Presentations
- “International Trends in Measuring College and University Performance,” International Conference on Institutional Research and Higher Education Finance, Washington, D.C., November 2000
- “Constructing and Assessing Performance Measures for Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study of Illinois,” Annual Conference of the Association of Institutional Researchers, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2000
- “Public Education and Religion: The Constitutional Restrictions,” Annual Conference of Sport Law and Exercise Science,” Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2000
- “The Privatization of Public Universities,” Know Your University Forum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2000
- “Community College Student Financial Aid Issue,” University Interest Group on Leadership Development for Two-Year Institutions of Higher Education, Second National Conclave, Allerton Park, University of Illinois, June 1999
- “Higher Education at the End of the Century: the Good, the Bad and the Bewildering,” Keynote Address, University of Illinois Staff Development Conference, May 1999
- “The Endless Pursuit of Efficiency: Accountability and Performance in Higher Education,” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Miami, Florida, November 1998
- “The Wealth of Universities: How Government Policy Augments Fiscal Disparities Between Public and Private Institutions,” presentation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs Finance and Economics Ad Hoc Committee, October 1998
- “State Financing of Student Choice: Hard Policy Lessons from Higher Education,” Higher Education Policy Briefing to the Illinois Community College Trustees Association, Springfield, Illinois, June 1998
- “Beyond Speculation: Empirical Support for Four Competing Hypotheses to Explain Students’ Negative Evaluations of Advising in Research Universities,” Association of Institutional Researchers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1998
- “Financing Student Choice in Postsecondary Education: Who Gains? Who Loses?” Higher Education Policy Briefing to the Illinois Council of Community College Presidents, March 1998
- “The Oxford/Cambridge Residential College Model,” National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1998
- “Using Residential Colleges to Enhance Student Learning,” American College Personnel Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1998
- “Realigning Faculty Work with Institutional Missions: Pew Project Team,” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 1997
- “An International Movement to Increase Access and Accountability,” American and Chinese Education Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1997
- “CIC and the Future of Postsecondary Education Opportunity in Western Kentucky,” presentation to the Governor’s Regional Advisory Committee, University of Kentucky, September 1997
- “Measuring Performance in Higher Education,” Oxford International Round Table on Educational Policy, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, August 1997
- “General Education Assessment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,” presentation to the University of Wisconsin System Universities, Madison, Wisconsin, May 1997.