Research and Publications

Books

Removing College Price Barriers: What Government Has Done and Why It Hasn't Worked (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1996).

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Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

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(with Lawrence Gladieux, Jacqueline King, and Melanie Corrigan) “The Federal Government and Higher Education” in Michael Bastedo, Philip G. Altbach, and Patricia J. Gumport,  (eds.) American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century:  Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, 3rd edition, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Pps 212 - 237.

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(with Melissa L. Freeman) “The Continuing Paradox of Public College Tuition Inflation” in Donald Heller (ed.) The States and Public Higher Education Policy: Affordability, Access, and Accountability, second edition (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).  Pps. 37-60.

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(with Lawrence Gladieux, Jacqueline King, and Melanie Corrigan) “The Federal Government and Higher Education” in Philip G. Altbach, Robert O. Berdahl, and Patricia J. Gumport,  (eds.) American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century:  Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, 2nd edition, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Pps 15-37.

(with Melissa Freeman) “The Causes and Consequences of Public College Tuition Inflation” in Cheryl Lovell, Toni Larson, Diane Dean, & David Longanecker (eds.), Public Policy and Higher Education, second edition. Pps. 402-434.  Boston, MA: ASHE Reader Series, Pearson (2010).  This chapter was reprinted from Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research, by Jonathan Smart (ed.) Norwell, MA: Springer (2005). Pps. 307-361.

“Three Generations of College Access Policy” in WISCAPE, Proceedings from Affordability and Access in American Higher Education in the 21st Century (Madison WI: Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, (2006). Pps. 5-16.

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“The Changing Politics of College Access in the United States” in Geoff Layer (ed.) Closing the Equity Gap: The impact of widening participation strategies in the UK and the USA (Leicester U.K.: The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2005).  Pps. 51-80. 

(with Melissa L. Freeman) “The Causes and Consequences of Public College Tuition Inflation” in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume XX (New York: Agathon Press, 2005). Pps 307-361.

 “The Future of College Access: The Declining Role of Public Higher Education in Promoting Equal Opportunity” in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, (Volume 585, January 2003). Pps 97-117.

“Does Policy Design Matter?  Comparing Universal and Targeted Approaches to Encouraging College Participation” in Educational Policy (Volume 17:1, 2003). Pps. 38-59.

 “State Efforts to Control Public College Prices in the Face of Fiscal Stress” reprinted with a new “Epilogue” in John Smart and Michael Paulson (eds.) The Finance of Higher Education: Theory, Research, Policy & Practice, (New York:  Agathon Press, 2001). This chapter first appeared in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume XIII (New York: Agathon Press, 1997). Pps. 321-354.

“The Paradox of College Prices:  Five Stories with No Clear Lesson” in Donald Heller (ed.) The States and Public Higher Education Policy: Affordability, Access, and Accountability, (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Pps. 39-63.

“The Student Aid Industry” in Jacqueline King (ed.) Financing a College Education: How It Works, How It’s Changing (Phoenix: American Council on Education/Oryx Press, 1999). Pps. 64-78.

“Beyond Financial Aid: Alternative Approaches to Improving College Participation” in Review of Higher Education. Vol. 22, No. 1 (Fall 1998). Pps. 83-98.

 “State Efforts to Control Public College Prices in the Face of Fiscal Stress” in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume XIII (New York: Agathon Press, 1997). Pps 139-174.

“An Exploration of Direct Lending Implementation Costs" in The Journal of Student Financial  Aid Vol. 27, No. 2 (Spring 1997).  Pps 21-34.

“Enacting National Service and Student Loan Reform: What Really Happened” in The Journal of Student Financial Aid Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter 1996).  Pps. 45-53.

“State Responses to Increases in Public College Prices: An Analysis of Developments Since   1990" Monograph #94-11 (1994), Institute for Higher Education Law, Finance, and      Governance,  University of Houston Law Center, Houston Texas.

"The Affordability of Public Higher Education: 1970-1990" in Review of Higher Education Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 1993).  Pps. 157-180.

(with Jeremy Anderson) "Maintaining Public College Affordability in the 1980s: How Did The States Do? in The Journal of Education Finance Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 1993).  Pps. 183-199.

"The Problem of College Affordability: A Review of Potential Remedies" in Journal of Student Financial Aid Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 1993).  Pps.  35-47.

“The Costs and Consequences of the Transformation in Federal Student Aid Policy” in Foundations of American Higher Education: A Reader, (1991).  James Bess, David Webster, and Bruce Anthony Jones (eds.) Association for the Study of Higher Education Readers Series, Washington D.C. Pps. 694-709.   

"The Transformation of Federal Aid to College Students: Dynamics of Growth and Retrenchment" in The Journal of Education Finance, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Winter 1991). Pps. 315-331.

"Evaluating the Stafford Student Loan Program: Current Problems and Prospects for Reform" in The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 62, No. 1 (January/February 1991). Pps. 62-78.

"Politics, Economics, and School Reform: An Essay Review" in Urban Education, Vol. 23, No. 2 (July 1988).  Pps. 208-214.

"Poverty, Work, and Social Policy" in Polity Vol. XIX, No. 4 (Summer 1987). Pps. 678-692.

"Understanding Policy Agendas: An Essay Review" in Social Science Journal Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter 1987).  Pps. 82-87.

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"The President and Domestic Policy-Making" in Congress and the President Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1985). Pps. 75-81.

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"Faculty and the State Policy Process:  The Uses and Limits of Advisory Committees" The Journal of Higher Education Vol. 54, No. 3 (May/June 1983). Pps. 294-308.

(with Eric M. Uslaner) "The Bucks Stop Here:  The Politics of Inflation in the United States" in Richard Medley (ed.) The Politics of Inflation: A Comparative Analysis (New York: Pergamon Policy Studies Series 1982).  Pps. 104-126.