Portfolio

ACADEMIC PAPERS

* The Effectiveness of State Appropriations and Financial Aid on Improving Access to Higher Education (forthcoming – with Rob Toutkoushian)

* Examining Who Benefits from Tuition Discounts at Public Universities (forthcoming)

* Review of Merit Aid and the Politics of Education – by Eric Ness (subscription, with Don Hossler)

* What Matters in Student Loan Default: A Review of the Research Literature (forthcoming – with Jake Gross, Osman Cekic, and Don Hossler)

 * Understanding Indiana’s Reverse Transfer Students: a Case Study in Institutional Research (with Tim Lum and Don Hossler)

POLICY PAPERS
* What Matters to Student Loan Default and here (with Don Hossler, Jake Gross, Osman Cekic)
* Financially Preparing Low-Income Students for College
* Front and Center: Student Loans and Public Accountability
* Tuition Discounting at AASCU Institutions
* Student Debt Burden
* The Spellings Commission and the States
* State Colleges and Universities and the 2006 Elections

BLOG POSTS
* Don’t believe the hype!
* Good news for future public servants
* Pell Grants for kids?
* Challenges for first generation college students
* Neo-liberalism and the student loan industry
* Nonprofit service agencies doing more with less
* College shame list: politics vs. policy
* The college endowment arms race
* Majority of southern public school children live in poverty and here
* Exploiting rural America
* I see a bad moon rising
* Candidates need a preemptive strike against poverty
* Slow progress toward college access

OTHERS:
* IU News Room
* An Evening with Kevin Smith (DVD)
* Roosevelt Institution Senior Fellow
* AIR/NCES Graduate Fellow
* Community Kitchen of Monroe County
* NewsVine
* Our Garden!