Dissertation: "Political Control of State Universities: The Effect of Political Control of State Research University on Quality and Funding"   A highly condensed version can be found here.

Recent Talks
- Some Observations About Going (or Sending Someone) to College: Why is it getting so expensive? Where should I go? How do I get in? Given at the Evansville Rotary Club on December 26th 2006.

Working Papers

- Grade Inflation, Real or Imagined? A Study of University of California Grades and Student Quality Over Time, California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, November 2004.

- Grade Inflation, Reality or Artifact of Changes in Student Quality or Major Distribution? A Study of University of California Grades and Student Quality Over Time, Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, May-June 2005

Recent Publications

- AP Units and UC Time to Degree
- Where Does All the Money Go? California State Finance

2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998 “University of California, An Enrollment Handbook,” 3rd through 9th Editions. University of California, Planning and Analysis, University of California, Office of the President.

1999 "Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollment Planning Through 2010: Modeling Undergraduate Enrollment Demand," University of California, Planning and Analysis, University of California, Office of the President.

1997 “Internal SAT Validity Study: California Students Enrolled at UC Campuses 1994,” University of California, Student Academic Services, University of California, Office of the President.

1997 “Information Digest,” University of California, Student Academic Services, University of California, Office of the President.

Conferences and Papers

2005 Grade Inflation, Reality or Artifact of Changes in Student Quality or Major Distribution? A Study of University of California Grades and Student Quality Over Time, Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, May 2005

2004 Grade Inflation, Real or Imagined? A Study of University of California Grades and Student Quality Over Time, California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California.

2003 Where Does All the Money Go? – An Analysis of Tax Revenue and Expenditure Structure in California and Other States As It Relates to Higher Education,” California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Rohnert Park, California.

2003 “The Effect of Advanced Placement Credit on Time to Degree at the University of California” Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Tampa Bay, Florida.

2003 Society for College and University Planning Workshop on Integrated Planning and Budgeting, San Diego, California.

2002 “The Effect of Advanced Placement Credit on Time to Degree at the University of California” California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Pasadena, California. (best paper)

2001 California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California.

2000 Co-Presented “Thinking in Future Tense: Designing the New Architecture of Student Life at UC Merced,” final report of the UC Merced Student Planning Committee to UC Merced Chancellor and officers.

2000 UC Planning and Budget Conference, Lake Arrowhead, California.

1999 California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California.

1999 Association for Institutional Research, Statistics Institute, Santa Barbara, California.

1998 California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, California Presented paper entitled “Modeling Long Range Enrollment Demand,” with Dr. Paul Butler-Nailin.

1998 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

1998 Association for Institutional Research, Information Technology Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1997 California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Presented information on USNWR coordination efforts by the University of California.

1993 American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

Presented paper entitled “The Effect of Structural Differences in the Relationship Between State Governments and Their Research Universities” for the Panel “Prescriptions for Policy Excellence.”