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Marilyn Amey is Professor and Chair of Higher, Adult, and 
Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on leadership issues, postsecondary governance and administration issues, faculty concerns including improving teaching and learning, and community college contexts. Her current projects involve work on a national study of those who teach in student affairs/higher education graduation programs, university-based leadership development programs, and K-14 partnerships. She is co-author of Bringing Out of the Box: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Faculty Work and guest editor of a special issue of The Community College Journal of Research and Practice on leadership as learning. She is a NASPA Faculty Fellow and a Faculty Fellow for Organizational Development in the Provost's Office of Michigan State University.
David P. Baker is the Harry and Marion Eberly Professor of 
Comparative Education, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State University. His areas of expertise include public policy, sociology of education, cross-national analyses of school organization, and comparative study of institutional change. In 2003-2004 he served as a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and is the recipient of several other awards from academic organizations. He has published widely on education, including National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling (with Gerald LeTendre). Most recently, he has finished The Lion and the Swoosh: Universities, Big Corporations, and the People who make our Clothes (with N. Chhetri) on university athletics and sweatshop manufacturing in developing countries. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University.
Cynthia Baldwin is chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees 
and is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities. She is the first African American female judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Baldwin holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English and American Literature from Penn State and a J.D. from Duquesne University. She has taught and lectured widely on family law, constitutional law and jurisprudence and is extremely active in the community, having served on several non-profit and government-appointed boards. In May 2003, the Mental Health Association of Allegheny County awarded her the 2003 Espirit Children's Service Award and was named the Forum on Black Affairs Person of the Year for 2005. Baldwin has previously worked in private practice and for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar in 1994 and lectured at the University of Zimbabwe and she has taught in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, and China.
William L. Boyd is Batschelet Chair Professor of Educational 
Leadership at Penn State. His research focuses on educational leadership and education policy and politics. He has served as president of the Politics of Education Association, as an officer of the American Educational Research Association, and has been a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in Australia and England. As a researcher, successively, for the National Center on School Leadership, the National Center on Education in the Inner Cities, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory for Student Success, and the Center for School Change, he has studied school effectiveness; efforts to achieve coordinated, school-linked services for at-risk children and their families; and the politics and effects of school choice policies in education. In November 2002, he received the Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Council for Educational Administration. Boyd earned his Ph.D. in education at the University of Chicago.
Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of 
California, Riverside, and Director of the Colleges and Universities 2000 Study. Brint is an authority on comparative education, American higher education, the sociology of professions, and middle-class politics. He is the author of three books: The Diverted Dream (winner of two national awards), In an Age of Experts , and Schools and Societies and editor of The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University. He joined the sociology faculty at the University of California, Riverside in 1993 after teaching at Yale University. He has served as a member of the Spencer Foundation's Program Advisory Committee. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1982.
Jeremy Cohen is Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Chair of the Intercollege Bachelor 
of Philosophy program, and Professor of Communications at Penn State. Cohen's current scholarship is focused on relations among democratic engagement, communication, and education and includes current editorship of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator and past editorship of Journal of General Education. A widely published scholar on First Amendment law and on the pedagogy and learning implications of public scholarship, Cohen founded and chairs Penn State's Faculty Public Scholarship Associates. Cohen was elected to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's (AEJMC ) standing committee on Teaching Standards in 2000. He is author of Congress Shall Make No Law and co-author of Social Research in Communication and Law. He completed his Ph.D. in communication at the University of Washington and was a tenured faculty member at Stanford University before joining Penn State in 1994.
Carol Colbeck is Director and Senior Research Associate in 
the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Associate Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. Her research investigates how social and organizational contexts shape academic in how faculty integrate teaching, research, and service; how state, institutional, and departmental policies influence the nature and characteristics of faculty work; how faculty teaching and organizational climate affect student learning; and how faculty balance professional and personal responsibilities. Since 1996, she has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator of six research projects funded for a total of $2.8 million by the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Education, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the US Marine Corps. Her areas of expertise include faculty work, organizational theory applied to higher education, and curricular reform. She earned a Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis/Higher Education in 1996 from Stanford University.
Nancy Diamond is Visiting Assistant Professor of the History 
and Research Scientist, Center for Public Policy at Temple University. She is co-author (with Hugh Davis Graham) of The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era (Johns Hopkins, 1997) and of other scholarly articles. She has served as a reviewer for the National Research Council forthcoming assessment of academic programs. Currently she is the principal investigator for a study, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, about the experience of women faculty and administrators since the 1970s. She earned a Ph.D. in Policy Sciences in 2000 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
David D. Dill is Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1984-94 he also served
as Assistant to the Chancellor for Planning at UNC-CH. He has been a Visiting Professor/Fellow at Cambridge and Manchester Universities in the UK as well as the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His most recent books are Emerging Social Demands and University Reform: Through a Glass Darkly (with Barbara Sporn) and Planning and Management for a Changing Environment: A Handbook on Redesigning Postsecondary Institutions (with Marvin Peterson and Lisa Mets). He serves as executive editor of Quality in Higher Education and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Higher Education Policy . His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis, higher education policy, and the organization and management of academic institutions. He is Director of the Research Program on Public Policy for Academic Quality (PPAQ) a study of national quality assurance policies in higher education supported by the Ford Foundation.
Michael J. Dooris is Director of Planning, Research and 
Assessment in the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Higher Education Planning at Penn State. He provides analytic support within the office of the provost for university-level strategic planning and quality improvement. Dooris has been at Penn State since 1981 in several positions, including in the university budget office and in academic affairs. He previously worked as a statistician for the U.S. Census Bureau and as management consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. He teaches courses on financial issues, organization theory, administration, and institutional research. He is principal researcher on a current Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant and has published in numerous higher education journals. Dooris earned his Ph.D. in higher education from Penn State in 1992 and holds an MBA from the University of Rhode Island, and BS in economics from Penn State.
Dorothy Evensen is Senior Research Associate in the 
Center for the Study of Higher Education and Associate Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. Her research projects focus on teaching and learning in professional contexts, particularly law and medicine. She recently has completed a three-year study of group learning in law schools funded by the Law School Admission Council. Professor Evensen teaches courses in qualitative research, college teaching, and dissertation writing. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from New York University, and was a Spencer postdoctoral fellow.
James S. Fairweather is professor of Higher, Adult, and 
Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. His interests lie in research design and policy analysis, faculty roles and rewards, industry university partnerships, assessing the quality of academic programs, and reforming undergraduate engineering education. His latest research, funded by the NSF, is to help establish the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning. Fairweather, the author of Faculty Work and Public Trust, holds the AERA Division J Career Research Excellence Award, is past chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Higher Education , and recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2004. He holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Stanford University.
Irwin Feller is Senior Visiting Scientist, American 
Association for the Advancement of Science and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Penn State. His areas of interest include science and technology policy, economics of higher education and program evaluation. He has published extensively on organizational and economic aspects of university technology transfer programs, and the competitive structure of the American research university system. His current research projects relate to performance indicators for basic research, interdisciplinarity in research universities, and earmarking of federal academic research funds. He currently chairs the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee to the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and the National Research Council's Committee to Assess the Vitality of the Behavioral and Social Sciences with Respect to Aging.
Roger L. Geiger is Senior Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher Education, Professor-in-Charge and 
Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. His study, Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace was recently published by Stanford University Press (2004). His volumes on American research universities in the 20 th century, To Advance Knowledge: the Development of American Research Universities, 1900-1940 and Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities Since World War II, were published in new editions by Transaction Publishers (2004). In 2000 he published The American College in the Nineteenth Century. He has edited The History of Higher Education Annual since 1993, and is Senior Associate Editor of The American Journal of Education. Geiger is Principal Investigator for an interdisciplinary NSF project: “Nanotechnology and Its Publics,” which is examining public opinion, state policies, and commercialization. Geiger received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.
Nils Hasselmo is President of the Association of American 
Universities (AAU) and former President of the University of Minnesota. He served as president of the University of Minnesota from 1989 to 1997, before becoming president of the AAU. From 1965 to 1983, Hasselmo served as a faculty member and in a variety of administrative positions at the University of Minnesota, before becoming provost at the University of Arizona. A native of Sweden, Hasselmo completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Scandinavian languages and literature at Uppsala University, then as an international student in 1956-57 a B.A. at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1961, he earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University. His scholarly work has focused on the study of bilingualism and language contact. Hasselmo has served as chair of a number of national higher education, academic, civic, and cultural committees and organizations. Hasselmo has been the recipient of honors such as the Royal Order of the North Star by the King of Sweden (1973), King Carl XVI Gustaf's Bicentennial Medal in Gold (1976), and the Sandburg Medal (1989). He holds honorary degrees from Uppsala University in Sweden and a couple of American colleges.
Donald E. Heller is Senior Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Associate
Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. His work focuses on higher education finance, tuition pricing, financial aid, and student access to college. Before his academic career, he spent a decade as an information technology manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the 2002 Promising Scholar/Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the 2001 Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. He is editor of The States and Public Higher Education Policy: Affordability, Access, and Accountability and Condition of Access: Higher Education for Lower Income Students. Heller holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an Ed.M. from Harvard and a B.A. from Tufts University in Economics and Political Science.
Robert Hendrickson is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, 
Research, and Faculty Development in the College of Education, Senior Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. He previously served as professor-in-charge the Higher Education Program and as Head of the Department of Education Policy Studies at Penn State. He has served in administrative and faculty capacities at several universities, including the faculty at the University of Virginia. He has published in the areas of organizational theory and governance, faculty employment issues and on the law and higher education. Hendrickson is author of The Colleges, their Constituencies, and the Courts . He has served on boards and committees for the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the Education Law Association. Hendrickson holds an Ed.D. in higher education with a minor in law from Indiana University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the State College Area School District and the Board of Trustees of Defiance College.
Sylvia Hurtado is Professor and Director of the Higher 
Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to coming to UCLA, she served as Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Hurtado's research has focused on student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact on student development, and diversity in higher education. She has served on numerous editorial boards for journals in education and served on the boards for the American Association of Higher Education, the Higher Learning Commission and is president-elect of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She obtained her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and A.B. from Princeton University in Sociology.
Stanley O. Ikenberry is Regent Professor and President Emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
former President of the American Council on Education (ACE). He served as president of the American Council on Education (ACE) from 1996 to 2001 and as President of the Board of Overseers TIAA-CREF since 2000. Ikenberry sits on the Advisory Council for the Center for Public Higher Education Trusteeship and Governance, based in Washington, D.C. At ACE his work focused on public attitudes about higher education, college costs and prices, access and equal opportunity including concerns for student aid, diversity and equality of opportunity and increasing influence of market forces on higher education decision making and policy formation. He served as president of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1979 to 1995. He was professor of higher education and vice president of administration at Penn State University. Ikenberry holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Michigan State University and a B.A. from Shepherd College.
Richard T. Ingram is President of the Association of 
Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB). He has served as president of AGB since 1992. Devoted to volunteer trustee education and board development in public and private higher education, AGB is a national organization in the service of college and university trustees, chief executives, and senior executive and academic officers totaling 34,000 individuals, 1800 institutions, and 1150 boards. Tom has served on the boards of two private institutions and other enterprises including an insurance company and a private school. He is an active writer in the field and has conducted scores of workshops to assist boards of trustees with self-studies of their effectiveness. His Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit boards for BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards founded by AGB) has sold more than 1 million copies. A native of the Pittsburgh area, Tom holds a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Maryland.
D. Bruce Johnstone is University Professor of Higher and Comparative Education, Director of the Center for 
Comparative and Global Studies in Education and of the International Comparative Student Finance and Accessibility Project at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His work specializes in higher education finance, governance, and policy formation, and in international and comparative higher education. Johnstone has held posts of vice president for administration at the University of Pennsylvania, president of the State University College of Buffalo, and chancellor of the State University of New York system. His books include Sharing the Costs of Higher Education: Student Financial Assistance in the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Sweden and the United States, The Funding of Higher Education: International Perspectives (with Philip Altbach), and In Defense of American Higher Education (with Altbach and Patricia Gumport). He holds a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Minnesota.
Lisa Lattuca is Research Associate in the Center for the 
Study of Higher Education and Assistant Professor of Higher Education Program at Penn State. Her research focuses on postsecondary curricula, teaching, and learning; interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge production; and the influence of academic disciplines on faculty work. She is the author of Creating Interdisciplinarity:Interdisciplinary Research among College and University Faculty (2001), and co-author (with Joan Stark) of Shaping the College Curriculum: Academic Plans in Action (1997). In addition, she is co-editor of a forthcoming volume, Advancing Faculty Learning through Interdisciplinary Collaboration . Lattuca is project director and co-principal investigator for a national study of the impact of new outcomes-based accreditation standards on the education and preparation of undergraduate engineers. She is also co-principal investigator of an NSF-commissioned study of faculty projects to improve engineering and science education. Her related work experiences include service as a program officer with the Spencer Foundation and six years as a college administrator.
Beverly Lindsay is Senior Scientist in the Center for the Study 
of Higher Education and Professor of Education at Penn State. Lindsay has served as a Senior Fulbright Specialist at the Institute for Peace, Leadership, and Governance and at Africa University in Zimbabwe. She has also served as a Fulbright Fellow to South Korea and has served as Executive Fellow at the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy. Lindsay was formerly Dean of the University Office of International Programs at Penn State, Dean of International Education and Policy Studies at Hampton University, as an administrator and professor at the University of Georgia, and as a senior administrator in U.S. Departments of State and Education. Lindsay is the editor of The Quest for Equity in Higher Education (with Manuel Justiz). Lindsay earned her Ph.D. from American University.
David H. Monk is professor of educational administration and 
dean of the College of Education at Penn State University. He earned his A.B. in 1972 at Dartmouth College, his Ph.D. in 1979 at the University of Chicago, and was a member of the Cornell University faculty for 20 years prior to becoming dean at Penn State in 1999. Monk is the author of Educational Finance: An Economic Approach ; Raising Money for Education: A Guide to the Property Tax (with Brian O. Brent); and Cost Adjustments in Education (with William J. Fowler, Jr.) in addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals. He is a co-editor for Education Finance and Policy and Leadership and Policy in Schools. He also serves on the editorial boards of several major journals. He consults widely on matters related to educational productivity and the organizational structuring of schools and school districts and is a Past President of the American Education Finance Association.
David Post is Senior Research Associate in the Center for the 
Study of Higher Education and Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. His research focuses on state/society relationships in higher education governance as they are manifest in the higher education systems of Latin America and East Asia , comparative and international education, and children's schooling and well-being. He currently serves as co-editor of Comparative Education Review . He has served as a Fulbright-Hayes Research Scholar in Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Prior to coming to Penn State, he was at the University of California-Riverside. He also has had research appointments in Mexico City, Lima, and Hong Kong. Post earned his Ph.D. in education at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Judith A. Ramaley holds a presidential professorship in biomedical sciences at the University of Maine, is a Fellow of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy and is 
Visiting Senior Scientist at the National Academy of Sciences. From 2001-2004, she was Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR) at The National Science Foundation, which is responsible for the health and continued vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and for providing leadership in the effort to improve education in these fields. Prior to joining NSF, Ramaley was President and professor of biology at The University of Vermont (1997 – 2001) and president and professor of biology at Portland State University (Oregon). She has held academic and administrative positions at the University of Nebraska, the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Kansas. Ramaley received her bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Robert D. Reason is Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education, Professor-in-Charge of the 
College Student Affairs program, and Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. Concerned about student outcomes and success, Reason studies student development in college environments, specifically related to the development of social justice attitudes. His research also focuses on learning and developmental outcomes during the first year of college. Reason coordinates the curriculum for the Summer Assessment Institutes for CSHE. He has conducted numerous assessment projects as an internal and external consulted, teaches courses on assessment in student affairs, and presents on the topic nationally. He holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Iowa State University, an M.S., Counseling and Student Personnel, Mankato State University, and a B.S., Economics, Grinnell College.
Gary Rhoades is Professor of Higher Education and 
Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on professions, organizational restructuring, and policy in higher education, in the U.S. and comparatively. His work intersects considerations of power and political economy in higher education with those of the academy's social functions and stratification, addressing what interests are served by changing configurations of professional orientation and employment, organizational structure, and policy including studies of the rise of new categories of managerial professionals and of graduate student unionization. His books include Managed Professionals and Academic Capitalism and the New Economy (with Sheila Slaughter). His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are all in Sociology from UCLA.
Graham Spanier is President of The Pennsylvania State 
University, former Chair of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities. Since he was appointed Penn State's 16th president in 1995, Dr. Spanier has been the guiding force behind several historic academic initiatives, including the creation of The Schreyer Honors College, the Penn State World Campus, and the School of Information Sciences and Technology. He is a magician and faculty adviser to the Penn State Performing Magicians, has performed with Penn State's Musical Theatre students, the Blue Band, and the Glee Club. He often substitutes for the Nittany Lion mascot. Prior to becoming president of Penn State, Dr. Spanier served in administrative positions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oregon State University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He previously served Penn State from 1973-1982 as a member of the faculty and in three administrative positions. He holds academic appointments as professor of human development and family studies, sociology, demography, and family and community medicine. A national leader in higher education, Dr. Spanier has served in numerous leadership positions in national higher education organizations including the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Big Ten Conference Council of Presidents/Chancellors, and the NCAA Division I Board of Directors. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University, and his bachelor's and master's degrees from Iowa State University.
Jacqueline A. Stefkovich is Head of The Department of 
Education Policy Studies and Professor of Education at Penn State. She teaches courses related to school law and ethics. Before coming to Penn State, she was a professor at Temple University and coordinator of the Educational Administration program. She is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. She is the author of Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas (with Joan Poliner Shapiro) and has written a textbook on law and education, which is due for release in March 2005. She holds a doctoral degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Dr. Stefkovich frequently presents papers at professional conferences and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.
Patrick T. Terenzini is Senior Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Distinguished Professor of
Education at Penn State. He is co-author (with Ernest T. Pascarella) of How College Affects Students , an award-winning synthesis of research on the impacts of the college experience on students. The second volume will be published in early 2005. Terenzini studies the effects of college on student learning and development, persistence and educational attainment, and the college experience and outcomes for low-income and first-generation students. He has served as editor-in-chief of New Directions for Institutional Research, associate editor of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, editorial board member for The Review of Higher Education, and consulting editor for Research in Higher Education. He has received numerous research awards from national academic associations and is a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher education.
William Toombs is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at 
Penn State. A director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education from 1981 to 1986, he had served as assistant director and professor-in-charge of the Higher Education Program. Before coming to Penn State in 1971 he held appointments at the University of Michigan, Drexel University, and Northwestern. His published research focused on faculty roles and professional development, curriculum design, and graduate education. A parallel career of Naval Service, frequent in his college cohort, led to retirement as a Captain. Toombs earned a B.S. at West Chester State University, an A.M. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in higher education at the University of Michigan.
Vicky L. Triponey is Vice President for Student Affairs at Penn 
State University. She previously served as vice chancellor at the University of Connecticut (1998 – 2003) and in a number of roles at Wichita State University (1989 – 1998), including interim vice president for student affairs. Triponey has won numerous awards during her career in student affairs, and has been involved at the national level in a number of higher education organizations. She is past chair of the Council of Student Affairs for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), and served a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). Triponey is a native Pennsylvanian and holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, a M.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Virginia.
Roger Williams is Executive Director, Penn State Alumni Association, and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Penn State. Williams is a a graduate of Penn State ('73, '75 MA, '88 DEd) and has more than 25 years of higher education communications, public relations, and marketing experience. He has served as the chief public relations officer at three major research universities, including nine years as assistant vice president and executive director of university relations at Penn State. Williams previously worked at the University of Arkansas, and held the position of associate vice chancellor for university relations. He was the associate vice president for communications at Georgetown University from 1995-1996. Williams' book, The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement, was drawn from his doctoral thesis, which won the 1989 dissertation-of-the-year award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.