DR. RAYMOND BARCLAY is the Associate Vice President/Director of Institutional Research at the College of Charleston. Previously, Dr. Barclay has served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Research and Planning at Western Carolina University (one of the 16 University of North Carolina campuses), Director of Institutional Research and Assessment and at the College of New Jersey, Policy and Planning Analyst at Burlington County College (NJ), and Director of Research and Planning at The Bonner Foundation, a Princeton-based national private foundation that supports programs engaged in service-learning, civic engagement, student development, and community-based research at 50+ colleges and universities nationally (e.g., Davidson College, Richmond University, Oberlin College, University of Denver, etc.).

Dr. Barclay founded the Institute for Education Design, Evaluation & Assessment (IeDEA) as a partnership between the Office of Institutional Research and the School of Education at the College of New Jersey. IeDEA was awarded several grants and contracts for the purpose of assisting the New Jersey Department of Education - Office of Licensure and Credentials' (NJDOE-OLC) undertake assessment and evaluation work.

Dr. Barclay has 12+ years of assessment and research experience that includes designing and implementing a decentralized portfolio assessment framework across the Bonner Foundation’s network of schools, developing progressive institution-specific frameworks such as those addressing enrollment management, data stewardship and security, planning and budgeting, institutional effectiveness, transformative curriculum requirements across various pedagogies (performing arts, sciences, and education), and program-specific competency assessments (business, sciences, etc). Dr. Barclay has played a key role in shaping broadly and undertaking original assessment work aimed at addressing accreditation and accountability requirements such as those found in the Higher Education Opportunity Act, regional accreditation processes (Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools,), and other specialized accreditations (NCATE, ABET, etc.).

Dr. Barclay has taught psychological testing, psychology, and public policy courses. He completed his Ph.D. in educational psychology with a focus in learning and cognition, program evaluation, and measurement at Temple University. His research interests include cognition, problem solving, structural equation modeling, and survey development. He also holds an MDIV from Princeton Theological Seminary, undertook academic work at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University, and holds a BA (Summa Cum Laude) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he double majored in philosophy of science and minored in Anthropology.