Dr. R. Eugene Rice is Scholar in Residence and Director of the Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards at the American Association of Higher Education in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Antioch College, where he continues to have an appointment as Professor of Sociology and Religion. He moved to Antioch from the Carnegie Foundation (Princeton, NJ) where he was Senior Fellow engaged in the national study of changing faculty priorities, a topic on which he has published extensively. At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, he was a major contributor to the development of the late Ernest Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered. Dr. Rice recently authored a major working paper from his current work entitled, "Making a Place for the New American Scholar."

During the major part of his career, Dr. Rice was Professor of Sociology and Religion at the University of the Pacific, where he helped initiate the first of the experimental "cluster colleges" and served as chairperson of the Department of Sociology. His teaching and research focus on the sociology and ethics of the professions and the workplace. Dr. Rice received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He served as Research Directory (with Ann Austin) of the "Future of the Academic Workplace" project sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges. Accounts of his study of faculty morale have appeared in Change magazine and a recent book, A Good Place to Work.

Dr. Rice is on the board of directors of the Society for Values in Higher Education, and the national advisory committee of the Preparing Future Faculty project sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. He is also a member of the Accounting Education Change Commission and on the editorial boards of Innovative Higher Education and Teaching Professor.