Miami University
Jason W Osborne, Miami University, Professor of Statistics
Jason Osborne has served as a leader at higher education institutions including Miami University, Clemson, and Louisville.
I worked with leaders at all levels of the university to implement a boldly creative strategic plan emphasizing faculty support, student success, and a robust undergraduate and graduate experience- whether you studied with us in Oxford, Hamilton, Middletown, West Chester, Luxembourg, or in our onlin
Jason Osborne, Miami University Provost
Higher Education writings
How "loot boxes" in children's video games can lead to gambling problems
How "loot boxes" in children's video games can lead to gambling problems
How "loot boxes" in children's video games can lead to gambling problems
While gambling is illegal in the U.S., children can begin gambling as early as 10, and 80% of adolescents reported gambling in the past year. If your child plays video games, they may be gambling without realizing it. Do you know how to identify gambling behavior and what you can do if you suspect there is a problem? Jason Osborne, a member of Miami University's Institute for Responsible Gaming, Lottery, and Sport discusses this concerning trend.
Preparing your institution for the Demographic Cliff
How "loot boxes" in children's video games can lead to gambling problems
How "loot boxes" in children's video games can lead to gambling problems
Jason Osborne and Brent Shock, both leaders in Miami University, discuss how institutions can pivot to face he "demographic cliff" by being more student centered, and focusing on broad mission of higher education.
Who will lead your institution in the future?
How "loot boxes" in children's video games can lead to gambling problems
Who will lead your institution in the future?
With more turnover in university leadership and increasing mistrust between faculty and leaders at high levels, Jason Osborne of Miami University explores what factors faculty might want to consider when feeling dissatisfied with their campus leadership- and what unintended consequences might adversely impact the institution - and individual faculty themselves- if they are experiencing frequent leader turnover.
How to stimulate Interdisciplinary research
Jason Osborne on how higher education leaders can support faculty
Who will lead your institution in the future?
As the world faces more complex challenges, we need interdisciplinary approaches and interdisciplinary degree programs. Yet even in 2023, higher education remains traditional and truly interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary projects, degrees, and research can be challenging. In this article, I review strategies that can improve collaboration across silos and encourage multidisciplinary projects. These include investing support in interdisciplinary projects, ensuring policies and practices value these types of publications and projects, reviewing promotion and tenure processes to ensure that is not a barrier, and ensuring leaders explicitly support interdisciplinary degrees, projects, and funding.
Challenges facing higher education
Jason Osborne on how higher education leaders can support faculty
Jason Osborne on how higher education leaders can support faculty
Higher education in the US in 2023 faces challenges that reflect global pressures and internal stressors. While working as Provost and in other HE leadership positions, I’ve seen the speed at which challenges have been coming for educational institutions in the US. Some, like the COVID-19 pandemic, were utterly unpredictable. Others, like the “demographic cliff” and reduced public funding for higher education, have been ongoing for decades. Yet it seems as though the rate of change has increased exponentially over the last decade or so, particularly since the pandemic hit.
Higher education faces many simultaneous, serious challenges. Yet as my colleague Brent Shock and I discuss in our recent Inside Higher Ed article, none of them are insurmountable if institutions are strategic and focus on their core mission and values. Let’s talk about a few that have been top of mind recently.
Jason Osborne on how higher education leaders can support faculty
Jason Osborne on how higher education leaders can support faculty
Jason Osborne on how higher education leaders can support faculty
In this interview, Jason Osborne, former provost at Miami University, reviews nine recommendations for how institutions and leaders can support faculty in reducing burnout and improving wellness. We’re going to look at faculty’s stress and burnout levels from a different angle: what institutions can do to help. The onus should not solely be on faculty to take care of themselves when systemic changes need to occur. While everyone has their plates full with competing demands, some simple actions can be taken to reduce burnout and create a culture of wellness throughout the institution.
Universities are not ready for sport betting and athletes are at risk
Universities are not ready for sport betting and athletes are at risk
Universities are not ready for sport betting and athletes are at risk
About two weeks after sports betting became legal in Ohio on Jan. 1, 2023, someone, disappointed by an unexpected loss of the University of Dayton men’s basketball team to Virginia Commonwealth University, made threats and left disparaging messages against Dayton athletes and the coaching staff. The Ohio case is by no means isolated. In 2019, a Babson College student who was a “prolific sports gambler” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sending death threats to at least 45 professional and collegiate athletes in 2017. Faculty members of Miami University’s Institute for Responsible Gaming, Lottery, and Sports are concerned that the increasing prevalence of sports betting could potentially lead to more such incidents, putting more athletes in danger of threats from disgruntled gamblers who blame them for their gambling losses.
Jason's books
Books published by Jason Osborne
1. Regression and Linear Modeling: Best practices and modern methods. Thousand Oaks, CA. SAGE Publishing. (2017)
2. Exploratory Factor Analysis using SAS Best practices and modern methods. Cary, NC. SAS Publishing. (2016)
3. Best practices in logistic regression. Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publishing. (2015)
4. Best Practices in Exploratory Factor Analysis, Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing. (2014)
5. Sweating the small stuff: Does data cleaning and testing of assumptions really matter in the 21st century? Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Research Foundation (2013)
6. Best practices in data cleaning: A complete guide to everything you need to do before and after collecting your data. (2013)
7. Best practices in quantitative methods. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage publishing (2008).
Best practices in quantitative methods
Frequently cited articles by Jason Osborne
Jason W Osborne has served learners, readers and peers within many fields, including psychology, education and evaluation of data and statistics. Jason W Osborne has been cited in over 37,000 publications (counted by Google Scholar) reaching academics around the world through his many books and peer-reviewed publications. Every article is listed here, but the below list should explain the effectiveness of Jason W Osborne’s scholarship and communication skills.
Most cited articles
1. Best Practices In Exploratory Factor Analysis: Four Recommendations For Getting The Most From Your Analysis (2005) with co-author Anna B. Costello.
2. Explaining new options for data analysis, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the new procedures in Best Practices In Quantitative Methods (2008)
3. Four Assumptions Of Multiple Regression That Researchers Should Always Test (2002) with co-author E. Waters.
4. Summarizing the various potential causes of extreme scores in a data set in The Power Of Outliers (And Why Researchers Should Always Check For Them) (2004) with co-author Amy Overbay.
5. Improving Your Data Transformations: Applying The Box-Cox Transformation (2010)
6. Sample Size and Subject To Item Ratio In Principal Components Analysis (2004) co-authored with Anna B Costello.
7. Applying focus on the use of three data transformations most discussed in statistics texts (square root, log, and inverse) for improving the normality of variables outlined in Notes On The Use Of Data Transformations (2002)
8. Best Practices In Data Cleaning: A Complete Guide To Everything You Need To Do Before And After Collecting Your Data (2013)
9. Best Practices in Exploratory Factor Analysis (2014).
10. Is Inquiry Possible In Light Of Accountability? A Quantitative Comparison Of The Relative Effectiveness Of Guided Inquiry And Verification Laboratory Instruction (2010) along with Margaret R Blanchard, Sherry A Southerland, Victor D Sampson, Leonard A Annetta and Ellen M Granger.