graduate Studies (2002-2008).

A Nebraska native, Weissinger earned her undergraduate degree from UNL in 1980. She completed her Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1982 and a doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1985. She taught at the University of Iowa for one year before joining the UNL faculty in 1986. She was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 1999.

Weissinger's academic interest is the interdisciplinary area of leisure and recreation studies. She has also specialized in psychometric work and has published three measurement instruments. From 1996-2001 she served as editor of the Journal of Leisure Research. At UNL, she has taught research methods courses in the Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Education program, including foundations of educational research, survey methods, experimental methods and evaluation theory.

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