Education
At this post she completed a survey of 1653 of the 1979 women who received doctorates in 1957 and 1958 to gauge their productivity and involvement in the workforce.
At this post she completed a survey of 1653 of the 1979 women who received doctorates in 1957 and 1958 to gauge their productivity and involvement in the workforce.
In 1965 Doctor Astin accepted a position as a researcher for the Commission on Human Resources and Higher Education with the National Academy of Science in Washington District of Columbia This research project lead to the publication of her first book The Woman Doctorate in America: Origins,, and Family. While at University of California, Los Angeles Doctor Astin served as the Associate Provost of the College of Letters and Science at University of California, Los Angeles from 1983 to 1987, been a trustee of Mountain.
Saint Mary"s College since 1985, served as a trustee of Hampshire College from 1972 to 1979, served on the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership, and on the Board of the National Council for Research on Women. In the American Psychological Association, Doctor Astin has served on the Boards of Policy and Planning and Education and Training and has been president of the Division of the Psychology of Women.
She has also served as Chair of the Board of the American Association for Higher Education.