Pat Linn

Core Faculty, School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy

Summary of Education and Relevant Experience

B.S., Denison University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas.
Pat Linn is a developmental psychologist and researcher who worked in perinatal clinical research settings before joining the faculty at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1986. There she taught a range of research methods and developmental psychology courses. In 1999 she was named to the J.D. Dawson Chair of Cooperative Education, where she directed an ongoing lifespan study of cooperative education at Antioch College. After serving as a visiting faculty member at AUS for a year, Linn was invited to stay as core faculty and was formerly chair of the Psy.D. program.

Affiliations

American Psychological Association

Selected Publications

Linn, P. L. (2006). "Cooperative education." In J. Greenhaus and G. Callanan (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Linn, P. L., Ferguson, J., and Egart, K. (2004). "Career Exploration Via Cooperative Education and Lifespan Occupational Choice." Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65(3), 430-447.

Jones, P., and Linn, P. L. (2004). "Cooperative Education in the Liberal Arts and Sciences." In R. Coll and C. Eames, (Eds.), International Handbook for Cooperative Education (pp. 123-130). Boston, MA: World Association for Cooperative Education.

Linn, P. L., Howard, A., and Miller, E. (Eds.) (2004). Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Chapters contributed: "Theories about Learning and Development in Cooperative Education and Internships" (pp. 11-28) "Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data" (pp. 97-113) "Implications for Research and Practice" (with E. Miller, pp. 421-437)

Linn, P. L. (2002, March 18). "Learning theory and the liberal arts." LiberalArtsOnline, 2 (4), available on line at www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/liberalartsonline.

Howard, A., and Linn, P.L. (2001). "Cooperative Education Within a Liberal Arts Tradition." Academic Exchange Quarterly, 5(2), 125 - 132.

Professional Presentations

Linn, P. Learning That Lasts a Lifetime. Keynote address to the Australian Collaborative Education Network Conference, Surfer's Paradise, Queensland, Australia, Sept. 29, 2006.

Linn, P. Stepping into the Waterfall: How Wet Do Students Get? Keynote address to the Asia/Pacific Rim Cooperative Education Association, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 3, 2004.

Linn, P. Cooperative Education Learning: By Chance or by Choice. Keynote address to the combined meeting of the New England Association for Cooperative Education and Field Experience and the New York State Cooperative and Experiential Education Association, Saratoga Springs, NY, Oct. 27, 2003.

Linn, P. We Are All Coaches: Do We Understand Our Players? Keynote address to the Ohio Cooperative Education Association, Canton, OH, May 16, 2002.

Linn, P. From Research to Assessment. Invited remarks for a panel at the Practice Oriented Education Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, April 27, 2001.

Awards

James W. Wilson Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in the Field of Cooperative Education and Internships, Cooperative Education and Internships Association, 2006

Ralph W. Tyler Award for Outstanding Research in Cooperative Education, Cooperative Education Association, 2000

Best Speaker Award at the Annual Conference on Industry and Education Collaboration (Cooperative Education Division), Savannah, GA, Feb., 1998

Grants

National Science Foundation (under revision for resubmission), Cooperative Education and STEM Student Development and Early Career Success, 2005

National School-to-Work Office and Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education Grants for Higher Education Institutions Partnering with High Schools to Expand Work-Based Learning, 1999 to 2000 ($75,000 each year)

Pierson-Lovelace Foundation, Processes of Cooperative Education Learning, 1999 to 2001($50,000)

Cooperative Education Association Research Award, "Processes of Cooperative Education Learning," 1997 ($2,250)

Cooperative Education Division of the American Association of Engineering Educators Research Award for "Processes of Cooperative Education Learning," 1997 ($4,000)

Professional Interests

Science of learning in cooperative education
Infant behavior and development
U.S. social policy effects on immigrant children
Bilingual and bicultural development
Intellectual development in late adolescence.

On Interest Area

"I'm fascinated by the development of humans of all ages, especially cognitive development. I was trained in an infant research laboratory, then found myself at Antioch College, so my interest shifted to how students learn in an alternating work and study program. Now my research interests are focusing on how research training impacts clinical practice, and vice versa."

On Teaching at Antioch

"I love working in higher education, the site of so much remarkable development. All faculty love to learn and share a secret: we learn more from students than they do from us. I want students in the Psy.D program to see themselves as skilled researchers and learn from them what are the burning questions in clinical psychology."

Contact Information

School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
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