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APPENDIX
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Biographical Sketches of
Pane! Members and Staff
BENJAMIN F. KING (Chair) is professor of decision sciences in the Col-
lege of Business at Florida Atlantic University. Previously, he has held
tenured faculty positions in the Graduate School of Business of the Univer-
sity of Chicago and the School of Business Administration and the Depart-
ment of Statistics at the University of Washington. He was the director of
survey methods at the Educational Testing Service. His research interests
include survey sampling, Bayesian methods, and general applications of
statistics to problems of business, public policy, and the law. He has been
an associate editor of applications and of reviews for the Journal of the
American Statistical Association and has served on two previous panels of
the Committee on National Statistics. He is a fellow of the American
Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
He has A.B., M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.
THOMAS J. BOARDMAN is on leave from Colorado State University,
where he is professor of statistics. He joined the university as an assistant
professor in 1968 and served as the professor-in-charge of its statistical
laboratory for over 10 years. He is co-director of its Center for Quality and
Productivity Improvement. His research interests have centered around
applying statistical thinking and methods to help people make better deci-
sions. Author of more than 80 technical papers, Boardman is a fellow of
both the American Society for Quality Control and the American Statistical
Association. In addition, he is an elected member of the International
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Statistical Institute. He currently serves on the board of directors of the
American Statistical Association. He was a reviewer for the Baldrige Na-
tional Quality Award, the U.S. counterpart of Japan's Deming Prize. He is a
member of a task force appointed by the governor of Colorado to create a
Colorado Quality Award. With Eileen Boardman, he is the author of the
Workbook for Quality Improvement and Statistical Thinking and several
other publications designed to be helpful to quality improvement teams.
Boardman holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in statistics from Rutgers Univer-
sity and a B.A. in mathematics from Bucknell University.
*JERRY S. DAVIS is vice president for research and policy analysis of the
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, a post he has held since
1981. He has an Ed.D. in higher education from the University of Georgia.
Davis has been doing research on student financial aid and related topics
since 1968 and has published extensively from positions with the College
Board, the Southern Regional Education Board, Brookdale Associates, the
National Task Force on Student Aid Problems (the Keppel Commission),
and other organizations. Since 1981, he has written the report on an annual
survey of state financial aid policies and practices for the National Associa-
tion of State Scholarship and Grant Programs. He currently chairs its re-
search committee and has chaired similar committees for the National Council
on Higher Education Loan Programs and the National Association of Stu-
dent Financial Aid Administrators.
RONALD S. FECSO serves as study director of the Panel on Quality Im-
provement in Student Financial Aid Programs. He received a B.A. in math-
ematics from Rider College and an M.A. in mathematical statistics from the
University of Rochester. He serves at the National Research Council through
an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment from his position as senior
research statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Survey design and research and the devel-
opment of quality improvement methodology are his major research inter-
ests. He enjoys teaching and serves on advisory committees for several
higher education institutions. Currently he is the program chair elect for
the Section on Survey Research Methods of the American Statistical Asso-
ciation and chair of the Quantitative Literacy Group and member of the
organizing committee of the annual Quality Assurance in the Government
Symposium of the Washington Statistical Society.
NATALA K. HART is director of the Office of Scholarships and Financial
Aid at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Previously,
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she was executive director of the State Student Assistance Commission of
Indiana (1989-91~; director of the division of financial aid at Purdue Uni-
versity (1985-89~; and vice president for student assistance services of the
College Board (1982-85~. She worked at the College Scholarship Service
from 1978 through 1981. She has B.A. and M.Ed. degrees from Ohio
University. Hart has been coordinator of a statewide effort since 1990 to
encourage access to higher education for disadvantaged students through
the College Goal Sunday project. She is currently a member of the Student
Loan Marketing Association Student Financial Aid Administrators Advisory
Panel and sits on the selection committee for Coca-Cola Scholars. She
served as governmental affairs commissioner for the National Association
of Student Financial Aid Administrators in 1990-91 and on the board of
directors of the National Association of Higher Education Loan Programs in
1989-91. She has been the recipient of a number of awards, among them
the President's Award (1985) and the Committee of the Year Award (1989,
1991) of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators,
and the Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana Student Financial
Aid Administrators ~ 19891.
WILLIAM J. HILL is director of research and technology at Allied-Signal,
Buffalo, New York. He is the research and technology quality officer. He is
on Allied-Signal's Corporate Quality Council. During 1991-92, he was the
first Emerson Professor of Quality and Productivity Improvement at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of its Center for Quality
and Productivity Improvement. He is a past recipient of the organization's
Shewhart Medal (1990) and the inaugural William G. Hunter award for his
contributions to quality technology and its transfer into practice. He is a
fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science. He received a B.S.E. in chemical
engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in statistics from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
LINDA INGRAM is a research associate with the Committee on National
Statistics. She received her M.A. from the University of Maryland and has
done doctoral work at American University in political science. She has
worked on several projects of the Committee on National Statistics in such
areas as poverty, disability, and the census.
SUBRAMANYAM KASALA (Consultant) is associate professor of statis-
tics at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He received B.S.
and M.S. degrees in statistics from S.V. University, Titupati, India, and a
Ph.D in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India. fIe
previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests
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have centered on asymptotic theory, multivariate analysis, nonlinear time
series analysis, and multivariate calibration theory.
FREDRICA D. KRAMER (Consultant) is a consultant in social welfare
policy in Washington, D.C., and works generally with government, public
policy, and research institutes. She served as the study director of the
National Research Council's Panel on Quality Control of Family Assistance
Programs. She has served as staff and consultant to the Research Council
on a range of issues, including persistent poverty, children at risk, deregula-
tion, and law enforcement and criminal justice. She received a B.A. in
political science from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.U.P
from Hunter College, City University of New York, and an M.P.A. from the
University of Southern California. She also has completed all but the dis-
sertation in public administration from the University of Southern Califor-
nia. She has worked in social welfare policy in state, local, and federal
governments and in Congress, specializing in welfare and employment policy,
service delivery and service integration issues, and persistent poverty.
GARY A. LORDEN is professor of mathematics and vice president for
student affairs at the California Institute of Technology. He received a B.S.
from Cal Tech and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University. Previ-
ously he taught at Northwestern University and, as visiting professor of
statistics, at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests
are in statistics and probability, especially sequential analysis, multistage
testing, and decision theory. He is a fellow of the Institute for Mathemati-
cal Statistics.
REBECCA A. MAYNARD is trustee professor of education and policy at
the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Wisconsin. Her current research includes two major federally
sponsored demonstration programs aimed at preparing youth for the work
force in 2000: the National Dropout Demonstration Assistance Programs,
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, and a Demonstration of
Innovative Services for Teenage Parents sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. Previous research has included evaluations
of major social welfare demonstrations and field experiments, including
supported work programs for welfare mothers, income maintenance pro-
grams for low-income families, and employment-training programs for poor
adults. Among her early research was a pathbreaking study of the effects of
income on the school performance and educational achievement of children
in low-income families. More recently she has conducted methodological
research on use of experimental and nonexperimental study designs as well
as demonstration and policy research on children's issues. Formerly, she
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was senior vice president of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and di-
rected the research activities in its Princeton office. She has served on
numerous national advisory panels, including the National Research Council's
Panel on Child Care Policy.
ROBERT E. PAPILLA has been president of Montgomery Community Col-
lege in Rockville, Maryland, since 1979. Previously he taught chemistry
and served as dean and college vice president with Cuyahoga Community
College. His degrees have been awarded from Kent State University, the
University of New Hampshire, and Florida State University. He is a mem-
ber of the National Advisory Committee for the Education and Human Re-
sources Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He is a commis-
sioner with the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association
of Colleges and Schools and a board member and treasurer of the Council
on Postsecondary Accreditation. He was a member of the Committee to
Study the Role of Allied Health Personnel of the Institute of Medicine and
the Committee on Mandatory Retirement in Higher Education of the Na-
tional Research Council.
THOMAS D. PARKER is senior vice president for finance and administra-
tion at The Education Resources Institute, a private not-for-profit corpora-
tion in Boston, bringing financial institutions and educators together to as-
sist students and parents nationwide in financing education. He has written
and consulted widely on education administration and finance issues, on
philanthropy, and on issues of access to higher education; he teaches the
history of higher education and higher education administration at Boston
University. He has worked as an administrator at Harvard University and
Bennington College. He served in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Education, at the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. He has
an A.B. degree (magna cum laude) from Harvard College and an M.A. in
teaching and an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
S. JAMES PRESS is professor of statistics at the University of California,
Riverside, and was chair of the Department of Statistics from 1977 to 1984.
He received a B.A. from New York University, an M.S. from the University
of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.
He previously taught at the University of Chicago, the University of British
Columbia, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Yale University.
His research interests have centered on multivariate statistical analysis, Bayesian
statistics, econometrics, and applications of statistics to the physical and
social sciences. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
the American Statistical Association, the Royal Statistical Society, and the
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American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of
the International Statistical Institute, the Bernoulli Society, and the New
York Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Committee on Na-
tional Statistics of the National Research Council for six years and has
served on several other panels of the National Research Council.
BRIAN ROWAN is associate professor of education at the University of
Michigan. He received a B.A. in sociology from Rutgers University and a
Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University. He was previously senior
research director at Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and De-
velopment and chair of the Department of Educational Administration at
Michigan State University. His research focuses on issues related to school
organization and effectiveness, education policy, and applied social research.
He is a member of the U.S. Department of Education's Program Effective-
ness Panel, serves on the editorial boards of the American Educational
Research Journal, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis and is a frequent consultant to educational
research and development organizations.
JUDITH M. TANUR is professor in the Department of Sociology of the
State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received a B.S. in
psychology and an M.A. in mathematical statistics from Columbia Univer-
sity and a Ph.D. in sociology from SUNY at Stony Brook. She is a fellow
of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the International
Statistical Institute. She edited the International Encyclopedia of Statistics,
Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, and Questions about Questions: In-
quiries Into the Cognitive Bases of Surveys. She was previously a member
of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council,
serving on its Panels on Statistics for Family Assistance Programs and on
Quality Control for Family Assistance Programs and chairing its Advanced
Research Seminar on Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology. She was
cochair of the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Cognition
and Survey Research and book review editor of the Journal of the American
Statistical Association. She has been an American Statistical Association/
National Science Foundation/Bureau of Labor Statistics senior research fel-
low and currently serves as a co-editor of Chance.
SHARON L. THOMAS PARROTT is vice president for governmental rela-
tions at DeVRY Inc. in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. DeVRY Inc. is a North
American degree-granting higher education system funded with private in-
vestment capital. Thomas Parrott received B.A. and M.A. degrees in his-
tory from the University of Illinois. She previously held faculty and admin-
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istrative positions at George Williams College in Illinois. She also served
with the U.S. Department of Education in the student aid area. She has
served in numerous elected and appointed positions with the National Asso-
ciation of Student Financial Aid Administrators including two terms as a
member of the board of directors. She is currently serving as vice president
of the College Board/College Scholarship Service Committee on Standards
of Ability to Pay.
MARGARET WEIDENHAMER (Consultant) is a consultant based in Ar-
lington, Virginia. She majored in social psychology as an undergraduate
and graduate student at the University of Maryland. While a federal gov-
ernment employee conducting a wide variety of surveys and providing tech-
nical advice on other agency projects, she had extensive experience in de-
signing, testing, and evaluating data collection forms.
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