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Jordan Humphrey

College of EducationAssistant Dean, Assessment, Planning and EffectivenessStaffAdministrationFull Time
DegreesPhD
Contact
j.humphrey@depaul.edu(773) 325-7582
Office
2247 N. Halsted St. Office 211 Chicago, IL 60614

BIO

Jordan R. Humphrey is the assistant dean of Assessment, Planning & Effectiveness. She leads the College’s accreditation, compliance, and institutional effectiveness efforts, overseeing reporting, assessment systems, and program quality initiatives that support continuous improvement. In this role, she translates complex regulatory requirements into sustainable college-wide practices that strengthen academic integrity and advance strategic priorities.

Humphrey teaches part-time in the Counseling and Leadership, Language and Curriculum graduate programs and serves on doctoral dissertation committees. She is also member of the Higher Learning Commission’s Peer Corps.

Her expertise spans assessment and accreditation, teaching and learning, institutional identity and change, and civic and historical studies, with research focused on student learning, organizational change, crisis leadership, and higher education history.

She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education from Pennsylvania State University, her M.Ed. from University of Pennsylvania, and bachelor’s degrees from Franklin & Marshall College.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Butler, A, Rieckhoff, B, Owens, R., & Humphrey, J. (2025, August). Strengthening Teacher Residencies for Paraprofessionals in Special Education: Building Identity from Within. Journal of Teacher Education.
  • Humphrey, J.R. (2012, Spring). Constructing reality from the pages of Curious George: Reading, writing, and reflection on literacy. The Compact Impact Journal, (1), 38-41.
  • Sorber, N. & Humphrey, J.R. (2011). Reconsidering the historical role of students in curricular change: Challenging the traditional view, Higher Education in Review, 8, 13-40.
  • Griffin, K., Pifer, M., Humphrey, J., & Hazelwood, A. (2011, August). (Re)Defining departure: Exploring Black professors’ experiences with and responses to campus racial climate, American Journal of Education, 117 (4), 495-526.
  • Franklin, N., Humphrey, J. R., Roth, G., Jackson, D. (2010). A time of opportunity: Energy, extension, and economic development, Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 14(3), 13-46.

Book Chapters

  • Humphrey, J. R. (2010). “No food, no drinks, pencil only:” Checklists for conducting and interpreting archival research. In M. Gasman (Ed.), The history of U.S. higher education: Methods for understanding the past. New York: Routledge Press, 44-55.