Paul W. Eykamp, Ph.D.
Biography
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Dr. Paul Eykamp, Coordinator of Long Range Enrollment Analysis and Database Development, has worked at the UC Office of the President since 1996, serving in the offices of Student Academic Services (Admissions) and Planning and Analysis. His work focuses on policy development based on data analysis and forecasting including work on demography and student behavior. Paul has been with the University since 1987 when he started the Political Science Ph.D. program at UC San Diego. His research focus is higher education public policy, including the effect of organizational structure on the quality of state research universities and on the price elasticity of demand for selective institutions.

While at UCSD he was three times Vice President of the Graduate Student Association, three times Vice Chair of the University Centers Board, Registration Fee Committee Chair, Director of ASUCSD Television Productions, a Residential Advisor and a Teaching Assistant. He also served a number of University committees including search committees for Deans, building and master planning committees, admissions policy, and graduate planning.

Prior to UCSD he attended Washington University in St. Louis where he double majored in Economics and Political Economy (cum laude), and minored in Anthropology after two years of being a Pre-Medical student. He was vice president and president of the residence hall government (the Congress of the South Forty), Editor of the Yearbook, President of the Ski Club and a member of three honorary societies. Currently he is President of the UCSD Bay Area Regional Alumni Association, President and CEO of the Berkeley Housing Cooperative Inc., and is on the board of two other non-profits and the Washington University Bay Area Alumni Association. When not busy running things, he is skiing, hiking, camping, ballroom dancing or arguing about computers, security, 14th century mediaeval literature or the trials of biology experiments with about twenty-five friends every Thursday in Berkeley.

Education
1995 Ph.D. University of California, San Diego. Major fields: American Politics, International Relations.
1994 M.A. University of California, San Diego. Major: Political Science.
1987 Catholic University, Washington D.C., 12-unit summer graduate program in British politics.
1987 A.B. cum laude, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Majors: Economics and Political Economy, Advisor D. North, Nobel Laureate

Dissertation
"Political Control of State Research Universities: The Effect of the Structure of Political Control on University Quality and Funding" Advisor: Gary C. Jacobson, Professor.

 

Last updated  21 June 2005.  Copyright 1993-2005 by Dr Paul W. Eykamp