Dr. Amanda Jandris
Dean
As Dean of Research and Doctoral Studies, Dr. Amanda Jandris provides strategic and academic leadership for doctoral education across the American InterContinental University System. She oversees doctoral programs serving learners across multiple disciplines and leads the development of policies, processes, curricula, and academic support structures designed to promote doctoral student success and high-quality, ethical research.
Dr. Jandris has more than 20 years of experience in higher education as an administrator, professor, researcher, dissertation advisor, and Institutional Review Board leader. Before joining AIUS, she served as Chair of the Department of Doctoral Research at American College of Education, where she provided leadership for doctoral programs, research-methods curricula, dissertation processes, faculty supervision, and program assessment. Earlier in her career, Dr. Jandris spent 17 years at Concordia University Chicago, where she was a tenured full professor of research and held several academic leadership positions, including Executive Director of Doctoral Programs, Department Chair, Director of Academic Research, and Director of Human Subjects Research Compliance.
At AIUS, Dr. Jandris also serves as the Institutional Officer for the System’s Institutional Review Board and as Editor in Chief of the AIUS Journal of Research & Scholarship.
Areas of Expertise
- Doctoral education and dissertation supervision
- Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research
- Research design, measurement, survey development, and advanced statistics
- Human-subjects research protections and Institutional Review Board administration
- Doctoral program development, evaluation, and continuous improvement
- Online graduate education and research-methods pedagogy
- Curriculum development and assessment
- Faculty development, mentoring, and supervision
- Data-informed decision-making and institutional research
- Academic publishing, scholarly writing, and research-quality assurance
- Program evaluation and organizational research climate
- Professional and practice-based doctoral education
Education History
- Ph.D. in Research Methodology from Loyola University Chicago
- M.A. in Secondary Education from Saint Xavier University, Chicago
- B.S. in Biology and Natural Resources from Principia College, Elsah, IL
